Utah

Broadband Office

Name: UT Broadband Center
Location: Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity
Enabling Act: UT Code Ann. § 63N-17-201 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

1,022,072

962,214

19,728

40,130
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

94.1%

81.2%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$317,399,742

$137,895,435

$2,453,968,510

$16,276,082

BEAD

Total Allocation: $317,399,742

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $16,276,0823
Planning Grant: $676,684.53
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

$2,453,968,510

For Broadband
$3,400,295 (0.1%)

CPF

Total

$137,895,435

For Broadband
$9,652,680 (7%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Rural Last Mile Grant Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $10M [Treasury allocated this first tranche in Dec. 2022, representing only 7% of the state’s total CPF allotment of $138M]
Grantees: TBD [previous awardees available here]
Rules: TBD [Terms and Conditions applied to previous grant funding awarded via the same program but using ARPA SFRF is available here; additional program information is available here]

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs6

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities

Yes (subject to rules)
Municipal Electric Utilities

Yes
Electric Cooperatives

Yes
Investor-Owned Utilities

Yes

Footnotes

  1. FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated July 25, 2024).↩︎

  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.↩︎