WISPA Tells Colo. Fixed Wireless Deploys Faster

Colorado should revise its broadband roadmap with guidelines to maximize technology-neutral rules and prioritize low cost and speedy delivery, the Wireless Internet Service Provider Association said in comments Tuesday at the Colorado Office of Information Technology. NTIA’s broadband, equity, access and deployment (BEAD) program cites an “important role for fiber,” but the agency’s notice of funding opportunity lets states use funding for quickly deployable fixed wireless, WISPA said: “Fiber projects are often slow to deploy and are increasingly subject to delays related to supply chain-challenges and higher costs from rising inflation.”