Florida

Broadband Office

Name: FL Office of Broadband
Location: Dept. of Economic Opportunity
Enabling Act: FL Stat. §288.9961

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

7,289,579

6,883,169

134,815

271,595
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

91.7%

77.9%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$1,169,947,393

$366,036,869

$15,895,372,914

$74,370,386

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $1,169,947,393
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Released
Due: 8/26/23
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: $74,370,3863
Planning Grant: $2,407,223.57
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

WANRack-mm-FL2

Applicant: WANRack
Total Cost: $5,738,951
NTIA Award: $2,812,086

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$15,895,372,914

For Broadband
$31,057,929 (0.2%)

CPF

Total

$366,036,869

For Broadband
$248,000,000 (68%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Broadband Opportunity Program

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $226M
Grantees: Round 1 list; Round 2 list; Round 3 list
Rules: Issued Nov. 2022

Broadband Infrastructure Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $247.8M (CPF)
Grantees: Awards
Rules: Program Guidelines

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.↩︎