BEAD Grant Application Website

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program: BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice notes that unlicensed fixed wireless providers that serve BEAD-eligible locations must be offered an opportunity to provide evidence that BEAD funding is not required for the locations they serve. A table of BEAD-eligible locations in Michigan that are shown on the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Data Collection map to have service available from an unlicensed fixed wireless provider can be found here.  The following providers are listed one or more times on that table:

• 123.NET Inc
• Air Advantage
• Allband Communications Cooperative
• CMS Internet
• DMCI Broadband LLC
• ISP Managemen Inc
• Kwikbit
• Lakeland Internet
• M3 Wireless Inc
• NCATS
• Northern Broadband
• Ridge Tower Network LLC
• SyncWave

These providers must notify MIHI no later than June 16, 2025, if they intend to submit evidence that BEAD funding is not required for the locations they report serving. This notification must be sent by email to LEO-MIHighSpeedInternet@michigan.gov with the subject line “ULFW BEAD Evidence.”

The BEAD Program is designed to ensure that every home, business, and community anchor institution in Michigan will have access to a high-speed internet connection by awarding grants to build infrastructure to locations that need it. BEAD-eligible locations were identified through the BEAD State Challenge Process and can be found on the BEAD Locations page below.

Michigan’s BEAD Program has a two-step application process for each round: pre-registration and project application. Resources to support you in reviewing Michigan’s BEAD-eligible locations, completing pre-registration, and completing project applications are available below.

Round #1 Key Pre-Registration Dates: Every potential applicant completed pre-registration with information about their organization. Pre-registration for round #1 initially opened on June 28, 2024. Pre-registration submissions made by 4:00 pm Eastern on Thursday, January 9, 2025 were responded to with requests for clarification if additional or different information was needed. Pre-registration submissions received between 4:01 pm Eastern on Thursday, January 9, 2025 and before 4:00 pm Eastern on Monday, March 10, 2025, were reviewed exactly as submitted.

Round #1 Key Project Application Dates: After completing pre-registration, organizations were invited to submit one or more project applications. Project applications were accepted between 9:00 am Eastern on Thursday, January 9, 2025 and 4:00 pm Eastern on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.

Round 1