Rhode Island

Broadband Office

Name: Office of Broadband & Digital Equity
Location: Commerce Corporation
Enabling Act: n/a

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

339,770

336,184

581

3,005
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

92.9%

78.4%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$108,718,821

$112,291,189

$1,657,584,583

$10,124,91

BEAD

Total Allocation: $108,718,821

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $10,124,913
Planning Grant: $506,100.07
Link to Plan: Digital Equity Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No IIJA Middle Mile awardees

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$1,657,584,583

For Broadband
$444,825 (0.0%)

CPF

Total

$112,291,189

For Broadband
$112,291,189 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Broadband Infrastructure Investment Program

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $25M [CPF; additional funds from BEAD TBA]
Grantees: TBD
Rules: TBD

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

Yes
Municipal Electric Utilities

Yes
Electric Cooperatives

Yes
Investor-Owned Utilities

Yes

Footnotes

  1. FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 07, 2025).↩︎

  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 September 2022.↩︎