 Bring your own device to Appalachian Wireless and get up to $300 in bill credits. If you're looking to switch to the Big Blue Appalachian Wireless Network, there's no better time than right now to bring in your device, because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. SOAR is partnering with the Appalachian Regional Commission to get the word out about the Broadband Equity Access Program and Deployment and Digital Equity Act Fund that will become available later in 2023. BEAD is an acronym that stands for the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Act. So I guess it's been almost a year, Congress passed some legislation and included in that legislation was $65 billion for some different broadband initiatives. Of that $65 billion, $42.25 billion was allocated to the BEAD Program, which essentially is a massive grant pool to fund the deployment of networks. The goal of the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program is to assist in providing 50 underconnected communities across Appalachia with the funds necessary to set up broadband connections. It's a huge opportunity nonetheless, and if you look at the language of the law in the legislation, there's a huge push for community involvement, right? I mean, the whole point is that they want to use these funds to reach unserved areas, right? First, unserved being communities that don't have access to 25 megabits per second down and 3 megabits per second up, which used to be the federal definition of broadband that's since moved up to 120, which is now what they consider underserved, right? But it's to get unserved areas, fiber internet. For more information about SOAR and their upcoming projects, you can visit shaping our Appalachian region on Facebook. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelcie Dean.