Comcast in New Jersey is offering free and discounted Internet options through the federal government's Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The ACP provides eligible low-income households with a credit up to $30 per month toward the cost of their Internet and/or mobile services. Eligible residents can now visit one of 20 Xfinity Store locations in New Jersey for assistance enrolling in ACP through Xfinity and applying their credit to any tier of Xfinity Internet service including Internet Essentials, which provides home Internet service at no cost when the ACP benefit is applied.

Comcast also recently introduced two new ways for customers to benefit from the ACP: A new tier of service that offers twice the download speed of traditional Internet Essentials for $29.95/month. Qualifying customers who subscribe to Internet Essentials Plus and enroll in ACP through Xfinity will effectively get broadband for free after the $30/month ACP benefit is applied. Comcast's top-rated mobile service, which includes 5G, is also eligible for the ACP benefit through Xfinity.

Internet Essentials customers can use their $30/month ACP discount toward a bundle of Xfinity Internet and Xfinity Mobile service. For example, an Internet Essentials customer (paying $9.95/month) can add one line of Unlimited on Xfinity Mobile ($45/month) for $24.95/month after the ACP benefit is applied. Since 2011, Internet Essentials from Comcast – the nation's largest and most comprehensive Internet adoption program – has connected a cumulative total of more than 10 million people from low-income families to the Internet at home, including 276,000 in New Jersey.

Through Project UP, Comcast's?$1 billion commitment to advance digital equity and help build a future of unlimited possibilities, the company is working with thousands of partners across the country, including nonprofits and city leaders, to increase awareness of, and participation in ACP, and to provide digital skills training so everyone can benefit from the opportunities that come from being online. In addition to providing free-WiFi in 35 community centers as part of our Lift Zones program across the state of New Jersey, Comcast has provided more than $300,000 over the last year to New Jersey nonprofits in support of digital equity initiatives and provided 500 laptops to Goodwill Industries of Southern NJ & Philadelphia for participants of their education and workforce development programs. Internet Essentials is Comcast's signature digital equity initiative and the nation's largest and most comprehensive broadband adoption program. In 10 years, it has helped connect 10 million low-income Americans to broadband Internet at home, most for the very first time.

It has a comprehensive design that addresses each of the three major barriers to broadband adoption. This includes multiple options to access free digital literacy training in print, online, and in person; the option to purchase a heavily subsidized, low-cost Internet-ready computer; and low-cost, high-speed Internet service for $9.95 a month, plus tax. Comcast also offers Internet Essentials Plus, which delivers speeds up to 100 Mbps for $29.99 a month, plus tax.

The program is structured as a partnership between Comcast and tens of thousands of school districts, libraries, elected officials and nonprofit community partners.