Georgia

Broadband Office

Name: Georgia Broadband Program
Location: GA Technology Authority (GTA) & Dept. of Community Affairs (DCA)
Enabling Act: O.C.G.A. §50-40-1 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

3,803,290

3,499,868

100,855

202,567
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

92.4%

77.3%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$1,307,214,371

$259,875,389

$8,313,583,860

$42,940,664

BEAD

Total Allocation: $1,307,214,371

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $42,940,6643
Planning Grant: $1,429,212.96
Link to Plan: Digital Equity Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

West and Northwest Georgia Middle Mile Broadband Backbone

Applicant: DoveTel Communications, LLC. dba SyncGlobal Telecom
Total Cost: $32,246,574
NTIA Award: $12,234,350

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$8,313,583,860

For Broadband
$425,146,547 (5.1%)

CPF

Total

$259,875,389

For Broadband
$250,000,000 (96%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

CPF Grants Program (Rd. 1)

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $234M
Grantees: Round 1 grantees (awarded Jan. 2023)
Rules: Round 1 NOFO; Round 2 NOFO

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.↩︎