Tennessee

Broadband Office

Name: TN Broadband Initiative
Location: Dept. of Economic & Community Development (DECD)
Enabling Act: TN Code Ann. § 4-3-708

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

2,737,865

2,598,032

36,808

103,025
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

91.0%

75.3%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$813,319,680

$215,218,861

$5,936,046,576

$30,121,102

BEAD

Total Allocation: $813,319,680

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $30,121,1023
Planning Grant: $1,083,814.06
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

$5,936,046,576

For Broadband
$344,229,493 (5.8%)

CPF

Total

$215,218,861

For Broadband
$185,088,220 (86%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Last Mile Connection Program & Middle Mile Build Out Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $185M [Allocated by Treasury in Feb. 2023]
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.↩︎