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

335,365

332,470

586

2,309
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

90.8%

78.0%

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

  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.↩︎