Wisconsin

Broadband Office

Name: WI Broadband Office
Location: PSC
Enabling Act: WI Stat. § 196.504

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations ¹

Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
2,304,161	1,840,276	217,772	246,113

Adoption ²

Overall	Wireline
90.6%	74.4%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$1,055,823,574	$189,354,516	$4,830,759,697	$26,991,765

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $1,055,823,574
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Submitted
Due: 9/8/23
Link: 5-Year Plan

Initial Proposal

Status: V1 Final, V2 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: $26,991,765³
Planning Grant: $952,197.63
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Tri-State Fiber Deployment Project (TSFDP)

Applicant: Dairyland Power Cooperative
Total Cost: $30,387,914
NTIA Award: $14,890,078

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴

$4,830,759,697

For Broadband

$105,849,970 (2.2%)

CPF

Total

$189,354,516

For Broadband

$40,000,000 (21%)

Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

Broadband Infrastructure Projects Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $40M [from first allocation made by Treasury in October 2022, representing 21% of the state’s $189M allotment of CPF funds]
Grantees: TBD
Rules: TBD

ARPA Broadband Access Grants

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $100M [from state’s ARPA SLFRF funding]
Grantees: List
Rules: Program Documents

State Broadband Expansion Grants

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: Varies by year
Grantees: Yearly Award Summaries
Rules: Program Documents

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

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.