Pennsylvania

Broadband Office

Name: PA Broadband Development Authority
Location: Dept. of Community & Economic Development
Enabling Act: 65 PA CSA § 6101 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

4,871,282

4,538,149

54,048

279,085
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

88.8%

75.9%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$1,161,778,272

$278,793,641

$13,260,092,134

$47,534,051

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $1,161,778,272
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

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

Initial Proposal

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

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $47,534,0513
Planning Grant: $1,604,131.73
Link to Plan: n/a
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No IIJA Middle Mile awardees

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$13,260,092,134

For Broadband
$46,442,245 (0.4%)

CPF

Total

$278,793,641

For Broadband
$200,731,422 (72%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Broadband Infrastructure Program (BIP)

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $200M CPF
Grantees: TBD
Rules: Application Guidelines available here [Jun. 2023]

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

No
Municipal Electric Utilities

No
Electric Cooperatives

Yes (guardrails)
Investor-Owned Utilities

Yes

Footnotes

  1. FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 24, 2023).↩︎

  2. ACS 1-Year Data, 2021, 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.↩︎