Utah

Broadband Office

Name: UT Broadband Center
Location: Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity
Enabling Act: UT Code Ann. § 63N-17-201 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

**Broadband Serviceable Locations** ¹
Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
1,007,123	937,483	28,109	41,531

**Adoption** ²
Overall	Wireline
93.6%	81.6%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$317,399,742	$137,895,435	$2,453,968,510	$16,276,082

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $317,399,742
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: $16,276,082³
Planning Grant: $676,684.53
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No IIJA Middle Mile awardees

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴: $2,453,968,510
For Broadband: $3,400,295 (0.1%)

CPF

Total: $137,895,435
For Broadband: $9,652,680 (7%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

Rural Last Mile Grant Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $10M [Treasury allocated this first tranche in Dec. 2022, representing only 7% of the state’s total CPF allotment of $138M]
Grantees: TBD [previous awardees available here]
Rules: TBD [Terms and Conditions applied to previous grant funding awarded via the same program but using ARPA SFRF is available here; additional program information is available here]

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs⁶

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities	Yes (subject to rules)
Municipal Electric Utilities	Yes
Electric Cooperatives	Yes
Investor-Owned Utilities	Yes

Footnotes

FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 24, 2023).↩︎
ACS 1-Year Data, 2022, US Census Bureau.↩︎
ACLP Overview of IIJA Digital Equity Grant Programs.↩︎
Broadband infrastructure is one of several applicable uses of SLFRF funds.↩︎
Updated as of March 2023.↩︎
Updated as of September 2022.↩︎