South Carolina
Broadband Office
Name: SC Broadband Office
Location: Office of Reglatory Staff
Enabling Act: FY23 Budget Proviso 73.
Connectivity Snapshot
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
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.↩︎