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New Jersey Awards $40M in New Broadband Pilot Program

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved $40 million in broadband grants through a new pilot program. The New Jersey broadband infrastructure deployment equity pilot program will support "critical broadband expansion efforts across the state," the agency said Wednesday.…

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Awardees included Brightspeed, Verizon, the city of Vineland, Salem County and the borough of Penns Grove. “This historic investment to ‘connect the unconnected’ answers the call we have heard throughout the state,” said board President Christine Guhl-Sadovy. The competitive grant program was funded by the Department of Treasury's Capital Projects Fund.