Healthy New Jersey

NJ Office of Broadband Connectivity

Capital Projects Fund (CPF)

Program Overview:

The New Jersey Office of Broadband Connectivity (OBC) is pleased to announce that it has begun soliciting applications for the New Jersey Broadband Infrastructure Deployment Equity (NJBIDE) Pilot Program.

The NJBIDE program is an investment in the future of New Jersey, ensuring that NJ residents have the tools they need to thrive in an increasingly digitally interconnected world. To achieve this goal, New Jersey will award funding for broadband infrastructure that addresses existing disparities in broadband access, supports economically distressed and marginalizing communities, and helps New Jersey residents achieve their economic potential.

Through a competitive grant process, the NJBIDE program will use $40M from the Capital Projects Fund (CPF) to fund the construction and deployment of broadband infrastructure projects that are designed to deliver, upon project completion, service that reliably meets or exceeds symmetrical download and upload speeds of 100 Mbps. As part of this program, applicants must agree to serve all unserved and underserved Broadband Serviceable Locations (BSLs) and community anchor institutions in their proposed project area.

Applications are due on February 7th, 2025, at 5:00PM ET. Proposed projects must be designed to be substantively complete by December 31, 2026.