FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRWOMAN February 1, 2024 The Honorable Maria Cantwell Chair Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate 428 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Madame Chair: I am writing to keep you updated regarding the status of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). I last wrote you on January 8, 2024 to explain that the remaining funding we have for the ACP—the largest and most successful broadband affordability program in our Nation’s history—is insufficient to support consumers who count on this program beyond April 2024. There is broad-based support for additional funding for the ACP.1 Since I last wrote, on January 10, 2024, the bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act was introduced in the House and Senate and would provide $7 billion in additional funding for the ACP.2 More than 400 entities, including state, local and Tribal governments, non-profit organizations, and service providers have expressed support for the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act.3 My January 8, 2024 letter stressed that more funding is needed to keep the ACP in place, and that absent additional funding, the Commission would need to take steps to start orderly wind-down procedures for the ACP. Accordingly, on January 11, 2024, the Commission issued guidance to ACP providers and other stakeholders to start the orderly procedures to wind-down the ACP. 4 This guidance requires providers to send multiple written notices to ACP subscribers regarding the end of the program. To this end, by January 25, 2024, providers were required to send their ACP subscribers the first notice about the end of the program and the potential impact 1 See, e.g., Letter from 174 Bipartisan Mayors to Speaker Mike Johnson et al., (Jan. 16, 2024), https://knowlegis.cq.com/file/download/Jn2UvBXcokM/2024-usmayors-ACP-SignOn-174.pdf/. 2 Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024 (H.R. 6929/S. 3565) available at https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3565 and https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th- congress/house-bill/6929/titles?s=1&r=14. 3 See, e.g., List of Supporters of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act, https://www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Supporters-of-the-Affordable-Connectivity-Program- Extension-Act.pdf. 4 Affordable Connectivity Program, WC Docket No. 21-450, Order (Jan. 11, 2024), https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-23A1.pdf). Page 2 – The Honorable MariaCantwell on their bills. As the wind down proceeds, households enrolled in the ACP will receive additional written notices from providers, as well as the Universal Service Administrative Company, with more detail about the end of the ACP and impact on their bill when the program ceases. The Commission’s January 11, 2024 guidance also announced that the ACP would stop accepting new enrollments on February 8, 2024. As my earlier letter explained, the enrollment freeze is necessary to slow the depletion of the remaining funding and reduce volatility in the program. This step will also stabilize the number of households affected by the end of the ACP and reduce consumer confusion. Following the enrollment freeze, the Commission will finalize its projection of the end date of the ACP. It bears repeating that today nearly 23 million households nationwide are enrolled in and benefitting from the ACP. In order to provide you with more detail about the distribution of this program and the many households that count on it to get online and stay online, attached is public information regarding ACP enrollments, with data for each state, territory, and congressional district. Without additional funding for the ACP, these households will lose an important benefit and are at risk of losing the internet service they rely on for work, school, health care and more. In fact, based on the results from a recent Commission survey of ACP subscribers, nearly three- quarters of households use their ACP-funded internet for health care, approximately half use it for employment, and approximately three-quarters of ACP subscribers between 18 and 24 years of age use it for school. The survey results further indicate that if the ACP ends, more than three- quarters of the households that count on this program would experience service disruption or would have to change their existing plan or stop service altogether. These survey results are consistent with other survey data showing that many ACP households will struggle to afford internet if they no longer receive the ACP benefit.5 I hope you find this information helpful. The Commission stands ready to assist Congress with any efforts to fully fund the ACP into the future. Sincerely, Jessica Rosenworcel 5 Benenson Strategy Group, The Impact and Importance of the Affordable Connectivity Program, https://www.bsgco.com/acp-fact-sheet (describing October 2023 survey indicating that 95% of ACP households will struggle with costs if the ACP ends, and that the majority of ACP households fear that the end of the ACP could cause job loss or loss of primary source of income, reduce access to health care, and cause children to fall behind in school). ACP Enrollment Data as of January 1, 2024 Congressional Total ACP Households as of Jan.1, State District 2024 Alabama 01 46,240 Alabama 02 68,263 Alabama 03 61,440 Alabama 04 58,504 Alabama 05 36,363 Alabama 06 38,661 Alabama 07 97,155 Alabama Total 406,626 Alaska Total AL 22,507 Arizona 01 39,342 Arizona 02 58,979 Arizona 03 92,311 Arizona 04 53,283 Arizona 05 23,958 Arizona 06 49,404 Arizona 07 103,006 Arizona 08 50,374 Arizona 09 47,846 Arizona Total 518,503 Arkansas 01 57,812 Arkansas 02 44,548 Arkansas 03 51,971 Arkansas 04 55,984 Arkansas Total 210,315 California 01 57,592 California 02 26,124 California 03 19,889 California 04 25,743 California 05 36,746 California 06 50,442 California 07 47,215 California 08 38,274 California 09 45,472 California 10 14,466 California 11 38,796 California 12 39,686 California 13 60,792 California 14 21,881 California 15 19,089 California 16 16,268 1 California 17 17,140 California 18 40,499 California 19 22,480 California 20 53,051 California 21 84,518 California 22 103,807 California 23 88,415 California 24 37,392 California 25 107,592 California 26 39,318 California 27 67,076 California 28 46,596 California 29 87,411 California 30 60,112 California 31 78,308 California 32 41,774 California 33 95,701 California 34 95,673 California 35 72,594 California 36 26,901 California 37 102,359 California 38 53,255 California 39 78,849 California 40 25,953 California 41 49,512 California 42 82,946 California 43 99,168 California 44 72,606 California 45 57,689 California 46 76,421 California 47 29,563 California 48 40,503 California 49 32,792 California 50 40,548 California 51 52,918 California 52 78,783 California Total 2,798,698 Colorado 01 44,347 Colorado 02 16,185 Colorado 03 50,201 Colorado 04 17,009 Colorado 05 29,983 Colorado 06 29,809 2 Colorado 07 23,658 Colorado 08 30,727 Colorado Total 241,919 Connecticut 01 48,649 Connecticut 02 31,261 Connecticut 03 37,510 Connecticut 04 24,896 Connecticut 05 39,232 Connecticut Total 181,548 Delaware Total AL 50,541 District of Columbia Total NA 61,244 Florida 01 56,007 Florida 02 52,881 Florida 03 72,392 Florida 04 69,405 Florida 05 29,127 Florida 06 79,724 Florida 07 66,757 Florida 08 63,473 Florida 09 80,600 Florida 10 98,243 Florida 11 45,550 Florida 12 86,857 Florida 13 67,716 Florida 14 102,792 Florida 15 84,696 Florida 16 53,601 Florida 17 29,784 Florida 18 84,646 Florida 19 24,795 Florida 20 67,590 Florida 21 30,637 Florida 22 38,382 Florida 23 21,733 Florida 24 74,611 Florida 25 28,192 Florida 26 63,433 Florida 27 50,327 Florida 28 58,936 Florida Total 1,682,887 Georgia 01 47,486 Georgia 02 97,545 Georgia 03 56,116 3 Georgia 04 49,822 Georgia 05 64,368 Georgia 06 10,413 Georgia 07 25,812 Georgia 08 67,514 Georgia 09 33,058 Georgia 10 50,038 Georgia 11 23,353 Georgia 12 61,627 Georgia 13 59,400 Georgia 14 51,464 Georgia Total 698,016 Hawaii 01 26,593 Hawaii 02 32,035 Hawaii Total 58,628 Idaho 01 27,670 Idaho 02 23,896 Idaho Total 51,566 Illinois 01 78,809 Illinois 02 75,051 Illinois 03 29,549 Illinois 04 34,112 Illinois 05 14,923 Illinois 06 20,608 Illinois 07 82,118 Illinois 08 17,790 Illinois 09 25,080 Illinois 10 20,296 Illinois 11 17,210 Illinois 12 45,472 Illinois 13 76,604 Illinois 14 25,274 Illinois 15 30,296 Illinois 16 23,916 Illinois 17 57,954 Illinois Total 675,062 Indiana 01 43,804 Indiana 02 36,324 Indiana 03 35,729 Indiana 04 27,138 Indiana 05 40,977 Indiana 06 39,175 Indiana 07 85,150 4 Indiana 08 59,301 Indiana 09 45,433 Indiana Total 413,031 Iowa 01 31,474 Iowa 02 29,540 Iowa 03 32,086 Iowa 04 26,924 Iowa Total 120,024 Kansas 01 27,643 Kansas 02 42,593 Kansas 03 17,123 Kansas 04 45,590 Kansas Total 132,949 Kentucky 01 65,588 Kentucky 02 63,584 Kentucky 03 85,061 Kentucky 04 51,882 Kentucky 05 108,818 Kentucky 06 71,465 Kentucky Total 446,398 Louisiana 01 68,100 Louisiana 02 134,153 Louisiana 03 86,500 Louisiana 04 87,987 Louisiana 05 95,553 Louisiana 06 74,866 Louisiana Total 547,159 Maine 01 36,188 Maine 02 60,964 Maine Total 97,152 Maryland 01 33,214 Maryland 02 30,650 Maryland 03 19,730 Maryland 04 33,034 Maryland 05 19,875 Maryland 06 28,017 Maryland 07 95,467 Maryland 08 15,882 Maryland Total 275,869 Massachusetts 01 72,258 Massachusetts 02 51,319 Massachusetts 03 41,151 Massachusetts 04 28,364 5 Massachusetts 05 21,006 Massachusetts 06 23,632 Massachusetts 07 55,988 Massachusetts 08 35,710 Massachusetts 09 28,130 Massachusetts Total 357,558 Michigan 01 70,421 Michigan 02 64,053 Michigan 03 50,739 Michigan 04 64,454 Michigan 05 52,122 Michigan 06 31,841 Michigan 07 42,247 Michigan 08 99,770 Michigan 09 39,576 Michigan 10 68,375 Michigan 11 46,931 Michigan 12 116,882 Michigan 13 137,586 Michigan Total 884,997 Minnesota 01 34,242 Minnesota 02 19,319 Minnesota 03 19,250 Minnesota 04 38,758 Minnesota 05 42,681 Minnesota 06 24,579 Minnesota 07 26,980 Minnesota 08 33,512 Minnesota Total 239,321 Mississippi 01 45,641 Mississippi 02 93,015 Mississippi 03 49,087 Mississippi 04 51,211 Mississippi Total 238,954 Missouri 01 102,244 Missouri 02 25,814 Missouri 03 32,934 Missouri 04 35,844 Missouri 05 59,393 Missouri 06 32,312 Missouri 07 35,164 Missouri 08 62,325 Missouri Total 386,030 6 Montana 01 25,964 Montana 02 28,071 Montana Total 54,035 Nebraska 01 30,993 Nebraska 02 37,073 Nebraska 03 27,225 Nebraska Total 95,291 Nevada 01 89,861 Nevada 02 51,561 Nevada 03 51,503 Nevada 04 76,365 Nevada Total 269,290 New Hampshire 01 17,803 New Hampshire 02 20,125 New Hampshire Total 37,928 New Jersey 01 35,412 New Jersey 02 35,347 New Jersey 03 15,536 New Jersey 04 17,994 New Jersey 05 12,846 New Jersey 06 23,976 New Jersey 07 10,232 New Jersey 08 37,561 New Jersey 09 38,289 New Jersey 10 62,832 New Jersey 11 10,691 New Jersey 12 21,574 New Jersey Total 322,290 New Mexico 01 47,207 New Mexico 02 69,686 New Mexico 03 61,337 New Mexico Total 178,230 New York 01 13,182 New York 02 26,466 New York 03 17,680 New York 04 20,947 New York 05 78,778 New York 06 63,266 New York 07 77,426 New York 08 94,021 New York 09 61,956 New York 10 62,721 New York 11 55,507 7 New York 12 43,980 New York 13 153,689 New York 14 84,095 New York 15 134,805 New York 16 45,709 New York 17 22,333 New York 18 46,641 New York 19 66,039 New York 20 68,755 New York 21 68,527 New York 22 79,619 New York 23 63,410 New York 24 69,666 New York 25 79,033 New York 26 99,338 New York Total 1,697,589 North Carolina 01 79,728 North Carolina 02 33,491 North Carolina 03 61,052 North Carolina 04 58,140 North Carolina 05 70,655 North Carolina 06 79,157 North Carolina 07 82,135 North Carolina 08 66,190 North Carolina 09 73,797 North Carolina 10 71,930 North Carolina 11 43,749 North Carolina 12 59,695 North Carolina 13 55,440 North Carolina 14 52,646 North Carolina Total 887,805 North Dakota Total AL 16,904 Ohio 01 76,128 Ohio 02 78,625 Ohio 03 80,242 Ohio 04 64,265 Ohio 05 69,271 Ohio 06 68,025 Ohio 07 37,913 Ohio 08 67,294 Ohio 09 72,943 Ohio 10 98,847 Ohio 11 133,142 8 Ohio 12 66,864 Ohio 13 86,012 Ohio 14 70,276 Ohio 15 70,059 Ohio Total 1,139,906 Oklahoma 01 87,903 Oklahoma 02 76,137 Oklahoma 03 62,822 Oklahoma 04 60,450 Oklahoma 05 59,972 Oklahoma Total 347,284 Oregon 01 28,415 Oregon 02 54,911 Oregon 03 37,198 Oregon 04 50,463 Oregon 05 24,187 Oregon 06 28,770 Oregon Total 223,944 Pennsylvania 01 17,466 Pennsylvania 02 85,063 Pennsylvania 03 92,112 Pennsylvania 04 17,913 Pennsylvania 05 44,447 Pennsylvania 06 28,555 Pennsylvania 07 40,823 Pennsylvania 08 48,959 Pennsylvania 09 39,128 Pennsylvania 10 41,600 Pennsylvania 11 27,057 Pennsylvania 12 50,365 Pennsylvania 13 35,993 Pennsylvania 14 42,065 Pennsylvania 15 32,975 Pennsylvania 16 61,584 Pennsylvania 17 29,826 Pennsylvania Total 735,931 Rhode Island 01 46,596 Rhode Island 02 36,770 Rhode Island Total 83,366 South Carolina 01 25,050 South Carolina 02 53,160 South Carolina 03 62,484 South Carolina 04 66,924 9 South Carolina 05 52,174 South Carolina 06 79,883 South Carolina 07 83,349 South Carolina Total 423,024 South Dakota Total AL 23,176 Tennessee 01 66,446 Tennessee 02 39,997 Tennessee 03 44,105 Tennessee 04 43,488 Tennessee 05 23,083 Tennessee 06 42,359 Tennessee 07 37,402 Tennessee 08 53,284 Tennessee 09 70,931 Tennessee Total 421,095 Texas 01 34,203 Texas 02 21,080 Texas 03 20,106 Texas 04 22,391 Texas 05 35,796 Texas 06 36,246 Texas 07 30,599 Texas 08 24,441 Texas 09 48,315 Texas 10 19,336 Texas 11 37,257 Texas 12 37,892 Texas 13 39,205 Texas 14 43,569 Texas 15 91,964 Texas 16 79,594 Texas 17 38,660 Texas 18 55,127 Texas 19 33,181 Texas 20 76,781 Texas 21 23,727 Texas 22 18,290 Texas 23 48,673 Texas 24 18,397 Texas 25 35,905 Texas 26 17,645 Texas 27 58,601 Texas 28 88,006 10 Texas 29 44,653 Texas 30 72,472 Texas 31 28,862 Texas 32 53,871 Texas 33 71,000 Texas 34 112,739 Texas 35 66,159 Texas 36 36,583 Texas 37 25,570 Texas 38 16,766 Texas Total 1,663,662 Utah 01 18,233 Utah 02 24,595 Utah 03 14,126 Utah 04 14,338 Utah Total 71,292 Vermont Total AL 25,040 Virginia 01 25,995 Virginia 02 45,582 Virginia 03 94,524 Virginia 04 71,281 Virginia 05 44,279 Virginia 06 41,897 Virginia 07 25,743 Virginia 08 26,136 Virginia 09 56,347 Virginia 10 10,024 Virginia 11 13,679 Virginia Total 455,487 Washington 01 15,026 Washington 02 27,271 Washington 03 36,539 Washington 04 63,706 Washington 05 43,817 Washington 06 34,138 Washington 07 26,683 Washington 08 20,366 Washington 09 37,673 Washington 10 33,527 Washington Total 338,746 West Virginia 01 73,004 West Virginia 02 51,536 West Virginia Total 124,540 11 Wisconsin 01 59,603 Wisconsin 02 37,704 Wisconsin 03 41,658 Wisconsin 04 121,061 Wisconsin 05 32,259 Wisconsin 06 44,450 Wisconsin 07 40,700 Wisconsin 08 43,723 Wisconsin Total 421,158 Wyoming Total AL 21,355 Puerto Rico Total NA 651,521 American Samoa Total NA 1,629 Guam Total NA 1,186 Northern Mariana Islands Total NA 2,877 Virgin Islands Total NA 5,096 12 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRWOMAN February 1, 2024 The Honorable Ted Cruz Ranking Member Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate 512 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Ranking Member Cruz: I am writing to keep you updated regarding the status of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). I last wrote you on January 8, 2024 to explain that the remaining funding we have for the ACP—the largest and most successful broadband affordability program in our Nation’s history—is insufficient to support consumers who count on this program beyond April 2024. There is broad-based support for additional funding for the ACP.6 Since I last wrote, on January 10, 2024, the bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act was introduced in the House and Senate and would provide $7 billion in additional funding for the ACP.7 More than 400 entities, including state, local and Tribal governments, non-profit organizations, and service providers have expressed support for the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act.8 My January 8, 2024 letter stressed that more funding is needed to keep the ACP in place, and that absent additional funding, the Commission would need to take steps to start orderly wind-down procedures for the ACP. Accordingly, on January 11, 2024, the Commission issued guidance to ACP providers and other stakeholders to start the orderly procedures to wind-down the ACP. 9 This guidance requires providers to send multiple written notices to ACP subscribers regarding the end of the program. To this end, by January 25, 2024, providers were required to send their ACP subscribers the first notice about the end of the program and the potential impact 6 See, e.g., Letter from 174 Bipartisan Mayors to Speaker Mike Johnson et al., (Jan. 16, 2024), https://knowlegis.cq.com/file/download/Jn2UvBXcokM/2024-usmayors-ACP-SignOn-174.pdf/. 7 Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024 (H.R. 6929/S. 3565) available at https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3565 and https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th- congress/house-bill/6929/titles?s=1&r=14. 8 See, e.g., List of Supporters of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act, https://www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Supporters-of-the-Affordable-Connectivity-Program- Extension-Act.pdf. 9 Affordable Connectivity Program, WC Docket No. 21-450, Order (Jan. 11, 2024), https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-23A1.pdf). Page 2 – The Honorable TedCruz on their bills. As the wind down proceeds, households enrolled in the ACP will receive additional written notices from providers, as well as the Universal Service Administrative Company, with more detail about the end of the ACP and impact on their bill when the program ceases. The Commission’s January 11, 2024 guidance also announced that the ACP would stop accepting new enrollments on February 8, 2024. As my earlier letter explained, the enrollment freeze is necessary to slow the depletion of the remaining funding and reduce volatility in the program. This step will also stabilize the number of households affected by the end of the ACP and reduce consumer confusion. Following the enrollment freeze, the Commission will finalize its projection of the end date of the ACP. It bears repeating that today nearly 23 million households nationwide are enrolled in and benefitting from the ACP. In order to provide you with more detail about the distribution of this program and the many households that count on it to get online and stay online, attached is public information regarding ACP enrollments, with data for each state, territory, and congressional district. Without additional funding for the ACP, these households will lose an important benefit and are at risk of losing the internet service they rely on for work, school, health care and more. In fact, based on the results from a recent Commission survey of ACP subscribers, nearly three- quarters of households use their ACP-funded internet for health care, approximately half use it for employment, and approximately three-quarters of ACP subscribers between 18 and 24 years of age use it for school. The survey results further indicate that if the ACP ends, more than three- quarters of the households that count on this program would experience service disruption or would have to change their existing plan or stop service altogether. These survey results are consistent with other survey data showing that many ACP households will struggle to afford internet if they no longer receive the ACP benefit.10 I hope you find this information helpful. The Commission stands ready to assist Congress with any efforts to fully fund the ACP into the future. Sincerely, Jessica Rosenworcel 10 Benenson Strategy Group, The Impact and Importance of the Affordable Connectivity Program, https://www.bsgco.com/acp-fact-sheet (describing October 2023 survey indicating that 95% of ACP households will struggle with costs if the ACP ends, and that the majority of ACP households fear that the end of the ACP could cause job loss or loss of primary source of income, reduce access to health care, and cause children to fall behind in school). ACP Enrollment Data as of January 1, 2024 Congressional Total ACP Households as of Jan.1, State District 2024 Alabama 01 46,240 Alabama 02 68,263 Alabama 03 61,440 Alabama 04 58,504 Alabama 05 36,363 Alabama 06 38,661 Alabama 07 97,155 Alabama Total 406,626 Alaska Total AL 22,507 Arizona 01 39,342 Arizona 02 58,979 Arizona 03 92,311 Arizona 04 53,283 Arizona 05 23,958 Arizona 06 49,404 Arizona 07 103,006 Arizona 08 50,374 Arizona 09 47,846 Arizona Total 518,503 Arkansas 01 57,812 Arkansas 02 44,548 Arkansas 03 51,971 Arkansas 04 55,984 Arkansas Total 210,315 California 01 57,592 California 02 26,124 California 03 19,889 California 04 25,743 California 05 36,746 California 06 50,442 California 07 47,215 California 08 38,274 California 09 45,472 California 10 14,466 California 11 38,796 California 12 39,686 California 13 60,792 California 14 21,881 California 15 19,089 California 16 16,268 1 California 17 17,140 California 18 40,499 California 19 22,480 California 20 53,051 California 21 84,518 California 22 103,807 California 23 88,415 California 24 37,392 California 25 107,592 California 26 39,318 California 27 67,076 California 28 46,596 California 29 87,411 California 30 60,112 California 31 78,308 California 32 41,774 California 33 95,701 California 34 95,673 California 35 72,594 California 36 26,901 California 37 102,359 California 38 53,255 California 39 78,849 California 40 25,953 California 41 49,512 California 42 82,946 California 43 99,168 California 44 72,606 California 45 57,689 California 46 76,421 California 47 29,563 California 48 40,503 California 49 32,792 California 50 40,548 California 51 52,918 California 52 78,783 California Total 2,798,698 Colorado 01 44,347 Colorado 02 16,185 Colorado 03 50,201 Colorado 04 17,009 Colorado 05 29,983 Colorado 06 29,809 2 Colorado 07 23,658 Colorado 08 30,727 Colorado Total 241,919 Connecticut 01 48,649 Connecticut 02 31,261 Connecticut 03 37,510 Connecticut 04 24,896 Connecticut 05 39,232 Connecticut Total 181,548 Delaware Total AL 50,541 District of Columbia Total NA 61,244 Florida 01 56,007 Florida 02 52,881 Florida 03 72,392 Florida 04 69,405 Florida 05 29,127 Florida 06 79,724 Florida 07 66,757 Florida 08 63,473 Florida 09 80,600 Florida 10 98,243 Florida 11 45,550 Florida 12 86,857 Florida 13 67,716 Florida 14 102,792 Florida 15 84,696 Florida 16 53,601 Florida 17 29,784 Florida 18 84,646 Florida 19 24,795 Florida 20 67,590 Florida 21 30,637 Florida 22 38,382 Florida 23 21,733 Florida 24 74,611 Florida 25 28,192 Florida 26 63,433 Florida 27 50,327 Florida 28 58,936 Florida Total 1,682,887 Georgia 01 47,486 Georgia 02 97,545 Georgia 03 56,116 3 Georgia 04 49,822 Georgia 05 64,368 Georgia 06 10,413 Georgia 07 25,812 Georgia 08 67,514 Georgia 09 33,058 Georgia 10 50,038 Georgia 11 23,353 Georgia 12 61,627 Georgia 13 59,400 Georgia 14 51,464 Georgia Total 698,016 Hawaii 01 26,593 Hawaii 02 32,035 Hawaii Total 58,628 Idaho 01 27,670 Idaho 02 23,896 Idaho Total 51,566 Illinois 01 78,809 Illinois 02 75,051 Illinois 03 29,549 Illinois 04 34,112 Illinois 05 14,923 Illinois 06 20,608 Illinois 07 82,118 Illinois 08 17,790 Illinois 09 25,080 Illinois 10 20,296 Illinois 11 17,210 Illinois 12 45,472 Illinois 13 76,604 Illinois 14 25,274 Illinois 15 30,296 Illinois 16 23,916 Illinois 17 57,954 Illinois Total 675,062 Indiana 01 43,804 Indiana 02 36,324 Indiana 03 35,729 Indiana 04 27,138 Indiana 05 40,977 Indiana 06 39,175 Indiana 07 85,150 4 Indiana 08 59,301 Indiana 09 45,433 Indiana Total 413,031 Iowa 01 31,474 Iowa 02 29,540 Iowa 03 32,086 Iowa 04 26,924 Iowa Total 120,024 Kansas 01 27,643 Kansas 02 42,593 Kansas 03 17,123 Kansas 04 45,590 Kansas Total 132,949 Kentucky 01 65,588 Kentucky 02 63,584 Kentucky 03 85,061 Kentucky 04 51,882 Kentucky 05 108,818 Kentucky 06 71,465 Kentucky Total 446,398 Louisiana 01 68,100 Louisiana 02 134,153 Louisiana 03 86,500 Louisiana 04 87,987 Louisiana 05 95,553 Louisiana 06 74,866 Louisiana Total 547,159 Maine 01 36,188 Maine 02 60,964 Maine Total 97,152 Maryland 01 33,214 Maryland 02 30,650 Maryland 03 19,730 Maryland 04 33,034 Maryland 05 19,875 Maryland 06 28,017 Maryland 07 95,467 Maryland 08 15,882 Maryland Total 275,869 Massachusetts 01 72,258 Massachusetts 02 51,319 Massachusetts 03 41,151 Massachusetts 04 28,364 5 Massachusetts 05 21,006 Massachusetts 06 23,632 Massachusetts 07 55,988 Massachusetts 08 35,710 Massachusetts 09 28,130 Massachusetts Total 357,558 Michigan 01 70,421 Michigan 02 64,053 Michigan 03 50,739 Michigan 04 64,454 Michigan 05 52,122 Michigan 06 31,841 Michigan 07 42,247 Michigan 08 99,770 Michigan 09 39,576 Michigan 10 68,375 Michigan 11 46,931 Michigan 12 116,882 Michigan 13 137,586 Michigan Total 884,997 Minnesota 01 34,242 Minnesota 02 19,319 Minnesota 03 19,250 Minnesota 04 38,758 Minnesota 05 42,681 Minnesota 06 24,579 Minnesota 07 26,980 Minnesota 08 33,512 Minnesota Total 239,321 Mississippi 01 45,641 Mississippi 02 93,015 Mississippi 03 49,087 Mississippi 04 51,211 Mississippi Total 238,954 Missouri 01 102,244 Missouri 02 25,814 Missouri 03 32,934 Missouri 04 35,844 Missouri 05 59,393 Missouri 06 32,312 Missouri 07 35,164 Missouri 08 62,325 Missouri Total 386,030 6 Montana 01 25,964 Montana 02 28,071 Montana Total 54,035 Nebraska 01 30,993 Nebraska 02 37,073 Nebraska 03 27,225 Nebraska Total 95,291 Nevada 01 89,861 Nevada 02 51,561 Nevada 03 51,503 Nevada 04 76,365 Nevada Total 269,290 New Hampshire 01 17,803 New Hampshire 02 20,125 New Hampshire Total 37,928 New Jersey 01 35,412 New Jersey 02 35,347 New Jersey 03 15,536 New Jersey 04 17,994 New Jersey 05 12,846 New Jersey 06 23,976 New Jersey 07 10,232 New Jersey 08 37,561 New Jersey 09 38,289 New Jersey 10 62,832 New Jersey 11 10,691 New Jersey 12 21,574 New Jersey Total 322,290 New Mexico 01 47,207 New Mexico 02 69,686 New Mexico 03 61,337 New Mexico Total 178,230 New York 01 13,182 New York 02 26,466 New York 03 17,680 New York 04 20,947 New York 05 78,778 New York 06 63,266 New York 07 77,426 New York 08 94,021 New York 09 61,956 New York 10 62,721 New York 11 55,507 7 New York 12 43,980 New York 13 153,689 New York 14 84,095 New York 15 134,805 New York 16 45,709 New York 17 22,333 New York 18 46,641 New York 19 66,039 New York 20 68,755 New York 21 68,527 New York 22 79,619 New York 23 63,410 New York 24 69,666 New York 25 79,033 New York 26 99,338 New York Total 1,697,589 North Carolina 01 79,728 North Carolina 02 33,491 North Carolina 03 61,052 North Carolina 04 58,140 North Carolina 05 70,655 North Carolina 06 79,157 North Carolina 07 82,135 North Carolina 08 66,190 North Carolina 09 73,797 North Carolina 10 71,930 North Carolina 11 43,749 North Carolina 12 59,695 North Carolina 13 55,440 North Carolina 14 52,646 North Carolina Total 887,805 North Dakota Total AL 16,904 Ohio 01 76,128 Ohio 02 78,625 Ohio 03 80,242 Ohio 04 64,265 Ohio 05 69,271 Ohio 06 68,025 Ohio 07 37,913 Ohio 08 67,294 Ohio 09 72,943 Ohio 10 98,847 Ohio 11 133,142 8 Ohio 12 66,864 Ohio 13 86,012 Ohio 14 70,276 Ohio 15 70,059 Ohio Total 1,139,906 Oklahoma 01 87,903 Oklahoma 02 76,137 Oklahoma 03 62,822 Oklahoma 04 60,450 Oklahoma 05 59,972 Oklahoma Total 347,284 Oregon 01 28,415 Oregon 02 54,911 Oregon 03 37,198 Oregon 04 50,463 Oregon 05 24,187 Oregon 06 28,770 Oregon Total 223,944 Pennsylvania 01 17,466 Pennsylvania 02 85,063 Pennsylvania 03 92,112 Pennsylvania 04 17,913 Pennsylvania 05 44,447 Pennsylvania 06 28,555 Pennsylvania 07 40,823 Pennsylvania 08 48,959 Pennsylvania 09 39,128 Pennsylvania 10 41,600 Pennsylvania 11 27,057 Pennsylvania 12 50,365 Pennsylvania 13 35,993 Pennsylvania 14 42,065 Pennsylvania 15 32,975 Pennsylvania 16 61,584 Pennsylvania 17 29,826 Pennsylvania Total 735,931 Rhode Island 01 46,596 Rhode Island 02 36,770 Rhode Island Total 83,366 South Carolina 01 25,050 South Carolina 02 53,160 South Carolina 03 62,484 South Carolina 04 66,924 9 South Carolina 05 52,174 South Carolina 06 79,883 South Carolina 07 83,349 South Carolina Total 423,024 South Dakota Total AL 23,176 Tennessee 01 66,446 Tennessee 02 39,997 Tennessee 03 44,105 Tennessee 04 43,488 Tennessee 05 23,083 Tennessee 06 42,359 Tennessee 07 37,402 Tennessee 08 53,284 Tennessee 09 70,931 Tennessee Total 421,095 Texas 01 34,203 Texas 02 21,080 Texas 03 20,106 Texas 04 22,391 Texas 05 35,796 Texas 06 36,246 Texas 07 30,599 Texas 08 24,441 Texas 09 48,315 Texas 10 19,336 Texas 11 37,257 Texas 12 37,892 Texas 13 39,205 Texas 14 43,569 Texas 15 91,964 Texas 16 79,594 Texas 17 38,660 Texas 18 55,127 Texas 19 33,181 Texas 20 76,781 Texas 21 23,727 Texas 22 18,290 Texas 23 48,673 Texas 24 18,397 Texas 25 35,905 Texas 26 17,645 Texas 27 58,601 Texas 28 88,006 10 Texas 29 44,653 Texas 30 72,472 Texas 31 28,862 Texas 32 53,871 Texas 33 71,000 Texas 34 112,739 Texas 35 66,159 Texas 36 36,583 Texas 37 25,570 Texas 38 16,766 Texas Total 1,663,662 Utah 01 18,233 Utah 02 24,595 Utah 03 14,126 Utah 04 14,338 Utah Total 71,292 Vermont Total AL 25,040 Virginia 01 25,995 Virginia 02 45,582 Virginia 03 94,524 Virginia 04 71,281 Virginia 05 44,279 Virginia 06 41,897 Virginia 07 25,743 Virginia 08 26,136 Virginia 09 56,347 Virginia 10 10,024 Virginia 11 13,679 Virginia Total 455,487 Washington 01 15,026 Washington 02 27,271 Washington 03 36,539 Washington 04 63,706 Washington 05 43,817 Washington 06 34,138 Washington 07 26,683 Washington 08 20,366 Washington 09 37,673 Washington 10 33,527 Washington Total 338,746 West Virginia 01 73,004 West Virginia 02 51,536 West Virginia Total 124,540 11 Wisconsin 01 59,603 Wisconsin 02 37,704 Wisconsin 03 41,658 Wisconsin 04 121,061 Wisconsin 05 32,259 Wisconsin 06 44,450 Wisconsin 07 40,700 Wisconsin 08 43,723 Wisconsin Total 421,158 Wyoming Total AL 21,355 Puerto Rico Total NA 651,521 American Samoa Total NA 1,629 Guam Total NA 1,186 Northern Mariana Islands Total NA 2,877 Virgin Islands Total NA 5,096 12 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRWOMAN February 1, 2024 The Honorable Cathy McMorris Rodgers Chair Committee on Energy and Commerce U.S. House of Representatives 2125 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Madam Chair: I am writing to keep you updated regarding the status of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). I last wrote you on January 8, 2024 to explain that the remaining funding we have for the ACP—the largest and most successful broadband affordability program in our Nation’s history—is insufficient to support consumers who count on this program beyond April 2024. There is broad-based support for additional funding for the ACP.11 Since I last wrote, on January 10, 2024, the bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act was introduced in the House and Senate and would provide $7 billion in additional funding for the ACP.12 More than 400 entities, including state, local and Tribal governments, non-profit organizations, and service providers have expressed support for the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act.13 My January 8, 2024 letter stressed that more funding is needed to keep the ACP in place, and that absent additional funding, the Commission would need to take steps to start orderly wind-down procedures for the ACP. Accordingly, on January 11, 2024, the Commission issued guidance to ACP providers and other stakeholders to start the orderly procedures to wind-down the ACP. 14 This guidance requires providers to send multiple written notices to ACP subscribers regarding the end of the program. To this end, by January 25, 2024, providers were required to send their ACP subscribers the first notice about the end of the program and the potential impact 11 See, e.g., Letter from 174 Bipartisan Mayors to Speaker Mike Johnson et al., (Jan. 16, 2024), https://knowlegis.cq.com/file/download/Jn2UvBXcokM/2024-usmayors-ACP-SignOn-174.pdf/. 12 Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024 (H.R. 6929/S. 3565) available at https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3565 and https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th- congress/house-bill/6929/titles?s=1&r=14. 13 See, e.g., List of Supporters of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act, https://www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Supporters-of-the-Affordable-Connectivity-Program- Extension-Act.pdf. 14 Affordable Connectivity Program, WC Docket No. 21-450, Order (Jan. 11, 2024), https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-23A1.pdf). Page 2 – The Honorable CathyMcMorris Rodgers on their bills. As the wind down proceeds, households enrolled in the ACP will receive additional written notices from providers, as well as the Universal Service Administrative Company, with more detail about the end of the ACP and impact on their bill when the program ceases. The Commission’s January 11, 2024 guidance also announced that the ACP would stop accepting new enrollments on February 8, 2024. As my earlier letter explained, the enrollment freeze is necessary to slow the depletion of the remaining funding and reduce volatility in the program. This step will also stabilize the number of households affected by the end of the ACP and reduce consumer confusion. Following the enrollment freeze, the Commission will finalize its projection of the end date of the ACP. It bears repeating that today nearly 23 million households nationwide are enrolled in and benefitting from the ACP. In order to provide you with more detail about the distribution of this program and the many households that count on it to get online and stay online, attached is public information regarding ACP enrollments, with data for each state, territory, and congressional district. Without additional funding for the ACP, these households will lose an important benefit and are at risk of losing the internet service they rely on for work, school, health care and more. In fact, based on the results from a recent Commission survey of ACP subscribers, nearly three- quarters of households use their ACP-funded internet for health care, approximately half use it for employment, and approximately three-quarters of ACP subscribers between 18 and 24 years of age use it for school. The survey results further indicate that if the ACP ends, more than three- quarters of the households that count on this program would experience service disruption or would have to change their existing plan or stop service altogether. These survey results are consistent with other survey data showing that many ACP households will struggle to afford internet if they no longer receive the ACP benefit.15 I hope you find this information helpful. The Commission stands ready to assist Congress with any efforts to fully fund the ACP into the future. Sincerely, Jessica Rosenworcel 15 Benenson Strategy Group, The Impact and Importance of the Affordable Connectivity Program, https://www.bsgco.com/acp-fact-sheet (describing October 2023 survey indicating that 95% of ACP households will struggle with costs if the ACP ends, and that the majority of ACP households fear that the end of the ACP could cause job loss or loss of primary source of income, reduce access to health care, and cause children to fall behind in school). ACP Enrollment Data as of January 1, 2024 Congressional Total ACP Households as of Jan.1, State District 2024 Alabama 01 46,240 Alabama 02 68,263 Alabama 03 61,440 Alabama 04 58,504 Alabama 05 36,363 Alabama 06 38,661 Alabama 07 97,155 Alabama Total 406,626 Alaska Total AL 22,507 Arizona 01 39,342 Arizona 02 58,979 Arizona 03 92,311 Arizona 04 53,283 Arizona 05 23,958 Arizona 06 49,404 Arizona 07 103,006 Arizona 08 50,374 Arizona 09 47,846 Arizona Total 518,503 Arkansas 01 57,812 Arkansas 02 44,548 Arkansas 03 51,971 Arkansas 04 55,984 Arkansas Total 210,315 California 01 57,592 California 02 26,124 California 03 19,889 California 04 25,743 California 05 36,746 California 06 50,442 California 07 47,215 California 08 38,274 California 09 45,472 California 10 14,466 California 11 38,796 California 12 39,686 California 13 60,792 California 14 21,881 California 15 19,089 California 16 16,268 1 California 17 17,140 California 18 40,499 California 19 22,480 California 20 53,051 California 21 84,518 California 22 103,807 California 23 88,415 California 24 37,392 California 25 107,592 California 26 39,318 California 27 67,076 California 28 46,596 California 29 87,411 California 30 60,112 California 31 78,308 California 32 41,774 California 33 95,701 California 34 95,673 California 35 72,594 California 36 26,901 California 37 102,359 California 38 53,255 California 39 78,849 California 40 25,953 California 41 49,512 California 42 82,946 California 43 99,168 California 44 72,606 California 45 57,689 California 46 76,421 California 47 29,563 California 48 40,503 California 49 32,792 California 50 40,548 California 51 52,918 California 52 78,783 California Total 2,798,698 Colorado 01 44,347 Colorado 02 16,185 Colorado 03 50,201 Colorado 04 17,009 Colorado 05 29,983 Colorado 06 29,809 2 Colorado 07 23,658 Colorado 08 30,727 Colorado Total 241,919 Connecticut 01 48,649 Connecticut 02 31,261 Connecticut 03 37,510 Connecticut 04 24,896 Connecticut 05 39,232 Connecticut Total 181,548 Delaware Total AL 50,541 District of Columbia Total NA 61,244 Florida 01 56,007 Florida 02 52,881 Florida 03 72,392 Florida 04 69,405 Florida 05 29,127 Florida 06 79,724 Florida 07 66,757 Florida 08 63,473 Florida 09 80,600 Florida 10 98,243 Florida 11 45,550 Florida 12 86,857 Florida 13 67,716 Florida 14 102,792 Florida 15 84,696 Florida 16 53,601 Florida 17 29,784 Florida 18 84,646 Florida 19 24,795 Florida 20 67,590 Florida 21 30,637 Florida 22 38,382 Florida 23 21,733 Florida 24 74,611 Florida 25 28,192 Florida 26 63,433 Florida 27 50,327 Florida 28 58,936 Florida Total 1,682,887 Georgia 01 47,486 Georgia 02 97,545 Georgia 03 56,116 3 Georgia 04 49,822 Georgia 05 64,368 Georgia 06 10,413 Georgia 07 25,812 Georgia 08 67,514 Georgia 09 33,058 Georgia 10 50,038 Georgia 11 23,353 Georgia 12 61,627 Georgia 13 59,400 Georgia 14 51,464 Georgia Total 698,016 Hawaii 01 26,593 Hawaii 02 32,035 Hawaii Total 58,628 Idaho 01 27,670 Idaho 02 23,896 Idaho Total 51,566 Illinois 01 78,809 Illinois 02 75,051 Illinois 03 29,549 Illinois 04 34,112 Illinois 05 14,923 Illinois 06 20,608 Illinois 07 82,118 Illinois 08 17,790 Illinois 09 25,080 Illinois 10 20,296 Illinois 11 17,210 Illinois 12 45,472 Illinois 13 76,604 Illinois 14 25,274 Illinois 15 30,296 Illinois 16 23,916 Illinois 17 57,954 Illinois Total 675,062 Indiana 01 43,804 Indiana 02 36,324 Indiana 03 35,729 Indiana 04 27,138 Indiana 05 40,977 Indiana 06 39,175 Indiana 07 85,150 4 Indiana 08 59,301 Indiana 09 45,433 Indiana Total 413,031 Iowa 01 31,474 Iowa 02 29,540 Iowa 03 32,086 Iowa 04 26,924 Iowa Total 120,024 Kansas 01 27,643 Kansas 02 42,593 Kansas 03 17,123 Kansas 04 45,590 Kansas Total 132,949 Kentucky 01 65,588 Kentucky 02 63,584 Kentucky 03 85,061 Kentucky 04 51,882 Kentucky 05 108,818 Kentucky 06 71,465 Kentucky Total 446,398 Louisiana 01 68,100 Louisiana 02 134,153 Louisiana 03 86,500 Louisiana 04 87,987 Louisiana 05 95,553 Louisiana 06 74,866 Louisiana Total 547,159 Maine 01 36,188 Maine 02 60,964 Maine Total 97,152 Maryland 01 33,214 Maryland 02 30,650 Maryland 03 19,730 Maryland 04 33,034 Maryland 05 19,875 Maryland 06 28,017 Maryland 07 95,467 Maryland 08 15,882 Maryland Total 275,869 Massachusetts 01 72,258 Massachusetts 02 51,319 Massachusetts 03 41,151 Massachusetts 04 28,364 5 Massachusetts 05 21,006 Massachusetts 06 23,632 Massachusetts 07 55,988 Massachusetts 08 35,710 Massachusetts 09 28,130 Massachusetts Total 357,558 Michigan 01 70,421 Michigan 02 64,053 Michigan 03 50,739 Michigan 04 64,454 Michigan 05 52,122 Michigan 06 31,841 Michigan 07 42,247 Michigan 08 99,770 Michigan 09 39,576 Michigan 10 68,375 Michigan 11 46,931 Michigan 12 116,882 Michigan 13 137,586 Michigan Total 884,997 Minnesota 01 34,242 Minnesota 02 19,319 Minnesota 03 19,250 Minnesota 04 38,758 Minnesota 05 42,681 Minnesota 06 24,579 Minnesota 07 26,980 Minnesota 08 33,512 Minnesota Total 239,321 Mississippi 01 45,641 Mississippi 02 93,015 Mississippi 03 49,087 Mississippi 04 51,211 Mississippi Total 238,954 Missouri 01 102,244 Missouri 02 25,814 Missouri 03 32,934 Missouri 04 35,844 Missouri 05 59,393 Missouri 06 32,312 Missouri 07 35,164 Missouri 08 62,325 Missouri Total 386,030 6 Montana 01 25,964 Montana 02 28,071 Montana Total 54,035 Nebraska 01 30,993 Nebraska 02 37,073 Nebraska 03 27,225 Nebraska Total 95,291 Nevada 01 89,861 Nevada 02 51,561 Nevada 03 51,503 Nevada 04 76,365 Nevada Total 269,290 New Hampshire 01 17,803 New Hampshire 02 20,125 New Hampshire Total 37,928 New Jersey 01 35,412 New Jersey 02 35,347 New Jersey 03 15,536 New Jersey 04 17,994 New Jersey 05 12,846 New Jersey 06 23,976 New Jersey 07 10,232 New Jersey 08 37,561 New Jersey 09 38,289 New Jersey 10 62,832 New Jersey 11 10,691 New Jersey 12 21,574 New Jersey Total 322,290 New Mexico 01 47,207 New Mexico 02 69,686 New Mexico 03 61,337 New Mexico Total 178,230 New York 01 13,182 New York 02 26,466 New York 03 17,680 New York 04 20,947 New York 05 78,778 New York 06 63,266 New York 07 77,426 New York 08 94,021 New York 09 61,956 New York 10 62,721 New York 11 55,507 7 New York 12 43,980 New York 13 153,689 New York 14 84,095 New York 15 134,805 New York 16 45,709 New York 17 22,333 New York 18 46,641 New York 19 66,039 New York 20 68,755 New York 21 68,527 New York 22 79,619 New York 23 63,410 New York 24 69,666 New York 25 79,033 New York 26 99,338 New York Total 1,697,589 North Carolina 01 79,728 North Carolina 02 33,491 North Carolina 03 61,052 North Carolina 04 58,140 North Carolina 05 70,655 North Carolina 06 79,157 North Carolina 07 82,135 North Carolina 08 66,190 North Carolina 09 73,797 North Carolina 10 71,930 North Carolina 11 43,749 North Carolina 12 59,695 North Carolina 13 55,440 North Carolina 14 52,646 North Carolina Total 887,805 North Dakota Total AL 16,904 Ohio 01 76,128 Ohio 02 78,625 Ohio 03 80,242 Ohio 04 64,265 Ohio 05 69,271 Ohio 06 68,025 Ohio 07 37,913 Ohio 08 67,294 Ohio 09 72,943 Ohio 10 98,847 Ohio 11 133,142 8 Ohio 12 66,864 Ohio 13 86,012 Ohio 14 70,276 Ohio 15 70,059 Ohio Total 1,139,906 Oklahoma 01 87,903 Oklahoma 02 76,137 Oklahoma 03 62,822 Oklahoma 04 60,450 Oklahoma 05 59,972 Oklahoma Total 347,284 Oregon 01 28,415 Oregon 02 54,911 Oregon 03 37,198 Oregon 04 50,463 Oregon 05 24,187 Oregon 06 28,770 Oregon Total 223,944 Pennsylvania 01 17,466 Pennsylvania 02 85,063 Pennsylvania 03 92,112 Pennsylvania 04 17,913 Pennsylvania 05 44,447 Pennsylvania 06 28,555 Pennsylvania 07 40,823 Pennsylvania 08 48,959 Pennsylvania 09 39,128 Pennsylvania 10 41,600 Pennsylvania 11 27,057 Pennsylvania 12 50,365 Pennsylvania 13 35,993 Pennsylvania 14 42,065 Pennsylvania 15 32,975 Pennsylvania 16 61,584 Pennsylvania 17 29,826 Pennsylvania Total 735,931 Rhode Island 01 46,596 Rhode Island 02 36,770 Rhode Island Total 83,366 South Carolina 01 25,050 South Carolina 02 53,160 South Carolina 03 62,484 South Carolina 04 66,924 9 South Carolina 05 52,174 South Carolina 06 79,883 South Carolina 07 83,349 South Carolina Total 423,024 South Dakota Total AL 23,176 Tennessee 01 66,446 Tennessee 02 39,997 Tennessee 03 44,105 Tennessee 04 43,488 Tennessee 05 23,083 Tennessee 06 42,359 Tennessee 07 37,402 Tennessee 08 53,284 Tennessee 09 70,931 Tennessee Total 421,095 Texas 01 34,203 Texas 02 21,080 Texas 03 20,106 Texas 04 22,391 Texas 05 35,796 Texas 06 36,246 Texas 07 30,599 Texas 08 24,441 Texas 09 48,315 Texas 10 19,336 Texas 11 37,257 Texas 12 37,892 Texas 13 39,205 Texas 14 43,569 Texas 15 91,964 Texas 16 79,594 Texas 17 38,660 Texas 18 55,127 Texas 19 33,181 Texas 20 76,781 Texas 21 23,727 Texas 22 18,290 Texas 23 48,673 Texas 24 18,397 Texas 25 35,905 Texas 26 17,645 Texas 27 58,601 Texas 28 88,006 10 Texas 29 44,653 Texas 30 72,472 Texas 31 28,862 Texas 32 53,871 Texas 33 71,000 Texas 34 112,739 Texas 35 66,159 Texas 36 36,583 Texas 37 25,570 Texas 38 16,766 Texas Total 1,663,662 Utah 01 18,233 Utah 02 24,595 Utah 03 14,126 Utah 04 14,338 Utah Total 71,292 Vermont Total AL 25,040 Virginia 01 25,995 Virginia 02 45,582 Virginia 03 94,524 Virginia 04 71,281 Virginia 05 44,279 Virginia 06 41,897 Virginia 07 25,743 Virginia 08 26,136 Virginia 09 56,347 Virginia 10 10,024 Virginia 11 13,679 Virginia Total 455,487 Washington 01 15,026 Washington 02 27,271 Washington 03 36,539 Washington 04 63,706 Washington 05 43,817 Washington 06 34,138 Washington 07 26,683 Washington 08 20,366 Washington 09 37,673 Washington 10 33,527 Washington Total 338,746 West Virginia 01 73,004 West Virginia 02 51,536 West Virginia Total 124,540 11 Wisconsin 01 59,603 Wisconsin 02 37,704 Wisconsin 03 41,658 Wisconsin 04 121,061 Wisconsin 05 32,259 Wisconsin 06 44,450 Wisconsin 07 40,700 Wisconsin 08 43,723 Wisconsin Total 421,158 Wyoming Total AL 21,355 Puerto Rico Total NA 651,521 American Samoa Total NA 1,629 Guam Total NA 1,186 Northern Mariana Islands Total NA 2,877 Virgin Islands Total NA 5,096 12 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRWOMAN February 1, 2024 The Honorable Frank Pallone Ranking Member Committee on Energy and Commerce U.S. House of Representatives 2322 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Ranking Member Pallone: I am writing to keep you updated regarding the status of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). I last wrote you on January 8, 2024 to explain that the remaining funding we have for the ACP—the largest and most successful broadband affordability program in our Nation’s history—is insufficient to support consumers who count on this program beyond April 2024. There is broad-based support for additional funding for the ACP.16 Since I last wrote, on January 10, 2024, the bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act was introduced in the House and Senate and would provide $7 billion in additional funding for the ACP.17 More than 400 entities, including state, local and Tribal governments, non-profit organizations, and service providers have expressed support for the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act.18 My January 8, 2024 letter stressed that more funding is needed to keep the ACP in place, and that absent additional funding, the Commission would need to take steps to start orderly wind-down procedures for the ACP. Accordingly, on January 11, 2024, the Commission issued guidance to ACP providers and other stakeholders to start the orderly procedures to wind-down the ACP. 19 This guidance requires providers to send multiple written notices to ACP subscribers regarding the end of the program. To this end, by January 25, 2024, providers were required to send their ACP subscribers the first notice about the end of the program and the potential impact 16 See, e.g., Letter from 174 Bipartisan Mayors to Speaker Mike Johnson et al., (Jan. 16, 2024), https://knowlegis.cq.com/file/download/Jn2UvBXcokM/2024-usmayors-ACP-SignOn-174.pdf/. 17 Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024 (H.R. 6929/S. 3565) available at https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3565 and https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th- congress/house-bill/6929/titles?s=1&r=14. 18 See, e.g., List of Supporters of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act, https://www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Supporters-of-the-Affordable-Connectivity-Program- Extension-Act.pdf. 19 Affordable Connectivity Program, WC Docket No. 21-450, Order (Jan. 11, 2024), https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-23A1.pdf). Page 2 – The Honorable FrankPallone on their bills. As the wind down proceeds, households enrolled in the ACP will receive additional written notices from providers, as well as the Universal Service Administrative Company, with more detail about the end of the ACP and impact on their bill when the program ceases. The Commission’s January 11, 2024 guidance also announced that the ACP would stop accepting new enrollments on February 8, 2024. As my earlier letter explained, the enrollment freeze is necessary to slow the depletion of the remaining funding and reduce volatility in the program. This step will also stabilize the number of households affected by the end of the ACP and reduce consumer confusion. Following the enrollment freeze, the Commission will finalize its projection of the end date of the ACP. It bears repeating that today nearly 23 million households nationwide are enrolled in and benefitting from the ACP. In order to provide you with more detail about the distribution of this program and the many households that count on it to get online and stay online, attached is public information regarding ACP enrollments, with data for each state, territory, and congressional district. Without additional funding for the ACP, these households will lose an important benefit and are at risk of losing the internet service they rely on for work, school, health care and more. In fact, based on the results from a recent Commission survey of ACP subscribers, nearly three- quarters of households use their ACP-funded internet for health care, approximately half use it for employment, and approximately three-quarters of ACP subscribers between 18 and 24 years of age use it for school. The survey results further indicate that if the ACP ends, more than three- quarters of the households that count on this program would experience service disruption or would have to change their existing plan or stop service altogether. These survey results are consistent with other survey data showing that many ACP households will struggle to afford internet if they no longer receive the ACP benefit.20 I hope you find this information helpful. The Commission stands ready to assist Congress with any efforts to fully fund the ACP into the future. Sincerely, Jessica Rosenworcel 20 Benenson Strategy Group, The Impact and Importance of the Affordable Connectivity Program, https://www.bsgco.com/acp-fact-sheet (describing October 2023 survey indicating that 95% of ACP households will struggle with costs if the ACP ends, and that the majority of ACP households fear that the end of the ACP could cause job loss or loss of primary source of income, reduce access to health care, and cause children to fall behind in school). ACP Enrollment Data as of January 1, 2024 Congressional Total ACP Households as of Jan.1, State District 2024 Alabama 01 46,240 Alabama 02 68,263 Alabama 03 61,440 Alabama 04 58,504 Alabama 05 36,363 Alabama 06 38,661 Alabama 07 97,155 Alabama Total 406,626 Alaska Total AL 22,507 Arizona 01 39,342 Arizona 02 58,979 Arizona 03 92,311 Arizona 04 53,283 Arizona 05 23,958 Arizona 06 49,404 Arizona 07 103,006 Arizona 08 50,374 Arizona 09 47,846 Arizona Total 518,503 Arkansas 01 57,812 Arkansas 02 44,548 Arkansas 03 51,971 Arkansas 04 55,984 Arkansas Total 210,315 California 01 57,592 California 02 26,124 California 03 19,889 California 04 25,743 California 05 36,746 California 06 50,442 California 07 47,215 California 08 38,274 California 09 45,472 California 10 14,466 California 11 38,796 California 12 39,686 California 13 60,792 California 14 21,881 California 15 19,089 California 16 16,268 1 California 17 17,140 California 18 40,499 California 19 22,480 California 20 53,051 California 21 84,518 California 22 103,807 California 23 88,415 California 24 37,392 California 25 107,592 California 26 39,318 California 27 67,076 California 28 46,596 California 29 87,411 California 30 60,112 California 31 78,308 California 32 41,774 California 33 95,701 California 34 95,673 California 35 72,594 California 36 26,901 California 37 102,359 California 38 53,255 California 39 78,849 California 40 25,953 California 41 49,512 California 42 82,946 California 43 99,168 California 44 72,606 California 45 57,689 California 46 76,421 California 47 29,563 California 48 40,503 California 49 32,792 California 50 40,548 California 51 52,918 California 52 78,783 California Total 2,798,698 Colorado 01 44,347 Colorado 02 16,185 Colorado 03 50,201 Colorado 04 17,009 Colorado 05 29,983 Colorado 06 29,809 2 Colorado 07 23,658 Colorado 08 30,727 Colorado Total 241,919 Connecticut 01 48,649 Connecticut 02 31,261 Connecticut 03 37,510 Connecticut 04 24,896 Connecticut 05 39,232 Connecticut Total 181,548 Delaware Total AL 50,541 District of Columbia Total NA 61,244 Florida 01 56,007 Florida 02 52,881 Florida 03 72,392 Florida 04 69,405 Florida 05 29,127 Florida 06 79,724 Florida 07 66,757 Florida 08 63,473 Florida 09 80,600 Florida 10 98,243 Florida 11 45,550 Florida 12 86,857 Florida 13 67,716 Florida 14 102,792 Florida 15 84,696 Florida 16 53,601 Florida 17 29,784 Florida 18 84,646 Florida 19 24,795 Florida 20 67,590 Florida 21 30,637 Florida 22 38,382 Florida 23 21,733 Florida 24 74,611 Florida 25 28,192 Florida 26 63,433 Florida 27 50,327 Florida 28 58,936 Florida Total 1,682,887 Georgia 01 47,486 Georgia 02 97,545 Georgia 03 56,116 3 Georgia 04 49,822 Georgia 05 64,368 Georgia 06 10,413 Georgia 07 25,812 Georgia 08 67,514 Georgia 09 33,058 Georgia 10 50,038 Georgia 11 23,353 Georgia 12 61,627 Georgia 13 59,400 Georgia 14 51,464 Georgia Total 698,016 Hawaii 01 26,593 Hawaii 02 32,035 Hawaii Total 58,628 Idaho 01 27,670 Idaho 02 23,896 Idaho Total 51,566 Illinois 01 78,809 Illinois 02 75,051 Illinois 03 29,549 Illinois 04 34,112 Illinois 05 14,923 Illinois 06 20,608 Illinois 07 82,118 Illinois 08 17,790 Illinois 09 25,080 Illinois 10 20,296 Illinois 11 17,210 Illinois 12 45,472 Illinois 13 76,604 Illinois 14 25,274 Illinois 15 30,296 Illinois 16 23,916 Illinois 17 57,954 Illinois Total 675,062 Indiana 01 43,804 Indiana 02 36,324 Indiana 03 35,729 Indiana 04 27,138 Indiana 05 40,977 Indiana 06 39,175 Indiana 07 85,150 4 Indiana 08 59,301 Indiana 09 45,433 Indiana Total 413,031 Iowa 01 31,474 Iowa 02 29,540 Iowa 03 32,086 Iowa 04 26,924 Iowa Total 120,024 Kansas 01 27,643 Kansas 02 42,593 Kansas 03 17,123 Kansas 04 45,590 Kansas Total 132,949 Kentucky 01 65,588 Kentucky 02 63,584 Kentucky 03 85,061 Kentucky 04 51,882 Kentucky 05 108,818 Kentucky 06 71,465 Kentucky Total 446,398 Louisiana 01 68,100 Louisiana 02 134,153 Louisiana 03 86,500 Louisiana 04 87,987 Louisiana 05 95,553 Louisiana 06 74,866 Louisiana Total 547,159 Maine 01 36,188 Maine 02 60,964 Maine Total 97,152 Maryland 01 33,214 Maryland 02 30,650 Maryland 03 19,730 Maryland 04 33,034 Maryland 05 19,875 Maryland 06 28,017 Maryland 07 95,467 Maryland 08 15,882 Maryland Total 275,869 Massachusetts 01 72,258 Massachusetts 02 51,319 Massachusetts 03 41,151 Massachusetts 04 28,364 5 Massachusetts 05 21,006 Massachusetts 06 23,632 Massachusetts 07 55,988 Massachusetts 08 35,710 Massachusetts 09 28,130 Massachusetts Total 357,558 Michigan 01 70,421 Michigan 02 64,053 Michigan 03 50,739 Michigan 04 64,454 Michigan 05 52,122 Michigan 06 31,841 Michigan 07 42,247 Michigan 08 99,770 Michigan 09 39,576 Michigan 10 68,375 Michigan 11 46,931 Michigan 12 116,882 Michigan 13 137,586 Michigan Total 884,997 Minnesota 01 34,242 Minnesota 02 19,319 Minnesota 03 19,250 Minnesota 04 38,758 Minnesota 05 42,681 Minnesota 06 24,579 Minnesota 07 26,980 Minnesota 08 33,512 Minnesota Total 239,321 Mississippi 01 45,641 Mississippi 02 93,015 Mississippi 03 49,087 Mississippi 04 51,211 Mississippi Total 238,954 Missouri 01 102,244 Missouri 02 25,814 Missouri 03 32,934 Missouri 04 35,844 Missouri 05 59,393 Missouri 06 32,312 Missouri 07 35,164 Missouri 08 62,325 Missouri Total 386,030 6 Montana 01 25,964 Montana 02 28,071 Montana Total 54,035 Nebraska 01 30,993 Nebraska 02 37,073 Nebraska 03 27,225 Nebraska Total 95,291 Nevada 01 89,861 Nevada 02 51,561 Nevada 03 51,503 Nevada 04 76,365 Nevada Total 269,290 New Hampshire 01 17,803 New Hampshire 02 20,125 New Hampshire Total 37,928 New Jersey 01 35,412 New Jersey 02 35,347 New Jersey 03 15,536 New Jersey 04 17,994 New Jersey 05 12,846 New Jersey 06 23,976 New Jersey 07 10,232 New Jersey 08 37,561 New Jersey 09 38,289 New Jersey 10 62,832 New Jersey 11 10,691 New Jersey 12 21,574 New Jersey Total 322,290 New Mexico 01 47,207 New Mexico 02 69,686 New Mexico 03 61,337 New Mexico Total 178,230 New York 01 13,182 New York 02 26,466 New York 03 17,680 New York 04 20,947 New York 05 78,778 New York 06 63,266 New York 07 77,426 New York 08 94,021 New York 09 61,956 New York 10 62,721 New York 11 55,507 7 New York 12 43,980 New York 13 153,689 New York 14 84,095 New York 15 134,805 New York 16 45,709 New York 17 22,333 New York 18 46,641 New York 19 66,039 New York 20 68,755 New York 21 68,527 New York 22 79,619 New York 23 63,410 New York 24 69,666 New York 25 79,033 New York 26 99,338 New York Total 1,697,589 North Carolina 01 79,728 North Carolina 02 33,491 North Carolina 03 61,052 North Carolina 04 58,140 North Carolina 05 70,655 North Carolina 06 79,157 North Carolina 07 82,135 North Carolina 08 66,190 North Carolina 09 73,797 North Carolina 10 71,930 North Carolina 11 43,749 North Carolina 12 59,695 North Carolina 13 55,440 North Carolina 14 52,646 North Carolina Total 887,805 North Dakota Total AL 16,904 Ohio 01 76,128 Ohio 02 78,625 Ohio 03 80,242 Ohio 04 64,265 Ohio 05 69,271 Ohio 06 68,025 Ohio 07 37,913 Ohio 08 67,294 Ohio 09 72,943 Ohio 10 98,847 Ohio 11 133,142 8 Ohio 12 66,864 Ohio 13 86,012 Ohio 14 70,276 Ohio 15 70,059 Ohio Total 1,139,906 Oklahoma 01 87,903 Oklahoma 02 76,137 Oklahoma 03 62,822 Oklahoma 04 60,450 Oklahoma 05 59,972 Oklahoma Total 347,284 Oregon 01 28,415 Oregon 02 54,911 Oregon 03 37,198 Oregon 04 50,463 Oregon 05 24,187 Oregon 06 28,770 Oregon Total 223,944 Pennsylvania 01 17,466 Pennsylvania 02 85,063 Pennsylvania 03 92,112 Pennsylvania 04 17,913 Pennsylvania 05 44,447 Pennsylvania 06 28,555 Pennsylvania 07 40,823 Pennsylvania 08 48,959 Pennsylvania 09 39,128 Pennsylvania 10 41,600 Pennsylvania 11 27,057 Pennsylvania 12 50,365 Pennsylvania 13 35,993 Pennsylvania 14 42,065 Pennsylvania 15 32,975 Pennsylvania 16 61,584 Pennsylvania 17 29,826 Pennsylvania Total 735,931 Rhode Island 01 46,596 Rhode Island 02 36,770 Rhode Island Total 83,366 South Carolina 01 25,050 South Carolina 02 53,160 South Carolina 03 62,484 South Carolina 04 66,924 9 South Carolina 05 52,174 South Carolina 06 79,883 South Carolina 07 83,349 South Carolina Total 423,024 South Dakota Total AL 23,176 Tennessee 01 66,446 Tennessee 02 39,997 Tennessee 03 44,105 Tennessee 04 43,488 Tennessee 05 23,083 Tennessee 06 42,359 Tennessee 07 37,402 Tennessee 08 53,284 Tennessee 09 70,931 Tennessee Total 421,095 Texas 01 34,203 Texas 02 21,080 Texas 03 20,106 Texas 04 22,391 Texas 05 35,796 Texas 06 36,246 Texas 07 30,599 Texas 08 24,441 Texas 09 48,315 Texas 10 19,336 Texas 11 37,257 Texas 12 37,892 Texas 13 39,205 Texas 14 43,569 Texas 15 91,964 Texas 16 79,594 Texas 17 38,660 Texas 18 55,127 Texas 19 33,181 Texas 20 76,781 Texas 21 23,727 Texas 22 18,290 Texas 23 48,673 Texas 24 18,397 Texas 25 35,905 Texas 26 17,645 Texas 27 58,601 Texas 28 88,006 10 Texas 29 44,653 Texas 30 72,472 Texas 31 28,862 Texas 32 53,871 Texas 33 71,000 Texas 34 112,739 Texas 35 66,159 Texas 36 36,583 Texas 37 25,570 Texas 38 16,766 Texas Total 1,663,662 Utah 01 18,233 Utah 02 24,595 Utah 03 14,126 Utah 04 14,338 Utah Total 71,292 Vermont Total AL 25,040 Virginia 01 25,995 Virginia 02 45,582 Virginia 03 94,524 Virginia 04 71,281 Virginia 05 44,279 Virginia 06 41,897 Virginia 07 25,743 Virginia 08 26,136 Virginia 09 56,347 Virginia 10 10,024 Virginia 11 13,679 Virginia Total 455,487 Washington 01 15,026 Washington 02 27,271 Washington 03 36,539 Washington 04 63,706 Washington 05 43,817 Washington 06 34,138 Washington 07 26,683 Washington 08 20,366 Washington 09 37,673 Washington 10 33,527 Washington Total 338,746 West Virginia 01 73,004 West Virginia 02 51,536 West Virginia Total 124,540 11 Wisconsin 01 59,603 Wisconsin 02 37,704 Wisconsin 03 41,658 Wisconsin 04 121,061 Wisconsin 05 32,259 Wisconsin 06 44,450 Wisconsin 07 40,700 Wisconsin 08 43,723 Wisconsin Total 421,158 Wyoming Total AL 21,355 Puerto Rico Total NA 651,521 American Samoa Total NA 1,629 Guam Total NA 1,186 Northern Mariana Islands Total NA 2,877 Virgin Islands Total NA 5,096 12 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRWOMAN February 1, 2024 The Honorable Chris Van Hollen Chairman Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Committee on Appropriations United States Senate S-128 The Capital Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Chairman Van Hollen: I am writing to keep you updated regarding the status of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). I last wrote you on January 8, 2024 to explain that the remaining funding we have for the ACP—the largest and most successful broadband affordability program in our Nation’s history—is insufficient to support consumers who count on this program beyond April 2024. There is broad-based support for additional funding for the ACP.31 Since I last wrote, on January 10, 2024, the bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act was introduced in the House and Senate and would provide $7 billion in additional funding for the ACP.32 More than 400 entities, including state, local and Tribal governments, non-profit organizations, and service providers have expressed support for the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act.33 My January 8, 2024 letter stressed that more funding is needed to keep the ACP in place, and that absent additional funding, the Commission would need to take steps to start orderly wind-down procedures for the ACP. Accordingly, on January 11, 2024, the Commission issued guidance to ACP providers and other stakeholders to start the orderly procedures to wind-down the ACP. 34 This guidance requires providers to send multiple written notices to ACP subscribers regarding the end of the program. To this end, by January 25, 2024, providers were required to 31 See, e.g., Letter from 174 Bipartisan Mayors to Speaker Mike Johnson et al., (Jan. 16, 2024), https://knowlegis.cq.com/file/download/Jn2UvBXcokM/2024-usmayors-ACP-SignOn-174.pdf/. 32 Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024 (H.R. 6929/S. 3565) available at https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3565 and https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th- congress/house-bill/6929/titles?s=1&r=14. 33 See, e.g., List of Supporters of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act, https://www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Supporters-of-the-Affordable-Connectivity-Program- Extension-Act.pdf. 34 Affordable Connectivity Program, WC Docket No. 21-450, Order (Jan. 11, 2024), https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-23A1.pdf). Page 2 – The Honorable ChrisVan Hollen send their ACP subscribers the first notice about the end of the program and the potential impact on their bills. As the wind down proceeds, households enrolled in the ACP will receive additional written notices from providers, as well as the Universal Service Administrative Company, with more detail about the end of the ACP and impact on their bill when the program ceases. The Commission’s January 11, 2024 guidance also announced that the ACP would stop accepting new enrollments on February 8, 2024. As my earlier letter explained, the enrollment freeze is necessary to slow the depletion of the remaining funding and reduce volatility in the program. This step will also stabilize the number of households affected by the end of the ACP and reduce consumer confusion. Following the enrollment freeze, the Commission will finalize its projection of the end date of the ACP. It bears repeating that today nearly 23 million households nationwide are enrolled in and benefitting from the ACP. In order to provide you with more detail about the distribution of this program and the many households that count on it to get online and stay online, attached is public information regarding ACP enrollments, with data for each state, territory, and congressional district. Without additional funding for the ACP, these households will lose an important benefit and are at risk of losing the internet service they rely on for work, school, health care and more. In fact, based on the results from a recent Commission survey of ACP subscribers, nearly three- quarters of households use their ACP-funded internet for health care, approximately half use it for employment, and approximately three-quarters of ACP subscribers between 18 and 24 years of age use it for school. The survey results further indicate that if the ACP ends, more than three- quarters of the households that count on this program would experience service disruption or would have to change their existing plan or stop service altogether. These survey results are consistent with other survey data showing that many ACP households will struggle to afford internet if they no longer receive the ACP benefit.35 I hope you find this information helpful. The Commission stands ready to assist Congress with any efforts to fully fund the ACP into the future. Sincerely, Jessica Rosenworcel 35 Benenson Strategy Group, The Impact and Importance of the Affordable Connectivity Program, https://www.bsgco.com/acp-fact-sheet (describing October 2023 survey indicating that 95% of ACP households will struggle with costs if the ACP ends, and that the majority of ACP households fear that the end of the ACP could cause job loss or loss of primary source of income, reduce access to health care, and cause children to fall behind in school). ACP Enrollment Data as of January 1, 2024 Congressional Total ACP Households as of Jan.1, State District 2024 Alabama 01 46,240 Alabama 02 68,263 Alabama 03 61,440 Alabama 04 58,504 Alabama 05 36,363 Alabama 06 38,661 Alabama 07 97,155 Alabama Total 406,626 Alaska Total AL 22,507 Arizona 01 39,342 Arizona 02 58,979 Arizona 03 92,311 Arizona 04 53,283 Arizona 05 23,958 Arizona 06 49,404 Arizona 07 103,006 Arizona 08 50,374 Arizona 09 47,846 Arizona Total 518,503 Arkansas 01 57,812 Arkansas 02 44,548 Arkansas 03 51,971 Arkansas 04 55,984 Arkansas Total 210,315 California 01 57,592 California 02 26,124 California 03 19,889 California 04 25,743 California 05 36,746 California 06 50,442 California 07 47,215 California 08 38,274 California 09 45,472 California 10 14,466 California 11 38,796 California 12 39,686 California 13 60,792 California 14 21,881 California 15 19,089 California 16 16,268 1 California 17 17,140 California 18 40,499 California 19 22,480 California 20 53,051 California 21 84,518 California 22 103,807 California 23 88,415 California 24 37,392 California 25 107,592 California 26 39,318 California 27 67,076 California 28 46,596 California 29 87,411 California 30 60,112 California 31 78,308 California 32 41,774 California 33 95,701 California 34 95,673 California 35 72,594 California 36 26,901 California 37 102,359 California 38 53,255 California 39 78,849 California 40 25,953 California 41 49,512 California 42 82,946 California 43 99,168 California 44 72,606 California 45 57,689 California 46 76,421 California 47 29,563 California 48 40,503 California 49 32,792 California 50 40,548 California 51 52,918 California 52 78,783 California Total 2,798,698 Colorado 01 44,347 Colorado 02 16,185 Colorado 03 50,201 Colorado 04 17,009 Colorado 05 29,983 Colorado 06 29,809 2 Colorado 07 23,658 Colorado 08 30,727 Colorado Total 241,919 Connecticut 01 48,649 Connecticut 02 31,261 Connecticut 03 37,510 Connecticut 04 24,896 Connecticut 05 39,232 Connecticut Total 181,548 Delaware Total AL 50,541 District of Columbia Total NA 61,244 Florida 01 56,007 Florida 02 52,881 Florida 03 72,392 Florida 04 69,405 Florida 05 29,127 Florida 06 79,724 Florida 07 66,757 Florida 08 63,473 Florida 09 80,600 Florida 10 98,243 Florida 11 45,550 Florida 12 86,857 Florida 13 67,716 Florida 14 102,792 Florida 15 84,696 Florida 16 53,601 Florida 17 29,784 Florida 18 84,646 Florida 19 24,795 Florida 20 67,590 Florida 21 30,637 Florida 22 38,382 Florida 23 21,733 Florida 24 74,611 Florida 25 28,192 Florida 26 63,433 Florida 27 50,327 Florida 28 58,936 Florida Total 1,682,887 Georgia 01 47,486 Georgia 02 97,545 Georgia 03 56,116 3 Georgia 04 49,822 Georgia 05 64,368 Georgia 06 10,413 Georgia 07 25,812 Georgia 08 67,514 Georgia 09 33,058 Georgia 10 50,038 Georgia 11 23,353 Georgia 12 61,627 Georgia 13 59,400 Georgia 14 51,464 Georgia Total 698,016 Hawaii 01 26,593 Hawaii 02 32,035 Hawaii Total 58,628 Idaho 01 27,670 Idaho 02 23,896 Idaho Total 51,566 Illinois 01 78,809 Illinois 02 75,051 Illinois 03 29,549 Illinois 04 34,112 Illinois 05 14,923 Illinois 06 20,608 Illinois 07 82,118 Illinois 08 17,790 Illinois 09 25,080 Illinois 10 20,296 Illinois 11 17,210 Illinois 12 45,472 Illinois 13 76,604 Illinois 14 25,274 Illinois 15 30,296 Illinois 16 23,916 Illinois 17 57,954 Illinois Total 675,062 Indiana 01 43,804 Indiana 02 36,324 Indiana 03 35,729 Indiana 04 27,138 Indiana 05 40,977 Indiana 06 39,175 Indiana 07 85,150 4 Indiana 08 59,301 Indiana 09 45,433 Indiana Total 413,031 Iowa 01 31,474 Iowa 02 29,540 Iowa 03 32,086 Iowa 04 26,924 Iowa Total 120,024 Kansas 01 27,643 Kansas 02 42,593 Kansas 03 17,123 Kansas 04 45,590 Kansas Total 132,949 Kentucky 01 65,588 Kentucky 02 63,584 Kentucky 03 85,061 Kentucky 04 51,882 Kentucky 05 108,818 Kentucky 06 71,465 Kentucky Total 446,398 Louisiana 01 68,100 Louisiana 02 134,153 Louisiana 03 86,500 Louisiana 04 87,987 Louisiana 05 95,553 Louisiana 06 74,866 Louisiana Total 547,159 Maine 01 36,188 Maine 02 60,964 Maine Total 97,152 Maryland 01 33,214 Maryland 02 30,650 Maryland 03 19,730 Maryland 04 33,034 Maryland 05 19,875 Maryland 06 28,017 Maryland 07 95,467 Maryland 08 15,882 Maryland Total 275,869 Massachusetts 01 72,258 Massachusetts 02 51,319 Massachusetts 03 41,151 Massachusetts 04 28,364 5 Massachusetts 05 21,006 Massachusetts 06 23,632 Massachusetts 07 55,988 Massachusetts 08 35,710 Massachusetts 09 28,130 Massachusetts Total 357,558 Michigan 01 70,421 Michigan 02 64,053 Michigan 03 50,739 Michigan 04 64,454 Michigan 05 52,122 Michigan 06 31,841 Michigan 07 42,247 Michigan 08 99,770 Michigan 09 39,576 Michigan 10 68,375 Michigan 11 46,931 Michigan 12 116,882 Michigan 13 137,586 Michigan Total 884,997 Minnesota 01 34,242 Minnesota 02 19,319 Minnesota 03 19,250 Minnesota 04 38,758 Minnesota 05 42,681 Minnesota 06 24,579 Minnesota 07 26,980 Minnesota 08 33,512 Minnesota Total 239,321 Mississippi 01 45,641 Mississippi 02 93,015 Mississippi 03 49,087 Mississippi 04 51,211 Mississippi Total 238,954 Missouri 01 102,244 Missouri 02 25,814 Missouri 03 32,934 Missouri 04 35,844 Missouri 05 59,393 Missouri 06 32,312 Missouri 07 35,164 Missouri 08 62,325 Missouri Total 386,030 6 Montana 01 25,964 Montana 02 28,071 Montana Total 54,035 Nebraska 01 30,993 Nebraska 02 37,073 Nebraska 03 27,225 Nebraska Total 95,291 Nevada 01 89,861 Nevada 02 51,561 Nevada 03 51,503 Nevada 04 76,365 Nevada Total 269,290 New Hampshire 01 17,803 New Hampshire 02 20,125 New Hampshire Total 37,928 New Jersey 01 35,412 New Jersey 02 35,347 New Jersey 03 15,536 New Jersey 04 17,994 New Jersey 05 12,846 New Jersey 06 23,976 New Jersey 07 10,232 New Jersey 08 37,561 New Jersey 09 38,289 New Jersey 10 62,832 New Jersey 11 10,691 New Jersey 12 21,574 New Jersey Total 322,290 New Mexico 01 47,207 New Mexico 02 69,686 New Mexico 03 61,337 New Mexico Total 178,230 New York 01 13,182 New York 02 26,466 New York 03 17,680 New York 04 20,947 New York 05 78,778 New York 06 63,266 New York 07 77,426 New York 08 94,021 New York 09 61,956 New York 10 62,721 New York 11 55,507 7 New York 12 43,980 New York 13 153,689 New York 14 84,095 New York 15 134,805 New York 16 45,709 New York 17 22,333 New York 18 46,641 New York 19 66,039 New York 20 68,755 New York 21 68,527 New York 22 79,619 New York 23 63,410 New York 24 69,666 New York 25 79,033 New York 26 99,338 New York Total 1,697,589 North Carolina 01 79,728 North Carolina 02 33,491 North Carolina 03 61,052 North Carolina 04 58,140 North Carolina 05 70,655 North Carolina 06 79,157 North Carolina 07 82,135 North Carolina 08 66,190 North Carolina 09 73,797 North Carolina 10 71,930 North Carolina 11 43,749 North Carolina 12 59,695 North Carolina 13 55,440 North Carolina 14 52,646 North Carolina Total 887,805 North Dakota Total AL 16,904 Ohio 01 76,128 Ohio 02 78,625 Ohio 03 80,242 Ohio 04 64,265 Ohio 05 69,271 Ohio 06 68,025 Ohio 07 37,913 Ohio 08 67,294 Ohio 09 72,943 Ohio 10 98,847 Ohio 11 133,142 8 Ohio 12 66,864 Ohio 13 86,012 Ohio 14 70,276 Ohio 15 70,059 Ohio Total 1,139,906 Oklahoma 01 87,903 Oklahoma 02 76,137 Oklahoma 03 62,822 Oklahoma 04 60,450 Oklahoma 05 59,972 Oklahoma Total 347,284 Oregon 01 28,415 Oregon 02 54,911 Oregon 03 37,198 Oregon 04 50,463 Oregon 05 24,187 Oregon 06 28,770 Oregon Total 223,944 Pennsylvania 01 17,466 Pennsylvania 02 85,063 Pennsylvania 03 92,112 Pennsylvania 04 17,913 Pennsylvania 05 44,447 Pennsylvania 06 28,555 Pennsylvania 07 40,823 Pennsylvania 08 48,959 Pennsylvania 09 39,128 Pennsylvania 10 41,600 Pennsylvania 11 27,057 Pennsylvania 12 50,365 Pennsylvania 13 35,993 Pennsylvania 14 42,065 Pennsylvania 15 32,975 Pennsylvania 16 61,584 Pennsylvania 17 29,826 Pennsylvania Total 735,931 Rhode Island 01 46,596 Rhode Island 02 36,770 Rhode Island Total 83,366 South Carolina 01 25,050 South Carolina 02 53,160 South Carolina 03 62,484 South Carolina 04 66,924 9 South Carolina 05 52,174 South Carolina 06 79,883 South Carolina 07 83,349 South Carolina Total 423,024 South Dakota Total AL 23,176 Tennessee 01 66,446 Tennessee 02 39,997 Tennessee 03 44,105 Tennessee 04 43,488 Tennessee 05 23,083 Tennessee 06 42,359 Tennessee 07 37,402 Tennessee 08 53,284 Tennessee 09 70,931 Tennessee Total 421,095 Texas 01 34,203 Texas 02 21,080 Texas 03 20,106 Texas 04 22,391 Texas 05 35,796 Texas 06 36,246 Texas 07 30,599 Texas 08 24,441 Texas 09 48,315 Texas 10 19,336 Texas 11 37,257 Texas 12 37,892 Texas 13 39,205 Texas 14 43,569 Texas 15 91,964 Texas 16 79,594 Texas 17 38,660 Texas 18 55,127 Texas 19 33,181 Texas 20 76,781 Texas 21 23,727 Texas 22 18,290 Texas 23 48,673 Texas 24 18,397 Texas 25 35,905 Texas 26 17,645 Texas 27 58,601 Texas 28 88,006 10 Texas 29 44,653 Texas 30 72,472 Texas 31 28,862 Texas 32 53,871 Texas 33 71,000 Texas 34 112,739 Texas 35 66,159 Texas 36 36,583 Texas 37 25,570 Texas 38 16,766 Texas Total 1,663,662 Utah 01 18,233 Utah 02 24,595 Utah 03 14,126 Utah 04 14,338 Utah Total 71,292 Vermont Total AL 25,040 Virginia 01 25,995 Virginia 02 45,582 Virginia 03 94,524 Virginia 04 71,281 Virginia 05 44,279 Virginia 06 41,897 Virginia 07 25,743 Virginia 08 26,136 Virginia 09 56,347 Virginia 10 10,024 Virginia 11 13,679 Virginia Total 455,487 Washington 01 15,026 Washington 02 27,271 Washington 03 36,539 Washington 04 63,706 Washington 05 43,817 Washington 06 34,138 Washington 07 26,683 Washington 08 20,366 Washington 09 37,673 Washington 10 33,527 Washington Total 338,746 West Virginia 01 73,004 West Virginia 02 51,536 West Virginia Total 124,540 11 Wisconsin 01 59,603 Wisconsin 02 37,704 Wisconsin 03 41,658 Wisconsin 04 121,061 Wisconsin 05 32,259 Wisconsin 06 44,450 Wisconsin 07 40,700 Wisconsin 08 43,723 Wisconsin Total 421,158 Wyoming Total AL 21,355 Puerto Rico Total NA 651,521 American Samoa Total NA 1,629 Guam Total NA 1,186 Northern Mariana Islands Total NA 2,877 Virgin Islands Total NA 5,096 12 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRWOMAN February 1, 2024 The Honorable Bill Hagerty Ranking Member Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Committee on Appropriations United States Senate 125 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Ranking Member Hagerty: I am writing to keep you updated regarding the status of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). I last wrote you on January 8, 2024 to explain that the remaining funding we have for the ACP—the largest and most successful broadband affordability program in our Nation’s history—is insufficient to support consumers who count on this program beyond April 2024. There is broad-based support for additional funding for the ACP.36 Since I last wrote, on January 10, 2024, the bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act was introduced in the House and Senate and would provide $7 billion in additional funding for the ACP.37 More than 400 entities, including state, local and Tribal governments, non-profit organizations, and service providers have expressed support for the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act.38 My January 8, 2024 letter stressed that more funding is needed to keep the ACP in place, and that absent additional funding, the Commission would need to take steps to start orderly wind-down procedures for the ACP. Accordingly, on January 11, 2024, the Commission issued guidance to ACP providers and other stakeholders to start the orderly procedures to wind-down the ACP. 39 This guidance requires providers to send multiple written notices to ACP subscribers regarding the end of the program. To this end, by January 25, 2024, providers were required to 36 See, e.g., Letter from 174 Bipartisan Mayors to Speaker Mike Johnson et al., (Jan. 16, 2024), https://knowlegis.cq.com/file/download/Jn2UvBXcokM/2024-usmayors-ACP-SignOn-174.pdf/. 37 Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024 (H.R. 6929/S. 3565) available at https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3565 and https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th- congress/house-bill/6929/titles?s=1&r=14. 38 See, e.g., List of Supporters of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act, https://www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Supporters-of-the-Affordable-Connectivity-Program- Extension-Act.pdf. 39 Affordable Connectivity Program, WC Docket No. 21-450, Order (Jan. 11, 2024), https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-23A1.pdf). Page 2 – The Honorable BillHagerty send their ACP subscribers the first notice about the end of the program and the potential impact on their bills. As the wind down proceeds, households enrolled in the ACP will receive additional written notices from providers, as well as the Universal Service Administrative Company, with more detail about the end of the ACP and impact on their bill when the program ceases. The Commission’s January 11, 2024 guidance also announced that the ACP would stop accepting new enrollments on February 8, 2024. As my earlier letter explained, the enrollment freeze is necessary to slow the depletion of the remaining funding and reduce volatility in the program. This step will also stabilize the number of households affected by the end of the ACP and reduce consumer confusion. Following the enrollment freeze, the Commission will finalize its projection of the end date of the ACP. It bears repeating that today nearly 23 million households nationwide are enrolled in and benefitting from the ACP. In order to provide you with more detail about the distribution of this program and the many households that count on it to get online and stay online, attached is public information regarding ACP enrollments, with data for each state, territory, and congressional district. Without additional funding for the ACP, these households will lose an important benefit and are at risk of losing the internet service they rely on for work, school, health care and more. In fact, based on the results from a recent Commission survey of ACP subscribers, nearly three- quarters of households use their ACP-funded internet for health care, approximately half use it for employment, and approximately three-quarters of ACP subscribers between 18 and 24 years of age use it for school. The survey results further indicate that if the ACP ends, more than three- quarters of the households that count on this program would experience service disruption or would have to change their existing plan or stop service altogether. These survey results are consistent with other survey data showing that many ACP households will struggle to afford internet if they no longer receive the ACP benefit.40 I hope you find this information helpful. The Commission stands ready to assist Congress with any efforts to fully fund the ACP into the future. Sincerely, Jessica Rosenworcel 40 Benenson Strategy Group, The Impact and Importance of the Affordable Connectivity Program, https://www.bsgco.com/acp-fact-sheet (describing October 2023 survey indicating that 95% of ACP households will struggle with costs if the ACP ends, and that the majority of ACP households fear that the end of the ACP could cause job loss or loss of primary source of income, reduce access to health care, and cause children to fall behind in school). ACP Enrollment Data as of January 1, 2024 Congressional Total ACP Households as of Jan.1, State District 2024 Alabama 01 46,240 Alabama 02 68,263 Alabama 03 61,440 Alabama 04 58,504 Alabama 05 36,363 Alabama 06 38,661 Alabama 07 97,155 Alabama Total 406,626 Alaska Total AL 22,507 Arizona 01 39,342 Arizona 02 58,979 Arizona 03 92,311 Arizona 04 53,283 Arizona 05 23,958 Arizona 06 49,404 Arizona 07 103,006 Arizona 08 50,374 Arizona 09 47,846 Arizona Total 518,503 Arkansas 01 57,812 Arkansas 02 44,548 Arkansas 03 51,971 Arkansas 04 55,984 Arkansas Total 210,315 California 01 57,592 California 02 26,124 California 03 19,889 California 04 25,743 California 05 36,746 California 06 50,442 California 07 47,215 California 08 38,274 California 09 45,472 California 10 14,466 California 11 38,796 California 12 39,686 California 13 60,792 California 14 21,881 California 15 19,089 California 16 16,268 1 California 17 17,140 California 18 40,499 California 19 22,480 California 20 53,051 California 21 84,518 California 22 103,807 California 23 88,415 California 24 37,392 California 25 107,592 California 26 39,318 California 27 67,076 California 28 46,596 California 29 87,411 California 30 60,112 California 31 78,308 California 32 41,774 California 33 95,701 California 34 95,673 California 35 72,594 California 36 26,901 California 37 102,359 California 38 53,255 California 39 78,849 California 40 25,953 California 41 49,512 California 42 82,946 California 43 99,168 California 44 72,606 California 45 57,689 California 46 76,421 California 47 29,563 California 48 40,503 California 49 32,792 California 50 40,548 California 51 52,918 California 52 78,783 California Total 2,798,698 Colorado 01 44,347 Colorado 02 16,185 Colorado 03 50,201 Colorado 04 17,009 Colorado 05 29,983 Colorado 06 29,809 2 Colorado 07 23,658 Colorado 08 30,727 Colorado Total 241,919 Connecticut 01 48,649 Connecticut 02 31,261 Connecticut 03 37,510 Connecticut 04 24,896 Connecticut 05 39,232 Connecticut Total 181,548 Delaware Total AL 50,541 District of Columbia Total NA 61,244 Florida 01 56,007 Florida 02 52,881 Florida 03 72,392 Florida 04 69,405 Florida 05 29,127 Florida 06 79,724 Florida 07 66,757 Florida 08 63,473 Florida 09 80,600 Florida 10 98,243 Florida 11 45,550 Florida 12 86,857 Florida 13 67,716 Florida 14 102,792 Florida 15 84,696 Florida 16 53,601 Florida 17 29,784 Florida 18 84,646 Florida 19 24,795 Florida 20 67,590 Florida 21 30,637 Florida 22 38,382 Florida 23 21,733 Florida 24 74,611 Florida 25 28,192 Florida 26 63,433 Florida 27 50,327 Florida 28 58,936 Florida Total 1,682,887 Georgia 01 47,486 Georgia 02 97,545 Georgia 03 56,116 3 Georgia 04 49,822 Georgia 05 64,368 Georgia 06 10,413 Georgia 07 25,812 Georgia 08 67,514 Georgia 09 33,058 Georgia 10 50,038 Georgia 11 23,353 Georgia 12 61,627 Georgia 13 59,400 Georgia 14 51,464 Georgia Total 698,016 Hawaii 01 26,593 Hawaii 02 32,035 Hawaii Total 58,628 Idaho 01 27,670 Idaho 02 23,896 Idaho Total 51,566 Illinois 01 78,809 Illinois 02 75,051 Illinois 03 29,549 Illinois 04 34,112 Illinois 05 14,923 Illinois 06 20,608 Illinois 07 82,118 Illinois 08 17,790 Illinois 09 25,080 Illinois 10 20,296 Illinois 11 17,210 Illinois 12 45,472 Illinois 13 76,604 Illinois 14 25,274 Illinois 15 30,296 Illinois 16 23,916 Illinois 17 57,954 Illinois Total 675,062 Indiana 01 43,804 Indiana 02 36,324 Indiana 03 35,729 Indiana 04 27,138 Indiana 05 40,977 Indiana 06 39,175 Indiana 07 85,150 4 Indiana 08 59,301 Indiana 09 45,433 Indiana Total 413,031 Iowa 01 31,474 Iowa 02 29,540 Iowa 03 32,086 Iowa 04 26,924 Iowa Total 120,024 Kansas 01 27,643 Kansas 02 42,593 Kansas 03 17,123 Kansas 04 45,590 Kansas Total 132,949 Kentucky 01 65,588 Kentucky 02 63,584 Kentucky 03 85,061 Kentucky 04 51,882 Kentucky 05 108,818 Kentucky 06 71,465 Kentucky Total 446,398 Louisiana 01 68,100 Louisiana 02 134,153 Louisiana 03 86,500 Louisiana 04 87,987 Louisiana 05 95,553 Louisiana 06 74,866 Louisiana Total 547,159 Maine 01 36,188 Maine 02 60,964 Maine Total 97,152 Maryland 01 33,214 Maryland 02 30,650 Maryland 03 19,730 Maryland 04 33,034 Maryland 05 19,875 Maryland 06 28,017 Maryland 07 95,467 Maryland 08 15,882 Maryland Total 275,869 Massachusetts 01 72,258 Massachusetts 02 51,319 Massachusetts 03 41,151 Massachusetts 04 28,364 5 Massachusetts 05 21,006 Massachusetts 06 23,632 Massachusetts 07 55,988 Massachusetts 08 35,710 Massachusetts 09 28,130 Massachusetts Total 357,558 Michigan 01 70,421 Michigan 02 64,053 Michigan 03 50,739 Michigan 04 64,454 Michigan 05 52,122 Michigan 06 31,841 Michigan 07 42,247 Michigan 08 99,770 Michigan 09 39,576 Michigan 10 68,375 Michigan 11 46,931 Michigan 12 116,882 Michigan 13 137,586 Michigan Total 884,997 Minnesota 01 34,242 Minnesota 02 19,319 Minnesota 03 19,250 Minnesota 04 38,758 Minnesota 05 42,681 Minnesota 06 24,579 Minnesota 07 26,980 Minnesota 08 33,512 Minnesota Total 239,321 Mississippi 01 45,641 Mississippi 02 93,015 Mississippi 03 49,087 Mississippi 04 51,211 Mississippi Total 238,954 Missouri 01 102,244 Missouri 02 25,814 Missouri 03 32,934 Missouri 04 35,844 Missouri 05 59,393 Missouri 06 32,312 Missouri 07 35,164 Missouri 08 62,325 Missouri Total 386,030 6 Montana 01 25,964 Montana 02 28,071 Montana Total 54,035 Nebraska 01 30,993 Nebraska 02 37,073 Nebraska 03 27,225 Nebraska Total 95,291 Nevada 01 89,861 Nevada 02 51,561 Nevada 03 51,503 Nevada 04 76,365 Nevada Total 269,290 New Hampshire 01 17,803 New Hampshire 02 20,125 New Hampshire Total 37,928 New Jersey 01 35,412 New Jersey 02 35,347 New Jersey 03 15,536 New Jersey 04 17,994 New Jersey 05 12,846 New Jersey 06 23,976 New Jersey 07 10,232 New Jersey 08 37,561 New Jersey 09 38,289 New Jersey 10 62,832 New Jersey 11 10,691 New Jersey 12 21,574 New Jersey Total 322,290 New Mexico 01 47,207 New Mexico 02 69,686 New Mexico 03 61,337 New Mexico Total 178,230 New York 01 13,182 New York 02 26,466 New York 03 17,680 New York 04 20,947 New York 05 78,778 New York 06 63,266 New York 07 77,426 New York 08 94,021 New York 09 61,956 New York 10 62,721 New York 11 55,507 7 New York 12 43,980 New York 13 153,689 New York 14 84,095 New York 15 134,805 New York 16 45,709 New York 17 22,333 New York 18 46,641 New York 19 66,039 New York 20 68,755 New York 21 68,527 New York 22 79,619 New York 23 63,410 New York 24 69,666 New York 25 79,033 New York 26 99,338 New York Total 1,697,589 North Carolina 01 79,728 North Carolina 02 33,491 North Carolina 03 61,052 North Carolina 04 58,140 North Carolina 05 70,655 North Carolina 06 79,157 North Carolina 07 82,135 North Carolina 08 66,190 North Carolina 09 73,797 North Carolina 10 71,930 North Carolina 11 43,749 North Carolina 12 59,695 North Carolina 13 55,440 North Carolina 14 52,646 North Carolina Total 887,805 North Dakota Total AL 16,904 Ohio 01 76,128 Ohio 02 78,625 Ohio 03 80,242 Ohio 04 64,265 Ohio 05 69,271 Ohio 06 68,025 Ohio 07 37,913 Ohio 08 67,294 Ohio 09 72,943 Ohio 10 98,847 Ohio 11 133,142 8 Ohio 12 66,864 Ohio 13 86,012 Ohio 14 70,276 Ohio 15 70,059 Ohio Total 1,139,906 Oklahoma 01 87,903 Oklahoma 02 76,137 Oklahoma 03 62,822 Oklahoma 04 60,450 Oklahoma 05 59,972 Oklahoma Total 347,284 Oregon 01 28,415 Oregon 02 54,911 Oregon 03 37,198 Oregon 04 50,463 Oregon 05 24,187 Oregon 06 28,770 Oregon Total 223,944 Pennsylvania 01 17,466 Pennsylvania 02 85,063 Pennsylvania 03 92,112 Pennsylvania 04 17,913 Pennsylvania 05 44,447 Pennsylvania 06 28,555 Pennsylvania 07 40,823 Pennsylvania 08 48,959 Pennsylvania 09 39,128 Pennsylvania 10 41,600 Pennsylvania 11 27,057 Pennsylvania 12 50,365 Pennsylvania 13 35,993 Pennsylvania 14 42,065 Pennsylvania 15 32,975 Pennsylvania 16 61,584 Pennsylvania 17 29,826 Pennsylvania Total 735,931 Rhode Island 01 46,596 Rhode Island 02 36,770 Rhode Island Total 83,366 South Carolina 01 25,050 South Carolina 02 53,160 South Carolina 03 62,484 South Carolina 04 66,924 9 South Carolina 05 52,174 South Carolina 06 79,883 South Carolina 07 83,349 South Carolina Total 423,024 South Dakota Total AL 23,176 Tennessee 01 66,446 Tennessee 02 39,997 Tennessee 03 44,105 Tennessee 04 43,488 Tennessee 05 23,083 Tennessee 06 42,359 Tennessee 07 37,402 Tennessee 08 53,284 Tennessee 09 70,931 Tennessee Total 421,095 Texas 01 34,203 Texas 02 21,080 Texas 03 20,106 Texas 04 22,391 Texas 05 35,796 Texas 06 36,246 Texas 07 30,599 Texas 08 24,441 Texas 09 48,315 Texas 10 19,336 Texas 11 37,257 Texas 12 37,892 Texas 13 39,205 Texas 14 43,569 Texas 15 91,964 Texas 16 79,594 Texas 17 38,660 Texas 18 55,127 Texas 19 33,181 Texas 20 76,781 Texas 21 23,727 Texas 22 18,290 Texas 23 48,673 Texas 24 18,397 Texas 25 35,905 Texas 26 17,645 Texas 27 58,601 Texas 28 88,006 10 Texas 29 44,653 Texas 30 72,472 Texas 31 28,862 Texas 32 53,871 Texas 33 71,000 Texas 34 112,739 Texas 35 66,159 Texas 36 36,583 Texas 37 25,570 Texas 38 16,766 Texas Total 1,663,662 Utah 01 18,233 Utah 02 24,595 Utah 03 14,126 Utah 04 14,338 Utah Total 71,292 Vermont Total AL 25,040 Virginia 01 25,995 Virginia 02 45,582 Virginia 03 94,524 Virginia 04 71,281 Virginia 05 44,279 Virginia 06 41,897 Virginia 07 25,743 Virginia 08 26,136 Virginia 09 56,347 Virginia 10 10,024 Virginia 11 13,679 Virginia Total 455,487 Washington 01 15,026 Washington 02 27,271 Washington 03 36,539 Washington 04 63,706 Washington 05 43,817 Washington 06 34,138 Washington 07 26,683 Washington 08 20,366 Washington 09 37,673 Washington 10 33,527 Washington Total 338,746 West Virginia 01 73,004 West Virginia 02 51,536 West Virginia Total 124,540 11 Wisconsin 01 59,603 Wisconsin 02 37,704 Wisconsin 03 41,658 Wisconsin 04 121,061 Wisconsin 05 32,259 Wisconsin 06 44,450 Wisconsin 07 40,700 Wisconsin 08 43,723 Wisconsin Total 421,158 Wyoming Total AL 21,355 Puerto Rico Total NA 651,521 American Samoa Total NA 1,629 Guam Total NA 1,186 Northern Mariana Islands Total NA 2,877 Virgin Islands Total NA 5,096 12 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRWOMAN February 1, 2024 The Honorable Steve Womack Chairman Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Committee on Appropriations U.S. House of Representatives 2000 Rayburn House Office Building (G Floor) Washington, DC 20515 Dear Chairman Womack: I am writing to keep you updated regarding the status of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). I last wrote you on January 8, 2024 to explain that the remaining funding we have for the ACP—the largest and most successful broadband affordability program in our Nation’s history—is insufficient to support consumers who count on this program beyond April 2024. There is broad-based support for additional funding for the ACP.21 Since I last wrote, on January 10, 2024, the bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act was introduced in the House and Senate and would provide $7 billion in additional funding for the ACP.22 More than 400 entities, including state, local and Tribal governments, non-profit organizations, and service providers have expressed support for the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act.23 My January 8, 2024 letter stressed that more funding is needed to keep the ACP in place, and that absent additional funding, the Commission would need to take steps to start orderly wind-down procedures for the ACP. Accordingly, on January 11, 2024, the Commission issued guidance to ACP providers and other stakeholders to start the orderly procedures to wind-down the ACP. 24 This guidance requires providers to send multiple written notices to ACP subscribers regarding the end of the program. To this end, by January 25, 2024, providers were required to 21 See, e.g., Letter from 174 Bipartisan Mayors to Speaker Mike Johnson et al., (Jan. 16, 2024), https://knowlegis.cq.com/file/download/Jn2UvBXcokM/2024-usmayors-ACP-SignOn-174.pdf/. 22 Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024 (H.R. 6929/S. 3565) available at https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3565 and https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th- congress/house-bill/6929/titles?s=1&r=14. 23 See, e.g., List of Supporters of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act, https://www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Supporters-of-the-Affordable-Connectivity-Program- Extension-Act.pdf. 24 Affordable Connectivity Program, WC Docket No. 21-450, Order (Jan. 11, 2024), https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-23A1.pdf). Page 2 – The Honorable SteveWomack send their ACP subscribers the first notice about the end of the program and the potential impact on their bills. As the wind down proceeds, households enrolled in the ACP will receive additional written notices from providers, as well as the Universal Service Administrative Company, with more detail about the end of the ACP and impact on their bill when the program ceases. The Commission’s January 11, 2024 guidance also announced that the ACP would stop accepting new enrollments on February 8, 2024. As my earlier letter explained, the enrollment freeze is necessary to slow the depletion of the remaining funding and reduce volatility in the program. This step will also stabilize the number of households affected by the end of the ACP and reduce consumer confusion. Following the enrollment freeze, the Commission will finalize its projection of the end date of the ACP. It bears repeating that today nearly 23 million households nationwide are enrolled in and benefitting from the ACP. In order to provide you with more detail about the distribution of this program and the many households that count on it to get online and stay online, attached is public information regarding ACP enrollments, with data for each state, territory, and congressional district. Without additional funding for the ACP, these households will lose an important benefit and are at risk of losing the internet service they rely on for work, school, health care and more. In fact, based on the results from a recent Commission survey of ACP subscribers, nearly three- quarters of households use their ACP-funded internet for health care, approximately half use it for employment, and approximately three-quarters of ACP subscribers between 18 and 24 years of age use it for school. The survey results further indicate that if the ACP ends, more than three- quarters of the households that count on this program would experience service disruption or would have to change their existing plan or stop service altogether. These survey results are consistent with other survey data showing that many ACP households will struggle to afford internet if they no longer receive the ACP benefit.25 I hope you find this information helpful. The Commission stands ready to assist Congress with any efforts to fully fund the ACP into the future. Sincerely, Jessica Rosenworcel 25 Benenson Strategy Group, The Impact and Importance of the Affordable Connectivity Program, https://www.bsgco.com/acp-fact-sheet (describing October 2023 survey indicating that 95% of ACP households will struggle with costs if the ACP ends, and that the majority of ACP households fear that the end of the ACP could cause job loss or loss of primary source of income, reduce access to health care, and cause children to fall behind in school). ACP Enrollment Data as of January 1, 2024 Congressional Total ACP Households as of Jan.1, State District 2024 Alabama 01 46,240 Alabama 02 68,263 Alabama 03 61,440 Alabama 04 58,504 Alabama 05 36,363 Alabama 06 38,661 Alabama 07 97,155 Alabama Total 406,626 Alaska Total AL 22,507 Arizona 01 39,342 Arizona 02 58,979 Arizona 03 92,311 Arizona 04 53,283 Arizona 05 23,958 Arizona 06 49,404 Arizona 07 103,006 Arizona 08 50,374 Arizona 09 47,846 Arizona Total 518,503 Arkansas 01 57,812 Arkansas 02 44,548 Arkansas 03 51,971 Arkansas 04 55,984 Arkansas Total 210,315 California 01 57,592 California 02 26,124 California 03 19,889 California 04 25,743 California 05 36,746 California 06 50,442 California 07 47,215 California 08 38,274 California 09 45,472 California 10 14,466 California 11 38,796 California 12 39,686 California 13 60,792 California 14 21,881 California 15 19,089 California 16 16,268 1 California 17 17,140 California 18 40,499 California 19 22,480 California 20 53,051 California 21 84,518 California 22 103,807 California 23 88,415 California 24 37,392 California 25 107,592 California 26 39,318 California 27 67,076 California 28 46,596 California 29 87,411 California 30 60,112 California 31 78,308 California 32 41,774 California 33 95,701 California 34 95,673 California 35 72,594 California 36 26,901 California 37 102,359 California 38 53,255 California 39 78,849 California 40 25,953 California 41 49,512 California 42 82,946 California 43 99,168 California 44 72,606 California 45 57,689 California 46 76,421 California 47 29,563 California 48 40,503 California 49 32,792 California 50 40,548 California 51 52,918 California 52 78,783 California Total 2,798,698 Colorado 01 44,347 Colorado 02 16,185 Colorado 03 50,201 Colorado 04 17,009 Colorado 05 29,983 Colorado 06 29,809 2 Colorado 07 23,658 Colorado 08 30,727 Colorado Total 241,919 Connecticut 01 48,649 Connecticut 02 31,261 Connecticut 03 37,510 Connecticut 04 24,896 Connecticut 05 39,232 Connecticut Total 181,548 Delaware Total AL 50,541 District of Columbia Total NA 61,244 Florida 01 56,007 Florida 02 52,881 Florida 03 72,392 Florida 04 69,405 Florida 05 29,127 Florida 06 79,724 Florida 07 66,757 Florida 08 63,473 Florida 09 80,600 Florida 10 98,243 Florida 11 45,550 Florida 12 86,857 Florida 13 67,716 Florida 14 102,792 Florida 15 84,696 Florida 16 53,601 Florida 17 29,784 Florida 18 84,646 Florida 19 24,795 Florida 20 67,590 Florida 21 30,637 Florida 22 38,382 Florida 23 21,733 Florida 24 74,611 Florida 25 28,192 Florida 26 63,433 Florida 27 50,327 Florida 28 58,936 Florida Total 1,682,887 Georgia 01 47,486 Georgia 02 97,545 Georgia 03 56,116 3 Georgia 04 49,822 Georgia 05 64,368 Georgia 06 10,413 Georgia 07 25,812 Georgia 08 67,514 Georgia 09 33,058 Georgia 10 50,038 Georgia 11 23,353 Georgia 12 61,627 Georgia 13 59,400 Georgia 14 51,464 Georgia Total 698,016 Hawaii 01 26,593 Hawaii 02 32,035 Hawaii Total 58,628 Idaho 01 27,670 Idaho 02 23,896 Idaho Total 51,566 Illinois 01 78,809 Illinois 02 75,051 Illinois 03 29,549 Illinois 04 34,112 Illinois 05 14,923 Illinois 06 20,608 Illinois 07 82,118 Illinois 08 17,790 Illinois 09 25,080 Illinois 10 20,296 Illinois 11 17,210 Illinois 12 45,472 Illinois 13 76,604 Illinois 14 25,274 Illinois 15 30,296 Illinois 16 23,916 Illinois 17 57,954 Illinois Total 675,062 Indiana 01 43,804 Indiana 02 36,324 Indiana 03 35,729 Indiana 04 27,138 Indiana 05 40,977 Indiana 06 39,175 Indiana 07 85,150 4 Indiana 08 59,301 Indiana 09 45,433 Indiana Total 413,031 Iowa 01 31,474 Iowa 02 29,540 Iowa 03 32,086 Iowa 04 26,924 Iowa Total 120,024 Kansas 01 27,643 Kansas 02 42,593 Kansas 03 17,123 Kansas 04 45,590 Kansas Total 132,949 Kentucky 01 65,588 Kentucky 02 63,584 Kentucky 03 85,061 Kentucky 04 51,882 Kentucky 05 108,818 Kentucky 06 71,465 Kentucky Total 446,398 Louisiana 01 68,100 Louisiana 02 134,153 Louisiana 03 86,500 Louisiana 04 87,987 Louisiana 05 95,553 Louisiana 06 74,866 Louisiana Total 547,159 Maine 01 36,188 Maine 02 60,964 Maine Total 97,152 Maryland 01 33,214 Maryland 02 30,650 Maryland 03 19,730 Maryland 04 33,034 Maryland 05 19,875 Maryland 06 28,017 Maryland 07 95,467 Maryland 08 15,882 Maryland Total 275,869 Massachusetts 01 72,258 Massachusetts 02 51,319 Massachusetts 03 41,151 Massachusetts 04 28,364 5 Massachusetts 05 21,006 Massachusetts 06 23,632 Massachusetts 07 55,988 Massachusetts 08 35,710 Massachusetts 09 28,130 Massachusetts Total 357,558 Michigan 01 70,421 Michigan 02 64,053 Michigan 03 50,739 Michigan 04 64,454 Michigan 05 52,122 Michigan 06 31,841 Michigan 07 42,247 Michigan 08 99,770 Michigan 09 39,576 Michigan 10 68,375 Michigan 11 46,931 Michigan 12 116,882 Michigan 13 137,586 Michigan Total 884,997 Minnesota 01 34,242 Minnesota 02 19,319 Minnesota 03 19,250 Minnesota 04 38,758 Minnesota 05 42,681 Minnesota 06 24,579 Minnesota 07 26,980 Minnesota 08 33,512 Minnesota Total 239,321 Mississippi 01 45,641 Mississippi 02 93,015 Mississippi 03 49,087 Mississippi 04 51,211 Mississippi Total 238,954 Missouri 01 102,244 Missouri 02 25,814 Missouri 03 32,934 Missouri 04 35,844 Missouri 05 59,393 Missouri 06 32,312 Missouri 07 35,164 Missouri 08 62,325 Missouri Total 386,030 6 Montana 01 25,964 Montana 02 28,071 Montana Total 54,035 Nebraska 01 30,993 Nebraska 02 37,073 Nebraska 03 27,225 Nebraska Total 95,291 Nevada 01 89,861 Nevada 02 51,561 Nevada 03 51,503 Nevada 04 76,365 Nevada Total 269,290 New Hampshire 01 17,803 New Hampshire 02 20,125 New Hampshire Total 37,928 New Jersey 01 35,412 New Jersey 02 35,347 New Jersey 03 15,536 New Jersey 04 17,994 New Jersey 05 12,846 New Jersey 06 23,976 New Jersey 07 10,232 New Jersey 08 37,561 New Jersey 09 38,289 New Jersey 10 62,832 New Jersey 11 10,691 New Jersey 12 21,574 New Jersey Total 322,290 New Mexico 01 47,207 New Mexico 02 69,686 New Mexico 03 61,337 New Mexico Total 178,230 New York 01 13,182 New York 02 26,466 New York 03 17,680 New York 04 20,947 New York 05 78,778 New York 06 63,266 New York 07 77,426 New York 08 94,021 New York 09 61,956 New York 10 62,721 New York 11 55,507 7 New York 12 43,980 New York 13 153,689 New York 14 84,095 New York 15 134,805 New York 16 45,709 New York 17 22,333 New York 18 46,641 New York 19 66,039 New York 20 68,755 New York 21 68,527 New York 22 79,619 New York 23 63,410 New York 24 69,666 New York 25 79,033 New York 26 99,338 New York Total 1,697,589 North Carolina 01 79,728 North Carolina 02 33,491 North Carolina 03 61,052 North Carolina 04 58,140 North Carolina 05 70,655 North Carolina 06 79,157 North Carolina 07 82,135 North Carolina 08 66,190 North Carolina 09 73,797 North Carolina 10 71,930 North Carolina 11 43,749 North Carolina 12 59,695 North Carolina 13 55,440 North Carolina 14 52,646 North Carolina Total 887,805 North Dakota Total AL 16,904 Ohio 01 76,128 Ohio 02 78,625 Ohio 03 80,242 Ohio 04 64,265 Ohio 05 69,271 Ohio 06 68,025 Ohio 07 37,913 Ohio 08 67,294 Ohio 09 72,943 Ohio 10 98,847 Ohio 11 133,142 8 Ohio 12 66,864 Ohio 13 86,012 Ohio 14 70,276 Ohio 15 70,059 Ohio Total 1,139,906 Oklahoma 01 87,903 Oklahoma 02 76,137 Oklahoma 03 62,822 Oklahoma 04 60,450 Oklahoma 05 59,972 Oklahoma Total 347,284 Oregon 01 28,415 Oregon 02 54,911 Oregon 03 37,198 Oregon 04 50,463 Oregon 05 24,187 Oregon 06 28,770 Oregon Total 223,944 Pennsylvania 01 17,466 Pennsylvania 02 85,063 Pennsylvania 03 92,112 Pennsylvania 04 17,913 Pennsylvania 05 44,447 Pennsylvania 06 28,555 Pennsylvania 07 40,823 Pennsylvania 08 48,959 Pennsylvania 09 39,128 Pennsylvania 10 41,600 Pennsylvania 11 27,057 Pennsylvania 12 50,365 Pennsylvania 13 35,993 Pennsylvania 14 42,065 Pennsylvania 15 32,975 Pennsylvania 16 61,584 Pennsylvania 17 29,826 Pennsylvania Total 735,931 Rhode Island 01 46,596 Rhode Island 02 36,770 Rhode Island Total 83,366 South Carolina 01 25,050 South Carolina 02 53,160 South Carolina 03 62,484 South Carolina 04 66,924 9 South Carolina 05 52,174 South Carolina 06 79,883 South Carolina 07 83,349 South Carolina Total 423,024 South Dakota Total AL 23,176 Tennessee 01 66,446 Tennessee 02 39,997 Tennessee 03 44,105 Tennessee 04 43,488 Tennessee 05 23,083 Tennessee 06 42,359 Tennessee 07 37,402 Tennessee 08 53,284 Tennessee 09 70,931 Tennessee Total 421,095 Texas 01 34,203 Texas 02 21,080 Texas 03 20,106 Texas 04 22,391 Texas 05 35,796 Texas 06 36,246 Texas 07 30,599 Texas 08 24,441 Texas 09 48,315 Texas 10 19,336 Texas 11 37,257 Texas 12 37,892 Texas 13 39,205 Texas 14 43,569 Texas 15 91,964 Texas 16 79,594 Texas 17 38,660 Texas 18 55,127 Texas 19 33,181 Texas 20 76,781 Texas 21 23,727 Texas 22 18,290 Texas 23 48,673 Texas 24 18,397 Texas 25 35,905 Texas 26 17,645 Texas 27 58,601 Texas 28 88,006 10 Texas 29 44,653 Texas 30 72,472 Texas 31 28,862 Texas 32 53,871 Texas 33 71,000 Texas 34 112,739 Texas 35 66,159 Texas 36 36,583 Texas 37 25,570 Texas 38 16,766 Texas Total 1,663,662 Utah 01 18,233 Utah 02 24,595 Utah 03 14,126 Utah 04 14,338 Utah Total 71,292 Vermont Total AL 25,040 Virginia 01 25,995 Virginia 02 45,582 Virginia 03 94,524 Virginia 04 71,281 Virginia 05 44,279 Virginia 06 41,897 Virginia 07 25,743 Virginia 08 26,136 Virginia 09 56,347 Virginia 10 10,024 Virginia 11 13,679 Virginia Total 455,487 Washington 01 15,026 Washington 02 27,271 Washington 03 36,539 Washington 04 63,706 Washington 05 43,817 Washington 06 34,138 Washington 07 26,683 Washington 08 20,366 Washington 09 37,673 Washington 10 33,527 Washington Total 338,746 West Virginia 01 73,004 West Virginia 02 51,536 West Virginia Total 124,540 11 Wisconsin 01 59,603 Wisconsin 02 37,704 Wisconsin 03 41,658 Wisconsin 04 121,061 Wisconsin 05 32,259 Wisconsin 06 44,450 Wisconsin 07 40,700 Wisconsin 08 43,723 Wisconsin Total 421,158 Wyoming Total AL 21,355 Puerto Rico Total NA 651,521 American Samoa Total NA 1,629 Guam Total NA 1,186 Northern Mariana Islands Total NA 2,877 Virgin Islands Total NA 5,096 12 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE CHAIRWOMAN February 1, 2024 The Honorable Steny H. Hoyer Ranking Member Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Committee on Appropriations U.S. House of Representatives 1036 Longworth Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Ranking Member Hoyer: I am writing to keep you updated regarding the status of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). I last wrote you on January 8, 2024 to explain that the remaining funding we have for the ACP—the largest and most successful broadband affordability program in our Nation’s history—is insufficient to support consumers who count on this program beyond April 2024. There is broad-based support for additional funding for the ACP.26 Since I last wrote, on January 10, 2024, the bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act was introduced in the House and Senate and would provide $7 billion in additional funding for the ACP.27 More than 400 entities, including state, local and Tribal governments, non-profit organizations, and service providers have expressed support for the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act.28 My January 8, 2024 letter stressed that more funding is needed to keep the ACP in place, and that absent additional funding, the Commission would need to take steps to start orderly wind-down procedures for the ACP. Accordingly, on January 11, 2024, the Commission issued guidance to ACP providers and other stakeholders to start the orderly procedures to wind-down the ACP. 29 This guidance requires providers to send multiple written notices to ACP subscribers regarding the end of the program. To this end, by January 25, 2024, providers were required to 26 See, e.g., Letter from 174 Bipartisan Mayors to Speaker Mike Johnson et al., (Jan. 16, 2024), https://knowlegis.cq.com/file/download/Jn2UvBXcokM/2024-usmayors-ACP-SignOn-174.pdf/. 27 Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024 (H.R. 6929/S. 3565) available at https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3565 and https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th- congress/house-bill/6929/titles?s=1&r=14. 28 See, e.g., List of Supporters of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act, https://www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Supporters-of-the-Affordable-Connectivity-Program- Extension-Act.pdf. 29 Affordable Connectivity Program, WC Docket No. 21-450, Order (Jan. 11, 2024), https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-23A1.pdf). Page 2 – The Honorable Steny H.Hoyer send their ACP subscribers the first notice about the end of the program and the potential impact on their bills. As the wind down proceeds, households enrolled in the ACP will receive additional written notices from providers, as well as the Universal Service Administrative Company, with more detail about the end of the ACP and impact on their bill when the program ceases. The Commission’s January 11, 2024 guidance also announced that the ACP would stop accepting new enrollments on February 8, 2024. As my earlier letter explained, the enrollment freeze is necessary to slow the depletion of the remaining funding and reduce volatility in the program. This step will also stabilize the number of households affected by the end of the ACP and reduce consumer confusion. Following the enrollment freeze, the Commission will finalize its projection of the end date of the ACP. It bears repeating that today nearly 23 million households nationwide are enrolled in and benefitting from the ACP. In order to provide you with more detail about the distribution of this program and the many households that count on it to get online and stay online, attached is public information regarding ACP enrollments, with data for each state, territory, and congressional district. Without additional funding for the ACP, these households will lose an important benefit and are at risk of losing the internet service they rely on for work, school, health care and more. In fact, based on the results from a recent Commission survey of ACP subscribers, nearly three- quarters of households use their ACP-funded internet for health care, approximately half use it for employment, and approximately three-quarters of ACP subscribers between 18 and 24 years of age use it for school. The survey results further indicate that if the ACP ends, more than three- quarters of the households that count on this program would experience service disruption or would have to change their existing plan or stop service altogether. These survey results are consistent with other survey data showing that many ACP households will struggle to afford internet if they no longer receive the ACP benefit.30 I hope you find this information helpful. The Commission stands ready to assist Congress with any efforts to fully fund the ACP into the future. Sincerely, Jessica Rosenworcel 30 Benenson Strategy Group, The Impact and Importance of the Affordable Connectivity Program, https://www.bsgco.com/acp-fact-sheet (describing October 2023 survey indicating that 95% of ACP households will struggle with costs if the ACP ends, and that the majority of ACP households fear that the end of the ACP could cause job loss or loss of primary source of income, reduce access to health care, and cause children to fall behind in school). ACP Enrollment Data as of January 1, 2024 Congressional Total ACP Households as of Jan.1, State District 2024 Alabama 01 46,240 Alabama 02 68,263 Alabama 03 61,440 Alabama 04 58,504 Alabama 05 36,363 Alabama 06 38,661 Alabama 07 97,155 Alabama Total 406,626 Alaska Total AL 22,507 Arizona 01 39,342 Arizona 02 58,979 Arizona 03 92,311 Arizona 04 53,283 Arizona 05 23,958 Arizona 06 49,404 Arizona 07 103,006 Arizona 08 50,374 Arizona 09 47,846 Arizona Total 518,503 Arkansas 01 57,812 Arkansas 02 44,548 Arkansas 03 51,971 Arkansas 04 55,984 Arkansas Total 210,315 California 01 57,592 California 02 26,124 California 03 19,889 California 04 25,743 California 05 36,746 California 06 50,442 California 07 47,215 California 08 38,274 California 09 45,472 California 10 14,466 California 11 38,796 California 12 39,686 California 13 60,792 California 14 21,881 California 15 19,089 California 16 16,268 1 California 17 17,140 California 18 40,499 California 19 22,480 California 20 53,051 California 21 84,518 California 22 103,807 California 23 88,415 California 24 37,392 California 25 107,592 California 26 39,318 California 27 67,076 California 28 46,596 California 29 87,411 California 30 60,112 California 31 78,308 California 32 41,774 California 33 95,701 California 34 95,673 California 35 72,594 California 36 26,901 California 37 102,359 California 38 53,255 California 39 78,849 California 40 25,953 California 41 49,512 California 42 82,946 California 43 99,168 California 44 72,606 California 45 57,689 California 46 76,421 California 47 29,563 California 48 40,503 California 49 32,792 California 50 40,548 California 51 52,918 California 52 78,783 California Total 2,798,698 Colorado 01 44,347 Colorado 02 16,185 Colorado 03 50,201 Colorado 04 17,009 Colorado 05 29,983 Colorado 06 29,809 2 Colorado 07 23,658 Colorado 08 30,727 Colorado Total 241,919 Connecticut 01 48,649 Connecticut 02 31,261 Connecticut 03 37,510 Connecticut 04 24,896 Connecticut 05 39,232 Connecticut Total 181,548 Delaware Total AL 50,541 District of Columbia Total NA 61,244 Florida 01 56,007 Florida 02 52,881 Florida 03 72,392 Florida 04 69,405 Florida 05 29,127 Florida 06 79,724 Florida 07 66,757 Florida 08 63,473 Florida 09 80,600 Florida 10 98,243 Florida 11 45,550 Florida 12 86,857 Florida 13 67,716 Florida 14 102,792 Florida 15 84,696 Florida 16 53,601 Florida 17 29,784 Florida 18 84,646 Florida 19 24,795 Florida 20 67,590 Florida 21 30,637 Florida 22 38,382 Florida 23 21,733 Florida 24 74,611 Florida 25 28,192 Florida 26 63,433 Florida 27 50,327 Florida 28 58,936 Florida Total 1,682,887 Georgia 01 47,486 Georgia 02 97,545 Georgia 03 56,116 3 Georgia 04 49,822 Georgia 05 64,368 Georgia 06 10,413 Georgia 07 25,812 Georgia 08 67,514 Georgia 09 33,058 Georgia 10 50,038 Georgia 11 23,353 Georgia 12 61,627 Georgia 13 59,400 Georgia 14 51,464 Georgia Total 698,016 Hawaii 01 26,593 Hawaii 02 32,035 Hawaii Total 58,628 Idaho 01 27,670 Idaho 02 23,896 Idaho Total 51,566 Illinois 01 78,809 Illinois 02 75,051 Illinois 03 29,549 Illinois 04 34,112 Illinois 05 14,923 Illinois 06 20,608 Illinois 07 82,118 Illinois 08 17,790 Illinois 09 25,080 Illinois 10 20,296 Illinois 11 17,210 Illinois 12 45,472 Illinois 13 76,604 Illinois 14 25,274 Illinois 15 30,296 Illinois 16 23,916 Illinois 17 57,954 Illinois Total 675,062 Indiana 01 43,804 Indiana 02 36,324 Indiana 03 35,729 Indiana 04 27,138 Indiana 05 40,977 Indiana 06 39,175 Indiana 07 85,150 4 Indiana 08 59,301 Indiana 09 45,433 Indiana Total 413,031 Iowa 01 31,474 Iowa 02 29,540 Iowa 03 32,086 Iowa 04 26,924 Iowa Total 120,024 Kansas 01 27,643 Kansas 02 42,593 Kansas 03 17,123 Kansas 04 45,590 Kansas Total 132,949 Kentucky 01 65,588 Kentucky 02 63,584 Kentucky 03 85,061 Kentucky 04 51,882 Kentucky 05 108,818 Kentucky 06 71,465 Kentucky Total 446,398 Louisiana 01 68,100 Louisiana 02 134,153 Louisiana 03 86,500 Louisiana 04 87,987 Louisiana 05 95,553 Louisiana 06 74,866 Louisiana Total 547,159 Maine 01 36,188 Maine 02 60,964 Maine Total 97,152 Maryland 01 33,214 Maryland 02 30,650 Maryland 03 19,730 Maryland 04 33,034 Maryland 05 19,875 Maryland 06 28,017 Maryland 07 95,467 Maryland 08 15,882 Maryland Total 275,869 Massachusetts 01 72,258 Massachusetts 02 51,319 Massachusetts 03 41,151 Massachusetts 04 28,364 5 Massachusetts 05 21,006 Massachusetts 06 23,632 Massachusetts 07 55,988 Massachusetts 08 35,710 Massachusetts 09 28,130 Massachusetts Total 357,558 Michigan 01 70,421 Michigan 02 64,053 Michigan 03 50,739 Michigan 04 64,454 Michigan 05 52,122 Michigan 06 31,841 Michigan 07 42,247 Michigan 08 99,770 Michigan 09 39,576 Michigan 10 68,375 Michigan 11 46,931 Michigan 12 116,882 Michigan 13 137,586 Michigan Total 884,997 Minnesota 01 34,242 Minnesota 02 19,319 Minnesota 03 19,250 Minnesota 04 38,758 Minnesota 05 42,681 Minnesota 06 24,579 Minnesota 07 26,980 Minnesota 08 33,512 Minnesota Total 239,321 Mississippi 01 45,641 Mississippi 02 93,015 Mississippi 03 49,087 Mississippi 04 51,211 Mississippi Total 238,954 Missouri 01 102,244 Missouri 02 25,814 Missouri 03 32,934 Missouri 04 35,844 Missouri 05 59,393 Missouri 06 32,312 Missouri 07 35,164 Missouri 08 62,325 Missouri Total 386,030 6 Montana 01 25,964 Montana 02 28,071 Montana Total 54,035 Nebraska 01 30,993 Nebraska 02 37,073 Nebraska 03 27,225 Nebraska Total 95,291 Nevada 01 89,861 Nevada 02 51,561 Nevada 03 51,503 Nevada 04 76,365 Nevada Total 269,290 New Hampshire 01 17,803 New Hampshire 02 20,125 New Hampshire Total 37,928 New Jersey 01 35,412 New Jersey 02 35,347 New Jersey 03 15,536 New Jersey 04 17,994 New Jersey 05 12,846 New Jersey 06 23,976 New Jersey 07 10,232 New Jersey 08 37,561 New Jersey 09 38,289 New Jersey 10 62,832 New Jersey 11 10,691 New Jersey 12 21,574 New Jersey Total 322,290 New Mexico 01 47,207 New Mexico 02 69,686 New Mexico 03 61,337 New Mexico Total 178,230 New York 01 13,182 New York 02 26,466 New York 03 17,680 New York 04 20,947 New York 05 78,778 New York 06 63,266 New York 07 77,426 New York 08 94,021 New York 09 61,956 New York 10 62,721 New York 11 55,507 7 New York 12 43,980 New York 13 153,689 New York 14 84,095 New York 15 134,805 New York 16 45,709 New York 17 22,333 New York 18 46,641 New York 19 66,039 New York 20 68,755 New York 21 68,527 New York 22 79,619 New York 23 63,410 New York 24 69,666 New York 25 79,033 New York 26 99,338 New York Total 1,697,589 North Carolina 01 79,728 North Carolina 02 33,491 North Carolina 03 61,052 North Carolina 04 58,140 North Carolina 05 70,655 North Carolina 06 79,157 North Carolina 07 82,135 North Carolina 08 66,190 North Carolina 09 73,797 North Carolina 10 71,930 North Carolina 11 43,749 North Carolina 12 59,695 North Carolina 13 55,440 North Carolina 14 52,646 North Carolina Total 887,805 North Dakota Total AL 16,904 Ohio 01 76,128 Ohio 02 78,625 Ohio 03 80,242 Ohio 04 64,265 Ohio 05 69,271 Ohio 06 68,025 Ohio 07 37,913 Ohio 08 67,294 Ohio 09 72,943 Ohio 10 98,847 Ohio 11 133,142 8 Ohio 12 66,864 Ohio 13 86,012 Ohio 14 70,276 Ohio 15 70,059 Ohio Total 1,139,906 Oklahoma 01 87,903 Oklahoma 02 76,137 Oklahoma 03 62,822 Oklahoma 04 60,450 Oklahoma 05 59,972 Oklahoma Total 347,284 Oregon 01 28,415 Oregon 02 54,911 Oregon 03 37,198 Oregon 04 50,463 Oregon 05 24,187 Oregon 06 28,770 Oregon Total 223,944 Pennsylvania 01 17,466 Pennsylvania 02 85,063 Pennsylvania 03 92,112 Pennsylvania 04 17,913 Pennsylvania 05 44,447 Pennsylvania 06 28,555 Pennsylvania 07 40,823 Pennsylvania 08 48,959 Pennsylvania 09 39,128 Pennsylvania 10 41,600 Pennsylvania 11 27,057 Pennsylvania 12 50,365 Pennsylvania 13 35,993 Pennsylvania 14 42,065 Pennsylvania 15 32,975 Pennsylvania 16 61,584 Pennsylvania 17 29,826 Pennsylvania Total 735,931 Rhode Island 01 46,596 Rhode Island 02 36,770 Rhode Island Total 83,366 South Carolina 01 25,050 South Carolina 02 53,160 South Carolina 03 62,484 South Carolina 04 66,924 9 South Carolina 05 52,174 South Carolina 06 79,883 South Carolina 07 83,349 South Carolina Total 423,024 South Dakota Total AL 23,176 Tennessee 01 66,446 Tennessee 02 39,997 Tennessee 03 44,105 Tennessee 04 43,488 Tennessee 05 23,083 Tennessee 06 42,359 Tennessee 07 37,402 Tennessee 08 53,284 Tennessee 09 70,931 Tennessee Total 421,095 Texas 01 34,203 Texas 02 21,080 Texas 03 20,106 Texas 04 22,391 Texas 05 35,796 Texas 06 36,246 Texas 07 30,599 Texas 08 24,441 Texas 09 48,315 Texas 10 19,336 Texas 11 37,257 Texas 12 37,892 Texas 13 39,205 Texas 14 43,569 Texas 15 91,964 Texas 16 79,594 Texas 17 38,660 Texas 18 55,127 Texas 19 33,181 Texas 20 76,781 Texas 21 23,727 Texas 22 18,290 Texas 23 48,673 Texas 24 18,397 Texas 25 35,905 Texas 26 17,645 Texas 27 58,601 Texas 28 88,006 10 Texas 29 44,653 Texas 30 72,472 Texas 31 28,862 Texas 32 53,871 Texas 33 71,000 Texas 34 112,739 Texas 35 66,159 Texas 36 36,583 Texas 37 25,570 Texas 38 16,766 Texas Total 1,663,662 Utah 01 18,233 Utah 02 24,595 Utah 03 14,126 Utah 04 14,338 Utah Total 71,292 Vermont Total AL 25,040 Virginia 01 25,995 Virginia 02 45,582 Virginia 03 94,524 Virginia 04 71,281 Virginia 05 44,279 Virginia 06 41,897 Virginia 07 25,743 Virginia 08 26,136 Virginia 09 56,347 Virginia 10 10,024 Virginia 11 13,679 Virginia Total 455,487 Washington 01 15,026 Washington 02 27,271 Washington 03 36,539 Washington 04 63,706 Washington 05 43,817 Washington 06 34,138 Washington 07 26,683 Washington 08 20,366 Washington 09 37,673 Washington 10 33,527 Washington Total 338,746 West Virginia 01 73,004 West Virginia 02 51,536 West Virginia Total 124,540 11 Wisconsin 01 59,603 Wisconsin 02 37,704 Wisconsin 03 41,658 Wisconsin 04 121,061 Wisconsin 05 32,259 Wisconsin 06 44,450 Wisconsin 07 40,700 Wisconsin 08 43,723 Wisconsin Total 421,158 Wyoming Total AL 21,355 Puerto Rico Total NA 651,521 American Samoa Total NA 1,629 Guam Total NA 1,186 Northern Mariana Islands Total NA 2,877 Virgin Islands Total NA 5,096 12