The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it had granted 23 grants as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP). The total amount of these new allocations exceeded $601.6 million, bringing the total allocation of the project to 94 tribal entities to $1.35 billion. With funds provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of the United States, these grants will expand high-speed Internet network deployment and digital skills training to improve education, employment and health care in tribal areas.

The new grants will be distributed in 15 states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.

These funds are part of the Biden administration’s commitment to state interaction, as well as its efforts to connect all Americans, including Native Americans and Alaska Natives, to affordable and reliable high-speed Internet.

TBCP is an appropriation project of nearly 3 billion US dollars and is a part of the “Internet for All Initiative” of Biden Harris government. These funds came from the United States Comprehensive Appropriation Act of 2021 ($980 million) and President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law ($2 billion), which includes a total of $65 billion to provide affordable and reliable high-speed Internet across the United States.