Alabama
01
FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 2,683,418
Satellite is doing 9.2% of the work here
The headline says 99.999329% served, but only 90.8% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 246,525 broadband serviceable units whose only reported option at 100/20 is satellite.
- 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.
Who can get what
Shares of all broadband serviceable units in the total partition, residential class.
Headline versus ground truth
| Lens | Share | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Any technology, including satellite | 99.999329% | 2,683,400 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 90.8% | 2,436,875 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 9.2% | 246,525 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,683,418 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,683,418 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,683,418 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.999329% | 2,683,400 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.99899% | 2,683,391 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 63.2% | 1,695,535 |
Tiers are cumulative: a unit counted at a higher tier is also counted at every lower tier, so these rows must not be summed.
Fiber and upload capability
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.
Every technology
How this compares
Ranked 14 of 15 within Nation US on any terrestrial coverage at the benchmark.
Ranking deliberately uses ground infrastructure rather than the headline. Satellite reaches nearly everywhere, so ranking on it puts most areas at 100% and separates nothing.
Reporting providers (75)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 100.0% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 100.0% |
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 99.99% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 64.7% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 63.7% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 54.0% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 42.0% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 19.7% |
| WideOpenWest Finance, LLC | WideOpenWest Finance, LLC | 12.0% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 11.7% |
| Mediacom Communications Corp. | Mediacom Communications Corp. | 10.1% |
| Telapex, Inc. | Telapex, Inc. | 7.0% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 3.2% |
| Google LLC | Google LLC | 3.1% |
| Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | 2.8% |
| Tombigbee Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Tombigbee Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2.0% |
| Central Alabama Electric Cooperative | Central Alabama Electric Cooperative | 2.0% |
| Cable TV of East Alabama | Cable TV of East Alabama | 1.8% |
| Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. | Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. | 1.6% |
| Cullman Electric Cooperative | Cullman Electric Cooperative | 1.5% |
| Future Fiber FinCo, LLC | Future Fiber FinCo, LLC | 1.5% |
| JWEMC Communications LLC | JWEMC Communications LLC | 1.4% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 1.3% |
| Covington Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Covington Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 1.0% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 0.9% |
| West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative Corp. Inc. | West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative Corp. Inc. | 0.9% |
| Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative | Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative | 0.9% |
| SP Broadband, Inc. | SP Broadband, Inc. | 0.8% |
| Pea River Electric Cooperative | Pea River Electric Cooperative | 0.8% |
| Killians Electronics LLC | Killians Electronics LLC | 0.7% |
| North Alabama Electric Cooperative | North Alabama Electric Cooperative | 0.5% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 0.5% |
| New Hope Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (AL) | New Hope Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (AL) | 0.4% |
| Pine Belt Communications Co. Inc. | Pine Belt Communications Co. Inc. | 0.4% |
| Millry Corporation | Millry Corporation | 0.4% |
| Telephone Electronics Corporation | Telephone Electronics Corporation | 0.3% |
| Scottsboro Electric Power Board | Scottsboro Electric Power Board | 0.3% |
| Mon-Cre Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Mon-Cre Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.2% |
| Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | 0.2% |
| The Utilities Board of the City of Sylacauga | The Utilities Board of the City of Sylacauga | 0.2% |
| Troy Cablevision, Inc. | Troy Cablevision, Inc. | 0.2% |
| HDD Broadband, Inc. | HDD Broadband, Inc. | 0.2% |
| Demopolis CATV Co. | Demopolis CATV Co. | 0.1% |
| Fast Wireless, LLC | Fast Wireless, LLC | 0.1% |
| American Broadband Holding Company | American Broadband Holding Company | 0.1% |
| Total Radio Service, Inc. | Total Radio Service, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Ragland Telephone Co., Inc. | Ragland Telephone Co., Inc. | 0.1% |
| Block Communications, Inc. | Block Communications, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Fidium Holdings, LLC | Fidium Holdings, LLC | 0.1% |
| Gigafy, LLC | Gigafy, LLC | 0.1% |