North Carolina

Broadband Office

Name: Division of Broadband & Digital Equity/Broadband Infrastructure Office
Location: Dept. of Information Technology
Enabling Act: n/a

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations ¹

Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
4,249,391	3,755,312	125,952	368,127

Adoption ²

Overall	Wireline
90.2%	76.6%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$1,532,999,481	$273,583,159	$8,816,125,221	$42,186,617

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $1,532,999,481
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 8/18/23
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: $42,186,617³
Planning Grant: $1,415,614.32
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

High-speed Economies for Rural Opportunity (HERO): NC Broadband Project

Applicant: MCNC
Total Cost: $18,959,598
NTIA Award: $11,186,163

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴

$8,816,125,221

For Broadband

$251,102,803 (2.9%)

CPF

Total

$273,583,159

For Broadband

$177,829,053 (65%)

Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

Completing Access to Broadband (CAB) Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $400M total [$177.7M via CPF tranche 1]
Grantees: TBA
Rules: 2022 Guidance

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs⁶

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities	Yes (subject to rules)
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.