Alabama

Broadband Office

Name: AL Digital Expansion Division
Location: ADECA (funds issued through the Expansion Division)
Enabling Act: AL Code 1975 §41-23-273 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

2,177,636

1,749,798

96,636

331,202
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

87.4%

68.3%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$1,401,221,902

$191,887,857

$3,829,718,751

$27,428,599

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $1,401,221,902
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Final
Due: 9/8/23
Link: 5-Year Plan

Initial Proposal

Status: V1 Final, V2 Drafted
Due: 12/27/23
Link: Initial Proposal Vol. 1 Vol. 2

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $27,428,5993
Planning Grant: $981,081.12
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Connect Alabama

Applicant: Troy Cablevision, Inc.
Total Cost: $52,610,443
NTIA Award: $26,299,961

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$3,829,718,751

For Broadband
$205,342 (0.0%)

CPF

Total

$191,887,857

For Broadband
$191,887,857 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Broadband Accessibility Fund

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $88.6M
Grantees: 2023 Grantees (all previous grantees)
Rules: 2023 Program Guide; Sample Grantee Agreement; other relevent docs available here

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

Yes
Municipal Electric Utilities

Yes
Electric Cooperatives

Yes
Investor-Owned Utilities

Yes

Footnotes

  1. FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 24, 2023).↩︎

  2. ACS 1-Year Data, 2022, US Census Bureau.↩︎

  3. ACLP Overview of IIJA Digital Equity Grant Programs.↩︎

  4. Broadband infrastructure is one of several applicable uses of SLFRF funds.↩︎

  5. Updated as of March 2023.↩︎

  6. Updated as of September 2022.↩︎