Mississippi

Broadband Office

Name: Broadband Expansion and Accessibility of Mississippi (BEAM)
Location: Dept. of Finance & Administration
Enabling Act: MS Code Ann. § 77-19-1 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

1,312,693

1,005,031

39,407

268,255
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

84.3%

61.7%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$1,203,561,563

$162,609,351

$2,678,515,558

$20,004,451

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $1,203,561,563
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
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: $20,004,4513
Planning Grant: $875,585.61
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No IIJA Middle Mile awardees

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$2,678,515,558

For Broadband
$673,172 (0.03%)

CPF

Total

$162,609,351

For Broadband
$151,500,000 (93%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Capital Projects Fund Program [formal name TBA]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $151,400,000
Grantees: TBA
Rules: NOFO (June 2023)

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

Yes
Municipal Electric Utilities

No
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.↩︎