Tech Policy Institute: NTIA's New BEAD Rules Make Efficiency ‘Pointless’
NTIA's new BEAD guidance effectively created an "incentive" for states to spend as much of their allocated funding as possible on connections, "regardless of cost-effectiveness, as long as they meet minimal criteria," wrote Technology Policy Institute President Scott Wallsten and…
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Gregory Rosston, Stanford University's public policy program director, in a blog Tuesday. Calling the effort "pointless," Wallsten and Rosston said NTIA made it "possible for states to spend the money more efficiently" but then "removed incentives for them to try." They called on NTIA to let states "keep savings for other broadband priorities or impose a cap on spending per location."