Idaho

Broadband Office

Name: Idaho Broadband Advisory Board
Location: Dept. of Commerce
Enabling Act: ID Stat. §67-4761

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations ¹

Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
717,927	583,069	53,625	81,233

Adoption ²

Overall	Wireline
92.1%	73.4%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$583,256,250	$128,518,323	$1,652,815,712	$13,896,968

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $583,256,250
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Completed
Due: 8/11/23
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: $13,896,968³
Planning Grant: $564,706.00
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

West Idaho – Canyon, Owyhee and Ada County

Applicant: Syringa Networks LLC
Total Cost: $10,744,863
NTIA Award: $6,209,733

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴

$1,652,815,712

For Broadband

$933,042 (0.1%)

CPF

Total

$128,518,323

For Broadband

$120,000,000 (93%)

Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

Idaho Broadband Fund

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $26.3M
Grantees: Announcement
Rules: REP [preliminary info re forthcoming CPF program available here]

Idaho CPF Broadband Infrastrutcure Grant Program

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $120M
Grantees: Applications Submitted (Awardees TBA September/October 2023)
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.