Colorado

Broadband Office

Name: CO Broadband Office
Location: Governor’s Office of IT
Enabling Act: CO Rev. Sat. §24-37.5-903

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

1,947,842

1,707,325

91,055

149,462
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

93.0%

92.2%

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

  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.↩︎