North Dakota

Broadband Office

Name: ND IT Department
Location: Governor’s Office
Enabling Act: n/a

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations 1
Total Served Underserved Unserved

339,068

335,096

1,030

2,942
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

89.0%

76.9%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$130,162,815

$113,276,228

$1,248,033,248

$9,812,567

BEAD

Total Allocation: $130,162,815

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $9,812,5673
Planning Grant: $516,380.00
Link to Plan: Digital Equity Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Dakota Carrier Network Statewide Middle Mile Backbone Upgrade

Applicant: DCN, LLC
Total Cost: $43,801,277
NTIA Award: $19,710,574

ARPA

SLFRF

Total4

$1,248,033,248

For Broadband
n/a (n/a)

CPF

Total

$113,276,228

For Broadband
$113,276,228 (100%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs5

Broadband North Dakota [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $45M [representing 40% of the state’s CPF allocation]
Grantees: n/a [it appears the state has begun to award grants as of Feb. 2023; info on proposed project areas that were subject to the state’s challenge process is available here]
Rules: Program Info available here

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 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.↩︎