Nebraska

Broadband Office

Name: Nebraska PSC
Location: Administrative agency
Enabling Act: NE Rev. Stat. §86-1303 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

**Broadband Serviceable Locations** ¹
Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
798,448	722,500	31,752	44,196

**Adoption** ²
Overall	Wireline
92.1%	75.4%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$405,281,070	$128,740,178	$1,692,658,984	$12,909,846

BEAD

Total Allocation: $405,281,070

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $12,909,846³
Planning Grant: $598,745.97
Link to Plan: Digital Equity Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Omaha Tribe of Nebraska Fiber-Based Middle Mile Grant

Applicant: Omaha Tribe of Nebraska
Total Cost: $36,374,797
NTIA Award: $36,374,797

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴: $1,692,658,984
For Broadband: $1,505,855 (0.1%)

CPF

Total: $128,740,178
For Broadband: $87,543,321 (68%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

Broadband Bridge Program

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $17.7M (2021); $20.3M (2022)
Grantees: 2021 Grantees; 2022 Grantees; 2023 Applicants
Rules: 2021 Order; 2022 Order; 2023 Order

Recent Programs⁶

ARPA Capital Projects Fund Grants

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $40M (District 1); $40M (District 3) [proposed allocation of $35 million to District 2 for grants to multipurpose community facilities that are located in qualified census tracts within a city of the metropolitan class]
Grantees: District 1; District 3 [villages and cities of the second class within District 3]
Rules: 2023 Program Guidelines; 2023 Application Form

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs⁷

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities	No (dark fiber leasing only)
Municipal Electric Utilities	No (wholesale only)
Electric Cooperatives	No (wholesale only)
Investor-Owned Utilities	n/a

Footnotes

FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated July 25, 2024).↩︎
ACS 1-Year Data, 2023, 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 March 2023.↩︎
Updated as of September 2022.↩︎