Indiana

Broadband Office

Name: IN Broadband Office
Location: Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) [administers broadband grant programs]
Enabling Act: IC 4-4-41-8 [creating the office and detailing its responsibilities and authority vis-à-vis bolstering broadband]

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations ¹

Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
2,719,928	2,417,131	104,716	198,081

Adoption ²

Overall	Wireline
89.3%	71.4%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$868,109,930	$203,132,429	$5,639,683,717	$29,465,713

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $868,109,930
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 9/16/23
Link: 5-Year Plan

Initial Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: 12/27/23
Link: n/a

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $29,465,713³
Planning Grant: $842,235.00
Link to Plan: n/a
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Delaware and Grant Middle Mile Connect

Applicant: Indiana Michigan Power Company Inc.
Total Cost: $23,415,008
NTIA Award: $11,684,089

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴

$5,639,683,717

For Broadband

$70,601,192 (1.3%)

CPF

Total

$203,132,429

For Broadband

$203,132,429 (100%)

Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

Next Level Connections (NLC) Broadband Grant Program [CPF]

Agency: OCRA; Broadband Office
Allocation: $270M
Grantees: Rd. 1; Rd. 2; Rd. 3 [interactive dashboard available here]
Rules: Program information available here

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 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.