Colorado

Broadband Office

Name: CO Broadband Office
Location: Governor’s Office of IT
Enabling Act: CO Rev. Sat. §24-37.5-903

Connectivity Snapshot

**Broadband Serviceable Locations** ¹
Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
1,947,842	1,707,325	91,055	149,462

**Adoption** ²
Overall	Wireline
93.2%	80%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$826,522,650	$170,751,674	$5,750,079,399	$24,516,536

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $826,522,650
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

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

Initial Proposal

Status: Submitted
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: $24,516,536³
Planning Grant: $897,119.02
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Pueblo Middle Mile Program

Applicant: BIF IV Intrepid Opco LLC
Total Cost: $4,631,407
NTIA Award: $2,710,971

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴: $5,750,079,399
For Broadband: $34,777,673 (0.6%)

CPF

Total: $170,751,674
For Broadband: $170,751,674 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

Advance CO Broadband Grant Program

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $162M CPF
Grantees: TBA
Rules: Guidelines

Broadband Deployment Fund

Agency: Broadband Deployment Board (per CO Rev. Stat. § 24-37.5-119)
Allocation: $64M
Grantees: 93 to date
Rules: Link to all relevant resources

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs⁶

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities	Yes (subject to rules)
Municipal Electric Utilities	Yes
Electric Cooperatives	Yes (middle-mile-only; gaurdrails)
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.↩︎