South Carolina

Broadband Office

Name: SC Broadband Office
Location: Office of Reglatory Staff
Enabling Act: FY23 Budget Proviso 73.

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

2,126,065

1,927,754

78,733

119,578
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

87.8%

72.4%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$551,535,983

$185,765,655

$4,097,812,164

$25,087,130

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $551,535,983
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

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

Initial Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: 12/27/23
Link: n/a

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $25,087,1303
Planning Grant: $953,478.05
Link to Plan: n/a
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No IIJA Middle Mile Recipients

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$4,097,812,164

For Broadband
$142,073,053 (3.5%)

CPF

Total

$185,765,655

For Broadband
$185,765,655 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

MAIN St Grant Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $185.8M [Awarded by Treasury on 3/7/23]
Grantees: TBD [List of submitted applications here]
Rules: Application Guidelines available here

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

Yes (subject to rules)
Municipal Electric Utilities

Yes
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.↩︎