Louisiana

Broadband Office

Name: Office of Broadband Development & Connectivity (OBCD)
Location: Division of Administration
Enabling Act: LA Rev. Stat. §51:1361 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

**Broadband Serviceable Locations** ¹
Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
1,869,966	1,494,446	78,696	296,824

**Adoption** ²
Overall	Wireline
85.4%	67.3%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$1,355,554,553	$176,741,864	$4,650,896,077	$25,245,724

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $1,355,554,553
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 5/28/23
Link: 5-Year Plan

Initial Proposal

Status: Vol. 1 Final, Vol. 2 Drafted
Due: 12/27/23
Link: Initial Proposal Vol. 1 Vol. 2

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

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

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No IIJA Middle Mile awardees

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴: $4,650,896,077
For Broadband: $23,611,514 (0.5%)

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

FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 24, 2023).↩︎
ACS 1-Year Data, 2021, 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.↩︎