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
Federal Funding
Summary
BEAD | CPF | ARPA | DE |
---|---|---|---|
$3,312,616,455 |
$500,475,163 |
$26,041,139,757 |
$104,810,261 |
BEAD
Overview
Total Allocation: $3,312,616,455
Current Status: Funding Allocated
Five-Year Plan
Status: Drafted
Due: 9/16/23
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: $104,810,2613
Planning Grant: $3,110,148.10
Link to Plan: n/a
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
-
$26,041,139,757
- For Broadband
- $110,657,373 (0.4%)
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 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.↩︎