Texas BOOT Toolkit

Texas BOOT ToolkitThe 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

unlicensed fixed wireless

as a result of qualifying unlicensed fixed wireless

and Fixed Wireless Access)

it shows competitive intensity (number of competing entities) on a tract-by-tract basis

Telephony (ability to make and receive calls in the home

The Toolkit also shows maps of nine federal programs

Key dimensions include:

Treasury: Capital Projects Fund

The Fiber Strategy Toolkit Pro  includes an additional layer of road distance data and a suite of capabilities for estimating fiber deployment costs based on road distances

congressional district

911 / PSAP boundaries

The rich juxtaposition of many data sets is extremely powerful