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

• Five Year Plan
• Initial Proposal

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.