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
753,038	640,244	40,510	72,284

**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

FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 07, 2025).↩︎
ACS 1-Year Data, 2023, 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.↩︎