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