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This funding is separate from further federal funding in the pipeline under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) for deployment and adoption of broadband. The IIJA authorized the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, which will allocate $42.45 billion among American states and territories. The BEAD Program is managed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. BEAD’s principal focus is on deploying broadband service to unserved and underserved locations. Unserved is defined as those without any broadband service at all or with broadband service offering speeds below 25 Mbps downstream/3 Mbps upstream. Underserved is defined as those without broadband service offering speeds of 100 Mbps downstream/20 Mbps upstream.