Deadline: 4-Aug-22
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) is pleased to announce the Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant Program to provide financial resources that help make the business case for new and existing providers to invest in building broadband infrastructure into unserved and underserved areas of the state.
Funding Information
- Total $95 million available
- Maximum grant amount: $5 million
Eligible Project Areas
- Broadband development projects located in unserved or underserved areas are eligible.
- An unserved area is an area of Minnesota in which households or businesses lack access to wire-line broadband service at speeds that meet the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) threshold of 25 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 3 megabits per second (Mbps) upload.
- An underserved area is an area of Minnesota in which households or businesses do receive service at or above the FCC threshold of 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up, but lack access to wire-line broadband service at speeds of 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants for this program are an incorporated business or partnership, a political subdivision, an Indian tribe, a Minnesota nonprofit organization organized under chapter 317A, a Minnesota cooperative association organized under chapter 308A or 308B, or a Minnesota limited liability corporation organized under chapter 322C for the purpose of expanding broadband access.
For more information, visit DEED.
For more information, visit https://mn.gov/deed/programs-services/broadband/grant-program/