"We have worked really hard within the confines we've been given to create one of the most competitive, free-market-based, business-friendly types of programs," Arkansas broadband director Glen Howie told Telecompetitor.
"Our aims are two-fold: lowering the administrative burden for providers and letting them know we want competition in Arkansas," Howie said.
"We're ninth in the country per capita," he said. "We have a post-challenge process still subject to NTIA, with 84,000 locations that are BEAD eligible, and that puts us in a great spot."
"But when we went to CPF [the U.S. Treasury Capital Projects Fund], the state defined project footprints on a county-wide basis, and providers would bid on those."
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