Satellite internet companies dominated Colorado’s revised broadband plan that aims to finally get the rest of the state’s households online and up to modern-day internet speeds, the Colorado Broadband Office announced late Friday.

Amazon’s upcoming Project Kuiper and Space X’s Starlink satellite services bid on pretty much every eligible location for a chance to qualify for some part of the state’s $826.5 million allocation as part of the federal Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment , or BEAD program.

The LEOs, short for low earth orbit services, won 50% of the state’s approximately 90,000 eligible locations of homes and buildings deemed to have no internet or subpar speeds of less than 100 mbps down, and 20 mbps up.

Public comments on the preliminary winners will be accepted un

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