BUT - we still don't know what these alternatives will look like or when they'll be revealed 🧐. 👏 The announcement is a significant step forward. This comes after hundreds of ISPs, broadband experts, and local leaders raised concerns that the rule risks shutting out small and community-focused providers from the Biden Administration's signature broadband investment program. 🗞 Evan Feinman, Director of the $42b Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, has announced that the US Department of Commerce, NTIA is working on changes to the program's Letter of Credit Requirement.