Colorado
Broadband Office
Name: CO Broadband Office
Location: Governor’s Office of IT
Enabling Act: CO Rev. Sat. §24-37.5-903
Connectivity Snapshot
Federal Funding
Summary
BEAD | CPF | ARPA | DE |
---|---|---|---|
$826,522,650 |
$170,751,674 |
$5,750,079,399 |
$24,516,536 |
BEAD
Overview
Total Allocation: $826,522,650
Current Status: Funding Allocated
Five-Year Plan
Status: Drafted
Due: 9/4/23
Link: 5-Year Plan
Initial Proposal
Status: Drafted
Due: 12/27/23
Link: Initial Proposal Vol. 1
Final Proposal
Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a
Digital Equity
State Grants
Capacity Grant: $24,516,5363
Planning Grant: $897,119.02
Link to Plan: n/a
Summary of Uses: n/a
NTIA Grant Program
TBD
Middle Mile
Pueblo Middle Mile Program
Applicant: BIF IV Intrepid Opco LLC
Total Cost: $4,631,407
NTIA Award: $2,710,971
ARPA
SLFRF
- Total4
-
$5,750,079,399
- For Broadband
- $43,081,470 (0.7%)
CPF
- Total
-
$170,751,674
- For Broadband
- $170,751,674 (100%)
- Program Link
State Funding
Recent Programs5
Advance CO Broadband Grant Program
Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $162M CPF
Grantees: TBA
Rules: Guidelines
Broadband Deployment Fund
Agency: Broadband Deployment Board (per CO Rev. Stat. § 24-37.5-119)
Allocation: $64M
Grantees: 93 to date
Rules: Link to all relevant resources
Policies
Non-Traditional ISPs6
Pemitted to Offer Broadband
Municipalities | Yes (subject to rules) |
Municipal Electric Utilities | Yes |
Electric Cooperatives | Yes (middle-mile-only; gaurdrails) |
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.↩︎