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

91.9%

80.5%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$263,689,549

$194,715,700

$9,787,173,308

$31,925,575

BEAD

Overview

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

Five-Year Plan

Status: Unreleased
Due: 9/16/23
Link: n/a

Initial Proposal

Status: Unreleased
Due: 12/27/23
Link: n/a

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: n/a
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

$9,787,173,308

For Broadband
$50,463,774 (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, 2021, 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.↩︎