Virginia

Broadband Office

Name: VA Office of Broadband
Location: Dept. of Housing & Community Development (DHCD)
Enabling Act: VA Code §2.2-205.2 [setting forth the duties of the state’s Chief Broadband Advisor]

Connectivity Snapshot

**Broadband Serviceable Locations** ¹
Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
2,914,430	2,471,253	61,365	381,812

**Adoption** ²
Overall	Wireline
90.9%	76.1%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$1,481,489,573	$219,812,354	$7,112,537,966	$35,486,230

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $1,481,489,573
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 9/4/23
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: $35,486,230³
Planning Grant: $1,222,076.45
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No IIJA Middle Mile awardees

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴: $7,112,537,966
For Broadband: $552,657,105 (7.8%)

CPF

Total: $219,812,354
For Broadband: $219,812,354 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

VA Telecommunications Initiative (VATI)

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $219.8M [CPF]
Grantees: TBD
Rules: FY2023 Guidelines [Draft FY 2024 guidelines, which will presumably apply to CPF grants, will be released in April and finalized in May]

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

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.↩︎