Wisconsin

Broadband Office

Name: WI Broadband Office
Location: PSC
Enabling Act: WI Stat. § 196.504

Connectivity Snapshot

**Broadband Serviceable Locations** ¹
Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
2,312,849	1,937,825	194,916	180,108

**Adoption** ²
Overall	Wireline
91.6%	75.1%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$1,055,823,574	$189,354,516	$4,830,759,697	$26,991,765

BEAD

Total Allocation: $1,055,823,574

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $26,991,765³
Planning Grant: $952,197.63
Link to Plan: Digital Equity Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Tri-State Fiber Deployment Project (TSFDP)

Applicant: Dairyland Power Cooperative
Total Cost: $30,387,914
NTIA Award: $14,890,078

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴: $4,830,759,697
For Broadband: $105,849,970 (2.2%)

CPF

Total: $189,354,516
For Broadband: $40,000,000 (21%)
Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

Broadband Infrastructure Projects Program [CPF]

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $40M [from first allocation made by Treasury in October 2022, representing 21% of the state’s $189M allotment of CPF funds]
Grantees: TBD
Rules: TBD

ARPA Broadband Access Grants

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $100M [from state’s ARPA SLFRF funding]
Grantees: List
Rules: Program Documents

State Broadband Expansion Grants

Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: Varies by year
Grantees: Yearly Award Summaries
Rules: Program Documents

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

FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated July 25, 2024).↩︎
ACS 1-Year Data, 2023, 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.↩︎