Rhode Island
Broadband Office
Name: Office of Broadband & Digital Equity
Location: Commerce Corporation
Enabling Act: n/a
Connectivity Snapshot
Federal Funding
Summary
BEAD | CPF | ARPA | DE |
---|---|---|---|
$108,718,821 |
$112,291,189 |
$1,647,176,946 |
$10,124,91 |
BEAD
Overview
Total Allocation: $108,718,821
Current Status: Funding Allocated
Five-Year Plan
Status: Unreleased
Due: 8/18/23
Link: n/a
Initial Proposal
Status: Unreleased
Due: 12/23/23
Link: n/a
Final Proposal
Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a
Digital Equity
State Grants
Capacity Grant: $10,124,913
Planning Grant: $506,100.07
Link to Plan: n/a
Summary of Uses: n/a
NTIA Grant Program
TBD
Middle Mile
No IIJA Middle Mile awardees
ARPA
SLFRF
- Total4
-
$1,647,176,946
- For Broadband
- $1,000,000 (0.1%)
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
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.↩︎