This strategic plan for New Mexico provides a framework for future efforts to eliminate the state's broadband gap, including a means of combatting the economic impact of Covid-19. Recommendations focus on using grant programs to expand rural broadband, prioritizing fiber-based rural solutions for longevity, prioritizing construction of new fiber and wireless networks, and including broadband considerations in all Covid-19 recovery planning.

This piece of legislation from the State of Connecticut, signed into law on July 12, 2021, puts forth rules for updating state broadband maps, introduces a grant program to support the deployment of broadband service, establishes that a public list of federal broadband funding opportunities will be maintained, and establishes rights and regulations for broadband providers.

This website includes information about current Colorado state broadband grant programs, an interactive broadband map, examples of RFPs, and other resources.

The California Broadband Council’s action plan, published in late 2020, outlines the situation of broadband in California, the state’s broadband goals, and actions the council recommends to meet those goals. These actions include modernizing broadband standards, increasing access to affordable services and devices, and improving broadband data, mapping transparency, and usability.

Published in 2019, the Arkansas State Broadband Plan begins with the Governor’s goal of deploying broadband with speeds of 25/3 Mbps in all population centers of at least 500 people by 2022. It then delves into the current broadband landscape, describing technologies, performance metrics, and federal funding sources, before focusing on Arkansas’ broadband resources, initiatives, recommendations, and recent broadband-related statewide legislation.

This Broadband Plan, published in 2018, outlines the history and current state of Arizona’s broadband programs and sets goals and policy recommendations for the future of its broadband development. The plan also examines case studies of initiatives taken by other states.

This broadband plan from the state of Alaska, published in 2019, reviews broadband-related challenges unique to Alaska, the current state of broadband in Alaska, strides made in the five years since the 2014 Alaska Broadband Plan, and recommendations for continued progress through 2024.

A study, from May 2019, that discusses three key elements of broadband policy success—availability, adoption, and application—as well as statewide priorities such as broadband planning and mapping, and material broadband enhancements to rural hospitals. The plan focuses on rural Alabama and makes a case for why broadband is necessary.

This report highlights the digital divide in southern Louisiana, providing analysis of the current state of broadband in the region, as well as recommendations for next steps to improve broadband, such as basing expansion on fiber networks.