Wyoming

Broadband Office

Name: WY Broadband Office
Location: WY Business Council
Enabling Act: WY Stat. § 9-12-1501 et seq.

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

261,019

201,402

20,403

39,214
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

90.3%

69.9%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$347,877,921

$109,467,449

$1,247,267,479

$9,401,526

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $347,877,921
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Unreleased
Due: 9/26/23
Link: n/a

Initial Proposal

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

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $9,401,5263
Planning Grant: $530,006.00
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

No IIJA Middle Mile awardees

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$1,247,267,479

For Broadband
$0 (0.0%)

CPF

Total

$109,467,449

For Broadband
$70,059,167 (64%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Connect Wyoming [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $70.5M [allocated by Treasury in Feb. 2023, representing 64% of the state’s $109M allotment of CPF funds]
Grantees: TBD
Rules: Program Rules

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 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.↩︎