The Institute for Local Self Reliance has a program I try to watch regularly. This week they talked a bit about the potential impact of BEAD changes on the states and specifically talked about Minnesota. They pointed out that 22,000 of the 76,000 BEAD eligible locations got no bid at all and 10 fiber companies dropped out of bidding. (Map of the 76,000 locations at right.) The podcaster noted that part of the problem may have the lack of early response to the RDOF results and not being more aggressive in trying to make more addresses BEAD eligible on the front end. That being said, I think Minnesota is one of the states that is pushing back on changes now by encouraging letters of support from community leaders to include with the final proposal when submitted.