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BEAD key dates: Alabama

Current status: 63 projects announced as "preliminarily approved" — no final award list

Last checked: 24 September 2026. Every entry below is pinned to a named source; caveats travel with the entry. If a date matters to your application or deployment plans, verify it with the source linked.

  1. Gov. Ivey announces 63 "preliminarily approved" projects: ~US$460m, 15 providers, ~92,000 locations

    We carry the state's own label — "preliminarily approved" — until Alabama publishes a final award list. Per-provider totals announced; the largest: Comcast US$132.36m, AT&T US$72.96m.

    Source: Office of Governor Kay Ivey — view the source

  2. No date published

    Finalisation of the preliminarily approved awards

    ADECA says finalisation follows NTIA approval, with contract development under way. No date published.

    Source: Office of Governor Kay Ivey — view the source

More BEAD dates

  • National key-dates calendar — upcoming obligations and national milestones.
  • Texas — 17 final awards published (provider-level); all BEAD disbursements frozen pending audit
  • Louisiana — 12 announced Benefit-of-the-Bargain awards; first state to sign subgrant agreements
  • California — Proposal ratified 17 September 2026; award agreement not yet signed; no final award list published
  • Florida — "Provisional awardees" only — no final award list, no contracts in FACTS
  • North Carolina — "Approved BEAD Awards" published — but the state's own caveat says all awards are contingent until contracted in 2026
  • Missouri — Final Proposal NTIA-approved; the state's BEAD page still labels awards "provisional"
  • Colorado — US$103m provisional award rescinded after fraud referral; locations to be rebid

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