Today, DED’s Office of Broadband Development released new tools for understanding upcoming broadband deployment plans at broadbandmap.mo.gov.
The new “eligibility” view of the map shows the eligibility of individual addresses for funding from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, the next major round of broadband funding in the state of Missouri. Eligibility determinations depend on inputs that include service reported to the location through the Federal Communication Commission’s Broadband Data Collection, records of previous broadband funding programs, and the results of Missouri’s state challenge process.
Eligibility determinations are not final until Missouri’s final submission of BEAD-eligible locations is approved by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the federal agency responsible for the BEAD program. Potential BEAD applicants can also use this view of the map to see how BEAD-eligible locations have been grouped into application areas for the purpose of awarding BEAD funding.
The underlying data displayed in this eligibility view, including the eligibility of each location and the application area each eligible location is associated with, is available for download at ded.mo.gov/office-broadband-development/mapping.
