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  "message": "Broadband availability for South Dakota",
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      "id": "46",
      "name": "South Dakota",
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      "note": "Area partitions are not additive: total already contains urban and rural, and tribal and nontribal. Exactly one partition is reported."
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      "label": "Broadband serviceable unit",
      "description": "A unit at a broadband serviceable location as counted by the FCC Location Fabric. Not a household, a person, or a subscription."
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      "unserved_percent": 0,
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        "note": null
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        "note": null
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        "note": "Former FCC fixed broadband benchmark, adopted 2015."
      },
      {
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        "upload_mbps": 20,
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        "note": "Current FCC fixed broadband benchmark, adopted March 2024."
      },
      {
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        "label": "250/25 Mbps",
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        "share": 1,
        "percent": 100,
        "estimated_units": 498516,
        "note": null
      },
      {
        "tier_id": "t_1000_100",
        "label": "1000/100 Mbps",
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        "percent": 76.6,
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        "note": "Gigabit-class service."
      }
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        "units": 498516,
        "technology": "Any Technology"
      },
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        "percent": 96.3,
        "units": 480001,
        "technology": "Any Terrestrial"
      },
      "satellite_only": {
        "label": "Satellite is the only option at the benchmark",
        "percent": 3.7,
        "units": 18515,
        "technology": "Any Technology minus Any Terrestrial",
        "caveats": [
          "Satellite reaches almost everywhere, so a headline that includes it approaches 100% nearly everywhere and stops distinguishing places.",
          "Availability is not capacity. Satellite constellations share bandwidth across all subscribers in a cell, so advertised speed is not a guarantee the whole reported population could be served at once.",
          "Latency, weather sensitivity, data policies, and equipment cost differ materially from wired service, and none of them appear in this dataset.",
          "Funding and policy programmes frequently treat satellite-only locations as unserved for their own purposes. Check the programme's own definition rather than this headline."
        ]
      }
    },
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      "cable_percent": 56.4,
      "gigabit_percent": 76.6,
      "high_upload_percent": 76.6,
      "symmetric_note": "The published summary reports six fixed download/upload pairs and no symmetric tier above 0.2/0.2 Mbps, so symmetric service cannot be measured from it directly. Upload capability is shown through the highest tier, which requires 100 Mbps upstream, and fiber is reported separately because it is the technology that typically delivers matched speeds. A symmetric share is derivable from the FCC location-level availability files, which carry each location's advertised upload speed, but that product is roughly 973 million rows per vintage and is not ingested here."
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        "any_service_percent": 56.7,
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      {
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        "any_service_percent": 16.7,
        "gigabit_percent": 0
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        "technology": "NGSO Satellite",
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        "name": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp.",
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        "name": "T-Mobile USA, Inc.",
        "holding_company": "T-Mobile USA, Inc.",
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      {
        "provider_id": "130228",
        "name": "Lumen Technologies, Inc.",
        "holding_company": "Lumen Technologies, Inc.",
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        "provider_id": "131425",
        "name": "Verizon Communications Inc.",
        "holding_company": "Verizon Communications Inc.",
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        "business_percent": 24.2
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        "name": "Clarity Telecom, LLC",
        "holding_company": "Clarity Telecom, LLC",
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        "provider_id": "130077",
        "name": "AT&T Inc.",
        "holding_company": "AT&T Inc.",
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        "business_percent": 21.1
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        "provider_id": "340029",
        "name": "BHT Investment Holdings LLC",
        "holding_company": "BHT Investment Holdings LLC",
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        "provider_id": "130550",
        "name": "Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.",
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        "provider_id": "240056",
        "name": "LTD Broadband LLC",
        "holding_company": "LTD Broadband LLC",
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        "business_percent": 6.2
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      {
        "provider_id": "130673",
        "name": "James Valley Cooperative Telephone Company",
        "holding_company": "James Valley Cooperative Telephone Company",
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        "provider_id": "130662",
        "name": "Interstate Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.",
        "holding_company": "Interstate Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.",
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        "provider_id": "131422",
        "name": "Venture Communications Cooperative, Inc.",
        "holding_company": "Venture Communications Cooperative, Inc.",
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        "business_percent": 4.3
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        "provider_id": "130040",
        "name": "Alliance Communications Cooperative, Inc.",
        "holding_company": "Alliance Communications Cooperative, Inc.",
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        "name": "Mediacom Communications Corp.",
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        "name": "JAB Wireless, Inc.",
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        "business_percent": 3.7
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        "provider_id": "131409",
        "name": "Valley Telecommunications Cooperative Association, Inc.",
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        "business_percent": 2.6
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        "provider_id": "130271",
        "name": "City of Brookings Telephone Fund",
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        "business_percent": 2.3
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        "provider_id": "150266",
        "name": "Hanson Communications, Inc.",
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        "business_percent": 2.1
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        "name": "Santel Communications Cooperative",
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        "provider_id": "350012",
        "name": "ATV Holdings, LLC",
        "holding_company": "ATV Holdings, LLC",
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        "business_percent": 1.9
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        "provider_id": "130828",
        "name": "Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD)",
        "holding_company": "Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD)",
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        "name": "Wavelength LLC",
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        "business_percent": 1.6
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      "rank": 9,
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      "note": "No other area shares this value."
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        "source_id": "us-fcc-bdc",
        "name": "FCC Broadband Data Collection",
        "release_id": "us-fcc-bdc-2025-12-31-v1",
        "vintage": "2025-12-31",
        "published_at": null,
        "retrieved_at": "2026-09-28T18:01:03.271Z",
        "license": "United States Government work",
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