Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program in Texas

What a one-award BEAD–Texas join means

CFDA 11.035 is titled BROADBAND EQUITY, ACCESS, AND DEPLOYMENT PROGRAM. Crossed with Texas place of performance, obligations sum to $3,312,616,455 on 1 award. The national BEAD hub includes other states. Texas’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,312,616,455 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of locations passed.

One award is a concentrated allocation pattern: BEAD state allocations often post as a single large assistance instrument to a state broadband office rather than thousands of last-mile contracts. The join does not name an ISP, list counties, or count unserved addresses. Packet facts stop at $3,312,616,455, 1 award, TX, and 11.035. Correlation is not causation. One BEAD instrument carrying the entire $3,312,616,455 cell is a state-allocation pattern, not one internet provider and not one completed fiber route named in the facts.

BEAD is not a universal-service or ACP row

The catalog title names Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program. Other connectivity catalogs are different rows and are not mixed into $3,312,616,455. Facts available: Texas, CFDA 11.035, $3,312,616,455, 1 award. Buildout maps, speed tests, and provider names are not in the facts.

With 1 award, the implied mean equals the cell total: $3,312,616,455. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1 is not a count of fiber routes or households.

Questions

How much BEAD funding is obligated in Texas?

USAspending records $3,312,616,455 in CFDA 11.035 obligations with Texas place of performance on 1 award. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not a last-mile contract list. Keep BEAD and Texas together when citing $3,312,616,455. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 1 award mean 1 internet provider received the money?

No. 1 is a USAspending award-record count, not a provider or household census. The entire $3,312,616,455 sits on that one instrument. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $3.31 billion Texas’s full federal broadband spend?

No. $3,312,616,455 is only the 11.035 × Texas cell. Other connectivity catalogs appear on separate Texas program pages. Nationwide 11.035 is not limited to Texas. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 11.035 × TX pair. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Has this BEAD money already been spent on fiber?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name ISPs. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live BEAD–Texas table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.