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

  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 March 2023.↩︎

  7. Updated as of September 2022.↩︎