New Jersey

Broadband Office

Name: NJ Office of Broadband Connectivity
Location: Board of Public Utilities
Enabling Act: n/a

Connectivity Snapshot

Broadband Serviceable Locations ¹

Total	Served	Underserved	Unserved
514,521	478,215	10,713	25,593

Adoption ²

Overall	Wireline
93.0%	81.1%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD	CPF	ARPA	DE
$263,689,549	$194,715,700	$9,787,173,307	$31,925,575

BEAD

Overview

Total Allocation: $263,689,549
Current Status: Funding Allocated

Five-Year Plan

Status: Submitted
Due: 9/16/23
Link: 5-Year Plan

Initial Proposal

Status: Drafted
Due: 12/27/23
Link: Initial Proposal Vol. 1 Vol. 2

Final Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $31,925,575³
Planning Grant: $1,176,741.00
Link to Plan: DE Plan
Summary of Uses: n/a

NTIA Grant Program

TBD

Middle Mile

Cumberland and Salem County Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Project

Applicant: County of Cumberland
Total Cost: $34,538,132
NTIA Award: $24,176,692

ARPA

SLFRF

Total⁴

$9,787,173,307

For Broadband

$50,214,701 (0.5%)

CPF

Total

$194,715,700

For Broadband

$0 (0%)

Program Link

State Funding

Recent Programs⁵

No open/recent grant programs

Policies

Non-Traditional ISPs⁶

Pemitted to Offer Broadband

Municipalities	Yes (subject to rules)
Municipal Electric Utilities	Yes
Electric Cooperatives	Yes
Investor-Owned Utilities	Yes

Footnotes

1. FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 24, 2023).

2. ACS 1-Year Data, 2022, US Census Bureau.

3. ACLP Overview of IIJA Digital Equity Grant Programs.

4. Broadband infrastructure is one of several applicable uses of SLFRF funds.

5. Updated as of March 2023.

6. Updated as of September 2022.