Arkansas

Broadband Office

Name: AR State Broadband Office
Location: AR Dept. of Commerce
Enabling Act: A.C.A. § 25-4-125 (2013, amended 2019)

Connectivity Snapshot

**Broadband Serviceable Locations** ¹
Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
1,355,685	1,046,147	93,921	215,617

**Adoption** ²
Overall	Wireline
86.8%	67.1%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$1,024,303,994	$158,086,576	$2,552,162,893	$19,830,137

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $1,024,303,994
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 9/4/23
Link: 5-Year Plan

Initial Proposal

Status: 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: $19,830,137³
Planning Grant: $843,673.10
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No IIJA Middle Mile awardees

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴: $2,552,162,893
For Broadband: $260,302,825 (10.2%)

CPF

Total: $158,086,576
For Broadband: $158,086,576 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

AR Rural Connect

Agency: AR EDC & Broadband Office
Allocation: $550M (as of Feb. 2023)
Grantees: List of grantees through end of 2022; List of Feb. 2023 awardees
Rules: Rules

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs⁶

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities	Yes (subject to rules)
Municipal Electric Utilities	Yes
Electric Cooperatives	Yes (guardrails)
Investor-Owned Utilities	Yes

Footnotes

FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 24, 2023).↩︎
ACS 1-Year Data, 2022, US Census Bureau.↩︎
ACLP Overview of IIJA Digital Equity Grant Programs.↩︎
Broadband infrastructure is one of several applicable uses of SLFRF funds.↩︎
Updated as of March 2023.↩︎
Updated as of September 2022.↩︎