Georgia

Broadband Office

Name: Georgia Broadband Program
Location: GA Technology Authority (GTA) & Dept. of Community Affairs (DCA)
Enabling Act: O.C.G.A. §50-40-1 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

3,753,962

3,346,364

115,405

292,193
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

91.2%

76.7%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$1,307,214,371

$259,875,389

$8,313,583,860

$42,940,664

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $1,307,214,371
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 8/18/23
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: $42,940,6643
Planning Grant: $1,429,212.96
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

West and Northwest Georgia Middle Mile Broadband Backbone

Applicant: DoveTel Communications, LLC. dba SyncGlobal Telecom
Total Cost: $32,246,574
NTIA Award: $12,234,350

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$8,313,583,860

For Broadband
$425,146,547 (5.1%)

CPF

Total

$259,875,389

For Broadband
$250,000,000 (96%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

CPF Grants Program (Rd. 1)

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $234M
Grantees: Round 1 grantees (awarded Jan. 2023)
Rules: Round 1 NOFO; Round 2 NOFO

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

Yes
Municipal Electric Utilities

Yes
Electric Cooperatives

Yes (guardrails)
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.↩︎