The Colorado Sun: Approximately 44% of Colorado’s eligible households with subpar or no internet access are primed to get satellite broadband service from a company that doesn’t offer it yet: Amazon.

Amazon’s Project Kuiper, which is in the process of sending 3,200 satellites to low earth orbit, was preliminarily awarded $25.4 million in federal funds from the Colorado Broadband Office in a final proposal submitted last week. It’s part of the $42.5 billion Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment program, which Congress approved in 2021 as part of the Infrastructure Act.

Officials from Amazon declined to comment. But they shared a letter sent to the National Telecommunications Information Administration last fall about why its low earth orbit, or LEO, internet service should be a viable option at a time states were in the process of picking fiber-internet companies for their BEAD program.

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