Internet providers in New Jersey

8 of the operators we cover report service somewhere in New Jersey, of which 4 sell fiber. Below is how much of the state each one reaches, how New Jersey compares on choice, and what that means for a specific address.

How much choice does New Jersey actually have?

New Jersey ranks 44 of 52 for wired internet choice, among the worst in the country. 25.6% of homes here have at most one wired company able to serve them, against 15.7% nationally.

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Measure	New Jersey	United States
Residential locations	2,567,038	114,550,235
At most one wireline company in the block	25.6%	15.7%
In a block with no wired company at all	0.1%	1.5%
In a block where nobody reports fiber	23.8%	27.9%
In a block with exactly one fiber company	43.3%	52.2%
In a block with two or more wired companies, none of them fiber	1.7%	17.4%

New Jersey has less wireline choice than the country as a whole. More of the state sits in blocks where a single company is the only wired option. These are floors rather than estimates, for reasons we set out in the national study. In New Jersey that third row is 1,731 residential locations with no wired option reported by anybody: not fiber, not cable, not copper.

Having a choice is not the same as having a good one. 1,910,327 New Jersey locations sit in a block with two or more wired companies. Of those, 97.7% have at least one company offering fiber, and 0.0% have nothing but copper between all of the companies reaching them. The last row of the table is the same fact counted against the whole state rather than against the households it applies to.

Two providers compared in New Jersey

Both operators in each pair report service somewhere in New Jersey, so these are choices a reader here might actually face:

Providers serving New Jersey

Share of New Jersey residential locations each operator reports it can reach. A low percentage is not a bad network. It usually means a network concentrated in a few towns.

Provider	Technology	Share of New Jersey covered
Verizon Fios	Mixed *	82.0%
T-Mobile Home Internet	Fixed Wireless	77.1%
AT&T Fiber	Mixed *	62.6%
Xfinity	Cable	57.6%
Optimum	Mixed *	40.4%
Brightspeed	Mixed *	3.1%
Spectrum	Cable	2.2%
Hotwire Communications	Fiber	Under 0.1%

* This operator reports several technologies to the FCC nationally, and the federal data does not break that down by state, so we cannot tell you which one reaches a specific address in New Jersey. Read the percentage as the whole company, not the brand. A national carrier files its fiber, its cable, its copper and its fixed wireless under one identifier. We mark a technology plainly only when at least 80% of what that operator reports nationally sits on it, or when its entire filing sits on one technology.

Covers the 79 operators we have mapped from FCC holding-company names to the brand people actually buy. Smaller operators that file under a name we have not yet matched are not listed here, so a local provider missing from this table may still serve you, because the address check below reads the raw filing and will show it.

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Wired competition in every New Jersey county, ranked, with the fiber gap and gigabit availability alongside. The counties scoring worst on competition are the ones with fiber everywhere, and the page explains why.

What speeds are available across New Jersey

Share of New Jersey homes where at least one provider reports offering that speed on that technology. This is genuine state level data, the level the FCC actually publishes it at.

Technology	25/3 Mbps	100/20 Mbps	250/25 Mbps	1 Gbps / 100 Mbps
Fiber	67%	67%	67%	55%
Cable	96%	96%	96%	39%
Fixed wireless	80%	42%	2%	0%
Any technology	100%	100%	100%	79%

Reading this page honestly

A statewide percentage tells you about New Jersey. It does not tell you about your street. Fiber in particular was built out block by block, and nationally up to one in nine residential locations sits in a block where fiber exists and still does not reach the building, so a provider showing strong statewide coverage here can still tell you no.

Providers report their own coverage to the FCC and the data is known to overstate it. Where a provider says it cannot serve you, it is right and the filing is wrong.