Vermont

Broadband Office

Name: VT Community Broadband Board
Location: Dept. of Public Service (DPS)
Enabling Act: 30 VT Stat. Ann. § 8081 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

276,454

216,196

27,867

32,391
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

89.2%

76.7%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$228,913,019

$113,056,440

$1,241,297,252

$9,564,095

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $228,913,019
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Drafted
Due: 9/16/23
Link: 5-Year Plan

Initial Proposal

Status: Drafted
Due: 12/27/23
Link: Initial Proposal Vol. 1 Vol. 2

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $9,564,0953
Planning Grant: $518,154.20
Link to Plan: n/a
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No Middle Mile IIJA awardees

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$1,241,297,252

For Broadband
$151,866,267 (12.2%)

CPF

Total

$113,056,440

For Broadband
$90,000,000 (80%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Community Broadband Construction Grant Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $90M [allocated by Treasury in Oct. 2022, representing 80% of the state’s $113M CPF allotment]
Grantees: Grant Awards
Rules: Relevant info 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

  1. FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 24, 2023).↩︎

  2. ACS 1-Year Data, 2021, 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.↩︎