New Jersey Bell Opportunity NJ Broadband Deployment Schedule, 1993

The chart below was taken directly from the New Jersey Bell Order that outlined the speed of delivering and the year it was supposed to be available. This chart shows that the "Opportunity New Jersey" "ONJ" Plan went from 1992 through 2010. The "Digital Broadband Service" , with a speed of 45 Mbps, in two directions, was to be available starting in 1996 and 100% completed by 2010. The other column, "BAU", was to show when these services would be available if the company didn't get more money from the customers. ---- The year 2030!

 

BAU

 Completeed

ONJ

 Completed

Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN)

1992

2001

1992

1998

Digital switching and signaling systems deployed to provide call routing and database access, which enables "follow me’ type services, for example, that allows customers to program the public switched network to forward their calls automatically to different locations depending on the time of day.

 

 

 

 

Narrowband Digital Service

1992

Post2001

1992

1998

Switching technologies attached to support data rates up to 144,000 bits per second which will enable customers who use any combination of work stations, personal computers or fax machines and telephones.

 

 

 

 

Wideband Digital Service

1994

Before2030

1994

2000

Switching Capabilities matched with transmission capabilities supporting data rates up to 1,500,000 bits per second, for example, that will allow students to remotely access multimedia information, including video, from home or school

Broadband Digital Service

1996

2030

1996

2010

Broadband Digital Service — Switching capabilities matched with transmission capabilities supporting data rates up to 45,000,000 bits per second (45mps) and higher, which enables services, for example, that will allow residential and business customers to receive high definition video and to send and receive interactive (i.e., two way) video signals."

 

 

 

 

"In the Matter of the Application of New Jersey Bell Telephone Company For Approval of Its Plan for an Alternative Regulation, Decision, Docket Number, T092030358, 4/14/03