North Dakota

Broadband Office

Name: ND IT Department
Location: Governor’s Office
Enabling Act: n/a

Connectivity Snapshot

**Broadband Serviceable Locations** ¹
Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
346,404	336,559	1,858	7,987

**Adoption** ²
Overall	Wireline
88.1%	76.1%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$130,162,815	$113,276,228	$1,248,033,248	$9,812,567

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $130,162,815
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 9/4/23
Link: 5-Year Plan

Initial Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: 12/27/23
Link: n/a

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $9,812,567³
Planning Grant: $516,380.00
Link to Plan: n/a
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Dakota Carrier Network Statewide Middle Mile Backbone Upgrade

Applicant: DCN, LLC
Total Cost: $43,801,277
NTIA Award: $19,710,574

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴: $1,248,033,248
For Broadband: n/a (n/a)

CPF

Total: $113,276,228
For Broadband: $113,276,228 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

Broadband North Dakota [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $45M [representing 40% of the state’s CPF allocation]
Grantees: n/a [it appears the state has begun to award grants as of Feb. 2023; info on proposed project areas that were subject to the state’s challenge process is available here]
Rules: Program Info available here

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs⁶

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities	Yes
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.↩︎