Arizona

Broadband Office

Name: Arizona Broadband
Location: AZ Commerce Authority
Enabling Act: AZ Rev. Stat. §41-1115 (2022)

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

2,700,753

2,432,208

124,276

144,269

Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

92.3%

75.8%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$993,112,231

$190,220,002

$6,823,914,910

$29,182,249

BEAD

Total Allocation: $993,112,231

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $29,182,2493
Planning Grant: $1,116,110.78
Link to Plan: Digital Equity Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Pima County Regional Middle Mile Fiber Optic Ring

Applicant: Pima County
Total Cost: $43,283,954
NTIA Award: $30,281,277

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$6,823,914,910

For Broadband
$258,352,533 (3.8%)

CPF

Total

$190,220,002

For Broadband
$98,914,401 (52%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

AZ Broadband Development Grant Program

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $100M
Grantees: List
Rules: n/a

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

Yes

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 July 25, 2024).↩︎

  2. ACS 1-Year Data, 2023, 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.↩︎