Office of Internet Connectivity and Growth Annual Report 2023

The ACCESS BROADBAND Act requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Office of Internet Connectivity and Growth (OICG) to submit to relevant congressional committees and publish on its website an annual report that contains a description of OICG’s work for the previous year and the number of U.S. residents connected to broadband through federal broadband support programs and the Universal Service Fund Program.  The OICG Annual Report describes the work of OICG, fulfilling the statutory requirement of the ACCESS BROADBAND Act. The 2023 OICG Annual Report provides an overview of the work accomplished by OICG across its initiatives over the prior calendar year as it administers the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 federal broadband grant programs. This is the third report prepared under the requirements of the ACCESS BROADBAND Act. The ACCESS BROADBAND Act also mandates that OICG report on “how many residents of the United States were provided broadband by which universal service mechanism or which Federal broadband support program,” and include an “estimate of the economic impact of such broadband deployment efforts on local economies, including any effect on small businesses or jobs.” NTIA’s forthcoming Federal Broadband Funding Report fulfills the remaining ACCESS BROADBAND Act requirements.