BEAD · Capital Projects Fund · ReConnect
Grant-funded builds,
fully staffed.
We open grant-funded fiber markets with local teams, fully staffed from day one. Grant money builds the network, and penetration still has to be won at the door. We specialize in building local teams, in new builds and in markets that need more penetration. We have been on the doors five days after an agreement was signed, and you pay per completed install.
How we open your market
We staff what we take.
Reps, team leaders, sales agencies and internet service providers reach out to work with RCLX every week. We open a market with established teams and then add individual local reps.
We have been on the doors five days after an agreement was signed. We have put reps on the doors in every market we have taken.
Send your homes passed.
Tell us your homes passed and we will tell you what your market can support. Before we accept a market, we measure it. If we cannot staff a market properly, we say so up front. We have turned providers down for that reason.
Local teams from day one.
In a market that can support a local team, we open with established teams and add local reps on top of them, all of them local. We recruit far more reps than a market needs, so it stays staffed when someone leaves.
Smaller builds.
Where a market is too small to support a local team, we bring in traveling reps, house them, and keep them there for as long as the turf can hold more installs.
Paid per completed install.
You pay per completed install. You do not need to build anything. We work in your CRM and your sales app, or from an export of your sales.
As your master dealer, we answer for every rep we put in your market.
The build clock
The money builds the network.
With BEAD plans approved in all 56 states and territories in August 2026, and subgrantee agreements being signed through the fall, grant-funded fiber builds now run on a four-year build clock.
Four years to build and serve.
A BEAD subgrantee must deploy the network and begin offering service to each customer that wants it no later than four years after it receives the subgrant, and the state may extend that deadline. NTIA’s guidance defines a standard installation as service within 10 business days of a request, and a subgrantee must be able to deliver one to every customer in its project area.
Every subgrantee must offer a low-cost option, and since June 2025 eligibility for it follows the FCC Lifeline program. Broadband adoption programs are an eligible use of BEAD money.
The Capital Projects Fund deadline.
Treasury says Capital Projects Fund money covers costs through December 31, 2026. Broadband projects approved for an extension have until June 30, 2027 to reach substantial completion, which means delivering service to end users.
Recipients report their pricing to Treasury, including the affordability offering. NRECA reported in May 2026 that the fund has backed 78 co-ops across 26 states.
Five years to build.
Under the FY2024 ReConnect funding notice, a project must be fully built within five years of the date funds are first released.
That notice set no subscriber requirement and no marketing-plan requirement. It lists a market survey and subscriber projections as eligible pre-application costs.
None of these programs signs a subscriber. That is the work we staff.
Penetration
Where new networks start.
We specialize in markets that need more penetration, and a new grant-funded build is one. NRECA says over 200 electric co-ops are in broadband, reaching almost 2 million rural homes and businesses, and 63 co-ops in 27 states have received provisional BEAD awards.
The first years run lower.
In NRTC’s 2025 survey of 78 electric co-ops that have deployed broadband, co-ops live under two years averaged 37% penetration to date. The median across all of them was 48% residential and 32% business, and co-ops in business more than five years reported 52%. Of those co-ops, 90% saw more competition over the last three years.
About five years to fill.
The Fiber Broadband Association and RVA reported 11.8 million U.S. homes passed with fiber in 2025 and average penetration of 46.5% for primary passings. RVA’s CEO said it takes about five years after building and starting marketing for most homes passed to become connections.
The ACP has ended.
The FCC ended the Affordable Connectivity Program on June 1, 2024, after more than 23 million households had enrolled, and said Lifeline’s broadband benefit is not a replacement for it. New grant-funded builds are lighting up without the ACP discount that existed when many of these programs were designed.
At the door
Providers are taking it to the door.
On recent earnings calls, two public fiber providers named door-to-door as a driver of growth and penetration in their fiber markets.
On its third-quarter 2026 call, Shentel’s CEO said its five-year price guarantee and the expansion of its door-to-door sales channel have been key drivers of Glo Fiber growth. Glo Fiber penetration was still below 22%, against a 37% medium-term target.
On its second-quarter 2026 call, TDS Telecom’s CEO said the company had significantly expanded its door-to-door sales capacity, and tied it to presale penetration in the low 20% range in new fiber markets.
Straight answers
What providers ask.
How long does a BEAD subgrantee have to build?
Four years from the subgrant. By statute, a BEAD subgrantee must deploy the network and begin offering service to each customer that wants it no later than four years after it receives the subgrant, and the state may extend that deadline under listed conditions.
Can a co-op or municipal network start with one market?
Yes. You can start with one market. Tell us your homes passed and we will tell you what your market can support.
What if our build is too small for a local team?
Where a market is too small to support a local team, we bring in traveling reps, house them, and keep them there for as long as the turf can hold more installs.
How fast can you start?
We have been on the doors five days after an agreement was signed. The start date and the team that starts go in the agreement.
How do we pay you?
You pay per completed install.
Do your reps sell other providers in our market?
Reps assigned to your contract sell only your service in your market.
Sources
Every figure, with its date.
- NTIA, BEAD program page (all 56 Final Proposals approved), August 25, 2026.
- 47 U.S.C. 1702 (Cornell LII), BEAD statute, accessed November 2, 2026.
- NTIA, BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice training deck, June 13, 2025.
- Washington State Department of Commerce, Broadband office signs seven BEAD contracts, September 24, 2026.
- U.S. Treasury, Capital Projects Fund FAQs, May 6, 2026.
- Federal Register, ReConnect Program FY2024 funding notice, February 21, 2024.
- NRECA, Broadband issues and policy (items dated May 12 and September 18, 2026), accessed November 2, 2026.
- NRTC, REC Broadband Benchmarking Report, 2025 refresh, May 2025.
- Fiber Broadband Association, Fiber deployment highs for 2025, December 16, 2025.
- Fiber Broadband Association, U.S. fiber passings reach 100 million, April 15, 2026.
- FCC, Affordable Connectivity Program wind-down release, May 31, 2024.
- The Motley Fool (transcript), Shentel Q3 2026 earnings call, October 28, 2026.
- Investing.com (transcript), TDS Q2 2026 earnings call, August 7, 2026.
Earnings-call statements are quoted from third-party transcripts. Program rules are summarized from the program text; read the current notice for your award.