North Carolina State Broadband Office
North Carolina Broadband Grant Award Status
BEAD: $1.53 B
Treasury Capital Projects Fund: $273.6 M
Broadband Office Name:
Department of Information Technology
North Carolina Broadband Director
Angie Bailey
About North Carolina Broadband Office
Funding for broadband:
The Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) Grant: The GREAT Grant provides grants to private providers of broadband services to deploy broadband service to unserved areas of the state.
Building a New Digital Economy (BAND-NC) Grant: The BAND-NC Grants are mini-grants to fund local digital inclusion projects to meet unmet community needs in North Carolina.
State Broadband Plan:
Connecting North Carolina State Broadband Plan
North Carolina officials estimate that at least 1.1 million of their state residents don't have access to broadband.
Governor Roy Cooper and the state legislature's digital equity plan invests nearly $1 billion in federal American Rescue Plan funds toward infrastructure access and digital literacy to close the digital gap.