The FCC Office of Economics and Analytics, in conjunction with the Wireline Competition Bureau, released the Broadband Funding Map. The map, mandated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, requires each federal agency that administers a broadband program to compile funding project data for its own programs and report the data for inclusion on the map.
The four agencies—FCC, NTIA, USDA and Treasury—cover 10 programs and 1,038 projects with $11,358,781,791 of total funding obligated. The map includes funding summaries from the FCC's Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase II and Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF), as well as NTIA's broadband infrastructure program (BIP) and tribal broadband connectivity program, the USDA’s ReConnect Program and telephone loan program, and the Treasury Department's Capital Projects Fund.
The Broadband Funding Map allows users to identify, search and filter federal funding programs by the ISP receiving funding, the duration timeline, the number of locations included in the project and the download and upload speeds. In addition to depicting where broadband funding exists, the map contains broadband availability data as of June 30, 2022—the same data that currently appears on the National Broadband Map.
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