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

2,583,523

2,567,545

3,185

12,793
Adoption 2
Overall Wireline

94.0%

80.6%

Federal Funding

Summary

BEAD CPF ARPA DE

$263,689,549

$194,715,700

$9,787,173,307

$31,925,575

BEAD

Total Allocation: $263,689,549

Digital Equity

State Grants

Capacity Grant: $31,925,5753
Planning Grant: $1,176,741.00
Link to Plan: Digital Equity 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 07, 2025).↩︎

  2. ACS 1-Year Data, 2023, 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.↩︎