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BEAD key-dates calendar

BEAD key dates: California

Current status: Proposal ratified 17 September 2026; award agreement not yet signed; no final award list published

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. — End date computed from the stated six-month mechanism; not a separately published deadline

    Six-month subgrant-signing clock ends

    Once California acted on its revised Final Proposal, the state had six months to enter subgrant agreements with providers — a CPUC-attributed mechanism.

    Source: Fierce Network — view the source

  2. — As reported

    Governor's decision on the grant agreement due

    Signing the grant agreement — and any court challenge over the disputed conditions — rests with Gov. Newsom, with a decision due by end of September 2026.

    Source: CPUC (via Communications Daily) — view the source

  3. CPUC votes 5–0 to ratify California's BEAD proposal

    The CPUC ratified the revised, NTIA-approved Final Proposal amid debate over "Condition 50" — federal terms advocates say would block California's net-neutrality law for 14 years.

    Source: CPUC (via Communications Daily) — view the source

  4. — As reported; single trade-press source — verify before acting on it

    NTIA issues California's US$1.42bn BEAD award with disputed conditions

    NTIA reportedly issued the US$1.42bn award with conditions limiting the state's affordability and net-neutrality enforcement.

    Source: Techdirt (citing Stanford Law's Barbara van Schewick) — view the source

  5. — As reported

    NTIA approves California's Final Proposal (49th state)

    The approved plan: US$1.42bn for 270,571 locations — 52.9% fibre, 27% LEO satellite, 20.1% fixed wireless. With California approved, only Illinois awaited approval.

    Source: NTIA (via Fierce Network) — view the source

  6. CPUC finalises BEAD plan; Resolution T-17898 adopted

    The CPUC finalized the state's BEAD plan and adopted Resolution T-17898, requesting approval to submit the Final Proposal to NTIA.

    Source: California Public Utilities Commission — 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
  • 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"
  • Alabama — 63 projects announced as "preliminarily approved" — no final award list
  • Colorado — US$103m provisional award rescinded after fraud referral; locations to be rebid

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