Arkansas State Broadband Office

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Arkansas Broadband Grant Award Status

Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment : ^$1.4 B
Anticipated BEAD funding. Affecting factors include network speed and population.

Arkansas 5 Year Plan

NTIA Approved

Application Window

Awards Announced

Treasury Capital Projects Fund: ^$158.1 M
Anticipated or Awarded CPF funding.

Treasury Approved

Application Window

Awards Announced

Arkansas Broadband Audit

Access crucial data about broadband performance, broadband coverage, demographic insights, spatial information, and more at the state, county, city, or tribal level with the Arkansas Broadband Audit

Arkansas Broadband Director

Glen Howie

Broadband Office Name:
Arkansas State Broadband Office

Parent Department:
Arkansas Division of Information Systems

Agency Website

Broadband Office Website

Broadband Map

Plan Site

Goals

About Arkansas State Broadband Office

The Arkansas Department of Commerce's Broadband Office coordinates the state's broadband related activities. The Arkansas Rural Connect Grant Program provides funding to assist in the deployment or improvement of broadband infrastructure into unserved or improvement to underserved communities.

The state's broadband goal, as articulated in its 2019 broadband plan, is to get universal access to broadband at speeds of 25Mbps upload /3Mbps download by 2022.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Institute for Digital Health and Innovation manages the state's rural broadband grants.

The Arkansas legislature also created the Rural Broadband I.D. Expenses Trust Fund. Based at the UAMS Office of Digital Health and Innovation, this grant program provides one-time grants for ISPs to meet certain requirements for future qualification in USDA and FCC federal grant programs.