A $42.5 billion program to expand high-speed internet in the US is facing new uncertainty after a government watchdog found that the Trump administration improperly overhauled it in June.
The Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program had cleared its last hurdles, and was beginning to distribute funds to states to help build fiber networks and pay for satellite services. But on Tuesday, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a ruling that could open the…

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