Minnesota

Broadband Office

Name: Office of Broadband Development
Location: Dept. of Employment & Economic Opportunity (DEED)
Enabling Act: MN Stat. § 116J.39

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

2,096,415

1,924,608

72,442

99,365

Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

92.2%

77.0%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$651,839,368

$180,702,620

$4,950,871,391

$24,633,359

BEAD

Total Allocation: $651,839,368

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $24,633,3593
Planning Grant: $881,905.10
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

$4,950,871,391

For Broadband
$12,843,636 (0.3%)

CPF

Total

$180,702,620

For Broadband
$126,491,834 (70%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $67M [most recent round; up to $30M can be used for a Low-Density Pilot Program]
Grantees: 2023 Grantees
Rules: FAQ [all other application information and details re previous grantees available here]

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

Yes (unserved areas only)

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.↩︎