New Jersey BEAD funding

New Jersey's BEAD final proposal covers 11,479 locations. 4,987 of them (43.4%) are slated for fiber to the premises, which ranks New Jersey #41 of 51 for fiber locations. The deployment cost is $62.2 million against an original allocation of $263.7 million.

Allocation

$263.7 million

Deployment cost

$62.2 million

Locations

11,479

Fiber locations

4,987

Technology mix

Fiber to the premises	4,987	43.4%
Hybrid fiber-coax (cable)	4,081	35.6%
Fixed wireless	1,409	12.3%
Low earth orbit satellite	1,002	8.7%

Who won BEAD money in New Jersey

5 providers, largest grant first. The ones building fiber or cable are the ones hiring construction crews.

Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

$48.7 million

7,597 locations · Fiber (46%) / Coaxial cable (54%) · provider match $144.3 million · est. completion December 31, 2029

Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Ocean, Passaic, Salem and Union counties

Planet Networks

$8.3 million

1,357 locations · Fiber · provider match $2.8 million · est. completion June 1, 2029

Sussex and Warren counties

CBN (Community Broadband Networks)

$3.3 million

1,408 locations · Licensed fixed wireless · provider match $1.1 million · est. completion December 31, 2030

Monmouth, Morris and Somerset counties

Starlink (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.)

$1.8 million

1,002 locations · Satellite (LEO) · provider match $1.5 million · est. completion March 1, 2027

Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Ocean, Salem, Sussex and Warren counties

Brightspeed (Connect Holding II LLC)

$37,500

114 locations · Fiber · provider match $803,466 · est. completion January 1, 2028

Hunterdon County

Source: NJ Board of Public Utilities, Connect NJ subgrantee one-pagers (retrieved 2026-09-21). Grant and match as printed on each provider's one-pager. The five grants total $62,184,235.53, which matches NTIA's New Jersey deployment cost. Provisional awards can change as the state finalizes agreements.

What it means for contractors

Fiber locations are the ones that turn into construction: underground and aerial placement, boring, splicing, drops, and restoration. The providers that won these areas build them, often with subcontractors. Check the New Jerseybroadband office's BEAD page for the providers selected in each area. Those providers, and the primes they hire, are who to call about sub work.

New Jersey BEAD office NTIA state page Final proposal overview (PDF)

Fiber work in New Jersey on the board

No open fiber posts in New Jersey right now. Post work or list your crew, both free.

Source: NTIA, final proposal overview updated November 24, 2025. NTIA marks these figures subject to change pending final review. All states.