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North Carolina State Broadband Office

North Carolina State Broadband Office Overview

North Carolina Broadband Grant Award Status

BEAD: $1.53 B

North Carolina 5 Year Plan
Initial Proposal v1
Challenge Window
4
Initial Proposal v2
5
Application Window
6
Awards Announced

Treasury Capital Projects Fund: $273.6 M

Treasury Approved
2
Application Window
3
Awards Announced

Broadband Office Name:
Department of Information Technology

North Carolina Broadband Director

Angie Bailey

About Department of Information Technology

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. 

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Nate Denny was named as the deputy secretary of the Broadband and Digital Equity Division by NCDIT Secretary Jim Weaver in May 2021. Denny previously served as NCDIT's chief of staff and legislative director. Before joining NCDIT in 2017, Denny was a presidential appointee at the U.S. General Services Administration in Washington, D.C., where he served as deputy chief of staff, director of intergovernmental affairs and senior advisor for congressional affairs.
 

Angie Bailey was appointed director of the Broadband Infrastructure Office in December 2021. She served as interim director since August 2021 and was previously director of NC Broadband within the N.C. Department of Commerce. She has more than 20 years of experience in broadband planning and development in North Carolina, primarily at the state level.

North Carolina Broadband Articles

North Carolina Broadband Investment Maps

North Carolina broadband investment map ready strength rank

North Carolina Map of Ready Strength Rank

North Carolina broadband investment map yield on cost

North Carolina Yield on Cost Maps

North Carolina broadband investment pricing and competition map

North Carolina Pricing & Competition Map

North Carolina broadband investment map business establishments

North Carolina Map of Business Establishments in Underserved Areas

North Carolina broadband investment map small business establishments

North Carolina Small Business Establishments Map

North Carolina broadband investment map REC coverage

North Carolina Rural Electric Cooperative (REC) Coverage Map

North Carolina broadband investment map anchor institutions

North Carolina Map of Anchor Institutions

North Carolina broadband investment map provider coverage

North Carolina Provider Coverage Maps

North Carolina broadband investment map BSLs

Map of North Carolina Broadband Serviceable Locations