GREAT Grant Awarded Areas and Address Locations Pre-2022

The NC Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) grant program funds the terrestrial deployment of broadband within unserved areas across the state. These datasets represent the awarded areas from each round of grant funding. Awards are based on data submitted by broadband providers. Specifically, in 2019 round 1 award locations were based on either census block or polygon area submittals; in 2020 round 2 award locations were based on parcel or polygon area submittals; and finally, in late 2020 and early 2021, round 3 award locations were based on either addresses or parcel area submittals. The N.C. Department of Information Technology’s Broadband Infrastructure Office, as authorized under S.L. 2018-5 and amended by S.L. 2019-230 and S.L. 2020-97, provides grants to private providers of broadband services to facilitate the deployment of broadband service to unserved areas of North Carolina. The Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) Program funds the terrestrial deployment of broadband within unserved areas of economically distressed counties. The grants help bring high-speed internet to thousands of North Carolinians, businesses and farms in the most rural and remote areas of the state. These areas include both Tier 1 and Tier 2 counties as well as rural census tracts located in development Tier 3 areas that are currently served by less than 25 megabytes per second download and 3 megabytes per second upload speeds. The grants are available to private broadband service providers and are designed to connect these areas with broadband as quickly as possible.