Texas

Broadband Office

Name: TX Broadband Development Office
Location: Office of the Comptroller
Enabling Act: TX Gov’t Code § 490I.0101 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

**Broadband Serviceable Locations** ¹
Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
10,094,490	9,565,653	148,542	380,295

**Adoption** ²
Overall	Wireline
92.5%	75.3%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$3,312,616,455	$500,475,163	$26,098,417,432	$104,810,261

BEAD

Total Allocation: $3,312,616,455

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $104,810,261³
Planning Grant: $3,110,148.10
Link to Plan: Digital Equity Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Concho Valley Rural Reach – Middle Mile Project

Applicant: Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Total Cost: $6,688,443
NTIA Award: $3,276,668

Zayo El Paso to Dallas Middle Mile

Applicant: Zayo, LLC
Total Cost: $91,887,375
NTIA Award: $55,132,425

Zayo Dallas to Atlanta Middle Mile

Applicant: Zayo, LLC
Total Cost: $19,554,630
NTIA Award: $13,688,241

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴: $26,098,417,432
For Broadband: $46,500,262 (0.2%)

CPF

Total: $500,475,163
For Broadband: $365,346,869 (73%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

Bringing Online Opportunities to Texans (BOOT) [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $120M in Rd. 1 [TX received $363.8M in CPF funds from Treasury in Jan. 2023, representing 73% of its total allotment]
Grantees: TBD
Rules: Relevant materials, including the BOOT NOFO and agreement template, are available here

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs⁶

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities	Yes
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 07, 2025).↩︎
ACS 1-Year Data, 2023, 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.↩︎