Arkansas
Broadband Office
Name: AR State Broadband Office
Location: AR Dept. of Commerce
Enabling Act: A.C.A. § 25-4-125 (2013, amended 2019)
Connectivity Snapshot
Federal Funding
Summary
BEAD | CPF | ARPA | DE |
---|---|---|---|
$1,024,303,994 |
$158,086,576 |
$2,552,162,893 |
$19,830,137 |
BEAD
Overview
Total Allocation: $1,024,303,994
Current Status: Funding Allocated
Five-Year Plan
Status: Drafted
Due: 9/4/23
Link: 5-Year Plan
Initial Proposal
Status: Unreleased
Due: 12/27/23
Link: n/a
Final Proposal
Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a
Digital Equity
State Grants
Capacity Grant: $19,830,1373
Planning Grant: $843,673.10
Link to Plan: n/a
Summary of Uses: n/a
NTIA Grant Program
TBD
Middle Mile
No IIJA Middle Mile awardees
ARPA
SLFRF
- Total4
-
$2,552,162,893
- For Broadband
- $258,299,858 (10.1%)
CPF
- Total
-
$158,086,576
- For Broadband
- $158,086,576 (100%)
- Program Link
State Funding
Recent Programs5
AR Rural Connect
Agency: AR EDC & Broadband Office
Allocation: $550M (as of Feb. 2023)
Grantees: List of grantees through end of 2022; List of Feb. 2023 awardees
Rules: Rules
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, 2021, 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.↩︎