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# NTIA Broadband Programs Announce Grants to Tackle Last-Mile Infrastructure
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/ntia-broadband-programs-announce-grants-to-tackle-last-mile-infrastructure/
- Published: 2022-03-03T15:01:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T06:16:43.000Z
- Description: Recent policy talks have pushed for more focus on middle-mile with future funding from infrastructure bill money.
- Author: T.J. York
- Tags: BIP, Tribal, #with-siderail, Funding, Consolidated Communications, Featured, Ketchikan Indian Community, Pinoleville Pomo Nation, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-02-01 09:59, #added-preview-divider

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2022 ­– The Broadband Infrastructure Program of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced this past week more than $277 million across over 13 projects primarily targeting last-mile infrastructure expected to connect 133,000 unserved households across 12 states and one U.S. territory.

The commerce agency’s Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program also announced Wednesday a commitment of $1 million to projects focused on connectivity in tribal regions, including the Pinoleville Pomo Nation in California and the Ketchikan Indian Community in Alaska. That program has now disbursed $4.8 million for 10 grants.

The larger funding amount will go to projects in Georgia, Guam, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and West Virginia. In a separate release, Consolidated Communications announced its projects in Maine would receive $18.3 million from the agency’s programs.

As the NTIA’s programs have continued to approve grants on a rolling basis, policy discussions such as the agency’s infrastructure bill [listening sessions](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/digital-equity-the-focus-at-ntias-listening-session-on-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act/) have focused on advocacy for [middle-mile](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/ntia-pressed-on-existing-middle-mile-connections-at-infrastructure-listening-session/) funding.

The recently announced projects largely focus on fiber access and additionally target some [anchor institutions](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/fcc-equity-council-approves-working-group-to-broaden-definition-of-anchor-institution/) to increase connectivity, with some middle-mile or transport funding.