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Credit unions are eligible to participate the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, a\u00a0$42.5 billion program<\/a>\u00a0to expand high-speech internet access, under a\u00a0waiver issued<\/a>\u00a0by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).<\/p>\n The original language for internet service providers (ISPs) seeking credit as part of the grant process from financial institutions to expand capacity only mentioned a \u201cU.S. bank,\u201d but the waiver updates the language to include credit unions insured by NCUA.<\/p>\n \u201cWe thank the NTIA for issuing this waiver, which ensures credit unions can continue to do what they do best: meet their community\u2019s needs, whatever they may be,\u201d said CUNA Deputy Chief Advocacy Officer for Federal Government Affairs Jason Stverak. \u201cCredit unions share policymakers\u2019 goal of expanding affordable, reliable high-speed internet access, and many have relationships with entities that serve their communities already in place.\u201d<\/p>\n Under the BEAD Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), ISPs in all U.S. states and territories are eligible for grants to \u201cbuild and deploy high-speed internet networks\u201d and to \u201cto operate those networks for years to come,\u201d with a focus on rural areas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|||||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|||||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”] Credit unions are eligible to participate the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, a\u00a0$42.5 billion program\u00a0to expand high-speech internet access, under a\u00a0waiver issued\u00a0by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The original language for internet service providers (ISPs) seeking credit as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}