Texas BOOT Toolkit
The Texas BOOT Toolkit is laser-focused on the Texas Bringing Online Opportunities to Texas (BOOT) broadband grant program. The first round of BOOT provides up to $120 million in funding to 9,785 eligible census blocks. It uses American Rescue Plan (ARPA) Capital Project Fund (CPF) dollars. The Toolkit enables users to explore a wide range of metrics than enable a network planner / grant applicant to identify compelling opportunities and to avoid potential pitfalls. It integrates vast national data resources with Texas BDO provided data. The KPIs include: All BOOT Eligible Blocks Pending challenges (some seeking to disqualify a block, some seeking to add a block) Successful Missing Location FCC Challenges (Type 1) Location density (locations per square kilometer) by block Unit density (units per square kilometer) by block Locations per block covered at 100-20 Mbps, low latency Locations per block covered at 25-3 Mbps, low latency The presence of each of the following technologies: