Montana

Broadband Office

Name: ConnectMT
Location: Dept. of Administration
Enabling Act: MT Code Ann. § 90-1-601 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

**Broadband Serviceable Locations** ¹
Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
481,305	327,273	49,499	104,533

**Adoption** ²
Overall	Wireline
88.8%	68.9%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$628,973,799	$119,934,533	$1,246,901,425	$12,061,973

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $628,973,799
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 9/8/23
Link: 5-Year Plan

Initial Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: 12/27/23
Link: Initial Proposal Vol. 1

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $12,061,973³
Planning Grant: $601,301.36
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Sapphire Ring

Applicant: Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Total Cost: $16,795,000
NTIA Award: $11,756,500

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴: $1,246,901,425
For Broadband: $0 (0.0%)

CPF

Total: $119,934,533
For Broadband: $119,934,533 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

ConnectMT [primarily ARPA SLFRF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $309M
Grantees: Awardee Info. from Dec. 2022
Rules: Application Guide (for 2022 grant round); [click here for more resources]

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs⁶

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities	Yes (subject to rules)
Municipal Electric Utilities	Yes
Electric Cooperatives	Yes
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.↩︎