Massachusetts

Broadband Office

Name: MA Broadband Institute
Location: MA Technology Collaborative
Enabling Act: MA Stat. 40J § 6B

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

1,960,600

1,946,472

3,360

10,768
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

93.9%

81.9%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$147,422,464

$175,362,478

$8,591,475,766

$25,734,282

BEAD

Total Allocation: $147,422,464

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $25,734,2823
Planning Grant: $1,003,763.61
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

$8,591,475,766

For Broadband
$1,574,990 (0.0%)

CPF

Total

$175,362,478

For Broadband
$145,000,000 (83%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Broadband Infrastructure Gap Networks Grant Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $145M [allocated by Treasury in Oct. 2022; representing 83% of the state’s CPF allocation]
Grantees: n/a
Rules: 2023 Report

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.↩︎