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Despite an overhaul to the BEAD program, Virginia will use most of its funds for fiber installations, not satellite. In the ...
Evan Feinman is Gov. Ralph Northam’s chief broadband adviser and executive director of the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission. Contact him at efeinman@revitalizeva.org.
"Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington," wrote Evan Feinman ...
Evan Feinman, the former director of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, or BEAD, which provides grants to expand internet access across the country, condemned the efforts of the ...
Three states — Louisiana, Nevada and Delaware — have finalized their plans under BEAD, so any pivot could disrupt their efforts, said Evan Feinman, who ran the BEAD program before resigning ...
Until March 16, Feinman was the director of BEAD, a $42.5 billion fund passed as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021.
Officials have asked whether funding will continue or if changes will be made to its requirements. These concerns were highlighted when BEAD Program Director Evan Feinman resigned from his role on ...
But Evan Feinman, who oversaw a government internet expansion project during the Biden administration, said that compared to satellite connections, fiber internet lines might have higher up-front ...
It’s true that Starlink has proven to be a godsend for many US users who've only had access to slow internet options. But Feinman says the BEAD Program was on the precipice of funding much ...
The Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission’s Evan Feinman did not recoup $210,000 Chuck Lessin owed the state, according to a report from the Office of the State Inspector General. Feinman ...