Idaho

Broadband Office

Name: Idaho Broadband Advisory Board
Location: Dept. of Commerce
Enabling Act: ID Stat. §67-4761

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

744,730

618,869

47,208

78,653

Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

92.8%

73.1%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$583,256,250

$128,518,323

$1,652,815,712

$13,896,968

BEAD

Total Allocation: $583,256,250

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $13,896,9683
Planning Grant: $564,706.00
Link to Plan: Digital Equity Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

West Idaho – Canyon, Owyhee and Ada County

Applicant: Syringa Networks LLC
Total Cost: $10,744,863
NTIA Award: $6,209,733

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$1,652,815,712

For Broadband
$933,042 (0.1%)

CPF

Total

$128,518,323

For Broadband
$120,000,000 (93%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Idaho Broadband Fund

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $26.3M
Grantees: Announcement
Rules: REP [preliminary info re forthcoming CPF program available here]

Idaho CPF Broadband Infrastrutcure Grant Program

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $120M
Grantees: Applications Submitted (Awardees TBA September/October 2023)
Rules: Program Guidelines

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

Yes

Municipal Electric Utilities

Yes

Electric Cooperatives

Yes

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.↩︎