Indiana

Broadband Office

Name: IN Broadband Office
Location: Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) [administers broadband grant programs]
Enabling Act: IC 4-4-41-8 [creating the office and detailing its responsibilities and authority vis-à-vis bolstering broadband]

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

2,719,928

2,417,131

104,716

198,081
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

90.1%

71.6%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$868,109,930

$203,132,429

$5,639,683,717

$29,465,713

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $868,109,930
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 9/16/23
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: $29,465,7133
Planning Grant: $842,235.00
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Delaware and Grant Middle Mile Connect

Applicant: Indiana Michigan Power Company Inc.
Total Cost: $23,415,008
NTIA Award: $11,684,089

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$5,639,683,717

For Broadband
$46,520,042 (0.8%)

CPF

Total

$203,132,429

For Broadband
$203,132,429 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Next Level Connections (NLC) Broadband Grant Program [CPF]

Agency: OCRA; Broadband Office
Allocation: $270M
Grantees: Rd. 1; Rd. 2; Rd. 3 [interactive dashboard available here]
Rules: Program information available here

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.↩︎