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

2,604,096

2,285,361

141,415

177,320
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

91.4%

77.4%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$993,112,231

$190,220,002

$6,812,511,413

$29,182,249

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $993,112,231
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 9/8/2023
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: $29,182,2493
Planning Grant: $1,116,110.78
Link to Plan: n/a
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

$6,812,511,413

For Broadband
$266,200,000 (3.9%)

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 May 24, 2023).↩︎

  2. ACS 1-Year Data, 2021, 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.↩︎