Broadband Subgrant Transparency Register

PROBLEM: NTIA's 6 June 2025 BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice replaced the fiber-preference framework with a technology-neutral, lowest-cost 'Benefit of the Bargain' round (satellite, fixed wireless, and unlicensed technologies competing with fiber), rescinded prior preliminary awards, and required new final proposals by 4 Sept 2025. On 25 Aug 2026 NTIA approved the last (Illinois) of all 56 state/territorial Final Proposals, unlocking the $42.45B program for deployment; on 3 Sept 2026 NTIA opened a supplemental round for newly identified unserved locations. There is no transparency register for how subgrants are selected, or how coverage-map challenges are decided.

SOLUTION: A broadband subgrant transparency register: every subgrant logged with technology chosen, cost, locations covered, and challenge outcomes — so $42.45B of public money is spent in the open.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — NTIA BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice, 6 June 2025; NTIA approval of all 56 Final Proposals, 25 Aug 2026 (Stateside Associates: $18.2B planned spend to connect 3.79M locations); supplemental round opened 3 Sept 2026. 3GPP Release 19 functionally frozen Dec 2025 is DOCUMENTED (3GPP record); the Sixth Circuit net-neutrality vacatur (2 Jan 2025, Ohio Telecom Ass'n v. FCC) is DOCUMENTED (court opinion).