Maryland

Broadband Office

Name: Office of Statewide Broadband
Location: Dept. of Housing & Community Development (HCD)
Enabling Act: MD Code, Housing & Community Development, § 6.5-101 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

1,848,205

1,799,072

17,839

31,294
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

92.9%

79.2%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$267,738,401

$171,223,815

$5,954,383,552

$24,761,104

BEAD

Total Allocation: $267,738,401

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $24,761,1043
Planning Grant: $966,659.11
Link to Plan: Digital Equity Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

BGE Underground Fiber Project

Applicant: Baltimore Gas & Electric
Total Cost: $30,889,370
NTIA Award: $15,438,845

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$5,954,383,552

For Broadband
$177,312,225 (3%)

CPF

Total

$171,223,815

For Broadband
$94,173,098 (55%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Maryland Network Infrastructure Grant Program [CPF]

Agency: Office of Statewide Broadband; HCD
Allocation: $95M
Grantees: 2023 Awardees
Rules: Application Guide (Oct. 2022)

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 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.↩︎