North Carolina

Broadband Office

Name: Division of Broadband & Digital Equity/Broadband Infrastructure Office
Location: Dept. of Information Technology
Enabling Act: n/a

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

4,329,011

3,945,781

146,761

236,469
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

91.5%

77.1%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$1,532,999,481

$273,583,159

$8,816,125,221

$42,186,617

BEAD

Total Allocation: $1,532,999,481

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $42,186,6173
Planning Grant: $1,415,614.32
Link to Plan: Digital Equity Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

High-speed Economies for Rural Opportunity (HERO): NC Broadband Project

Applicant: MCNC
Total Cost: $18,959,598
NTIA Award: $11,186,163

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$8,816,125,221

For Broadband
$251,102,803 (2.9%)

CPF

Total

$273,583,159

For Broadband
$177,829,053 (65%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Completing Access to Broadband (CAB) Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $400M total [$177.7M via CPF tranche 1]
Grantees: TBA
Rules: 2022 Guidance

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

  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.↩︎