Ohio

Broadband Office

Name: Broadband Ohio
Location: Department of Development
Enabling Act: OH Rev. Code Ann. §122.40 et seq. [creating the state’s broadband grant program]

Connectivity Snapshot

**Broadband Serviceable Locations** ¹
Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
4,500,626	4,210,950	108,072	181,604

**Adoption** ²
Overall	Wireline
88.9%	75.5%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$793,688,108	$268,578,200	$10,412,084,469	$44,269,754

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $793,688,108
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 7/10/23
Link: 5-Year Plan

Initial Proposal

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

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $44,269,754³
Planning Grant: $1,470,550.76
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Appalachian Ohio Middle Mile Expansion

Applicant: Horizon Telcom Inc.
Total Cost: $48,275,817
NTIA Award: $27,540,554

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴: $10,412,084,469
For Broadband: $14,642,623 (0.1%)

CPF

Total: $268,578,200
For Broadband: $162,500,000 (61%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

Broadband Expansion Grant Program

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: : $232M [Rd. 1]
Grantees: List [Rd. 1 grantees]
Rules: Link [Broadband Ohio is reviewing feedback regarding the first round and will release proposed changes to the program in the first part of 2023]

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.↩︎