Louisiana

Broadband Office

Name: ConnectLA
Location: Division of Administration
Enabling Act: LA Rev. Stat. §51:1361 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

1,873,678

1,592,145

69,264

212,269
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

88.0%

68.2%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$1,355,554,553

$176,741,864

$4,715,088,039

$25,245,724

BEAD

Total Allocation: $1,355,554,553

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $25,245,7243
Planning Grant: $941,542.28
Link to Plan: Digital Equity Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No IIJA Middle Mile awardees

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$4,715,088,039

For Broadband
$6,769,292 (0.1%)

CPF

Total

$176,741,864

For Broadband
$176,741,864 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

GUMBO [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $168M+
Grantees: List (as of July 2022)
Rules: LA Rev. Stat. §51:2370.1 et seq.; OBDC Notice of Intent

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

Yes (subject to rules)
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.↩︎