Arkansas
05
FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 1,608,780
Satellite is doing 9.1% of the work here
The headline says 99.99677% served, but only 90.9% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 146,670 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 | 99.99677% | 1,608,728 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 90.9% | 1,462,058 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 9.1% | 146,670 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 99.9999378% | 1,608,779 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 99.9999378% | 1,608,779 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 99.9999378% | 1,608,779 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.99677% | 1,608,728 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.99608% | 1,608,717 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 71.9% | 1,156,137 |
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 13 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 (92)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 100.0% |
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 100.0% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 99.99% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 60.9% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 58.9% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 55.7% |
| Cox Communications, Inc. | Cox Communications, Inc. | 18.8% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 16.3% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 15.1% |
| Optimum Communications | Optimum Communications | 13.3% |
| E. Ritter Communications Holdings, Inc. | E. Ritter Communications Holdings, Inc. | 9.1% |
| WEHCO Video, Inc. | WEHCO Video, Inc. | 7.6% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 6.3% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 6.0% |
| First Electric Cooperative Corporation | First Electric Cooperative Corporation | 5.3% |
| Ozarks Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Ozarks Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 5.2% |
| Aristotle Unified Communications Inc. | Aristotle Unified Communications Inc. | 3.9% |
| Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Corporation | Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Corporation | 3.4% |
| North Arkansas Electric Cooperative, Inc. | North Arkansas Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2.2% |
| CableSouth Media III, LLC | CableSouth Media III, LLC | 2.1% |
| Conway Corporation | Conway Corporation | 2.0% |
| Craighead Elecric Cooperative Corporation | Craighead Elecric Cooperative Corporation | 1.9% |
| Hillbilly Wireless Internet, Inc. | Hillbilly Wireless Internet, Inc. | 1.9% |
| South Central Arkansas Electric Cooperative | South Central Arkansas Electric Cooperative | 1.8% |
| CG Computer Works LLC | CG Computer Works LLC | 1.6% |
| Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | 1.6% |
| Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 1.3% |
| Yelcot Holding Group, Inc. | Yelcot Holding Group, Inc. | 1.3% |
| Dobson Technologies, Inc. | Dobson Technologies, Inc. | 1.3% |
| Petit Jean Electric Cooperative Corp. | Petit Jean Electric Cooperative Corp. | 1.2% |
| C&W Communications | C&W Communications | 1.1% |
| Cowboy Internet Services | Cowboy Internet Services | 1.0% |
| D D & B, Inc. | D D & B, Inc. | 1.0% |
| Total Highspeed LLC | Total Highspeed LLC | 0.9% |
| Paragould Light and Water Commission | Paragould Light and Water Commission | 0.9% |
| Ripple Fiber, LLC | Ripple Fiber, LLC | 0.8% |
| Clay County Connect, Inc. | Clay County Connect, Inc. | 0.8% |
| Wisper ISP, Inc. | Wisper ISP, Inc. | 0.7% |
| Premier Holdings LLC | Premier Holdings LLC | 0.7% |
| NATCO Communications, Inc. | NATCO Communications, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Townes Telecommunications, Inc. | Townes Telecommunications, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Red River Cellular Telephone Corporation | Red River Cellular Telephone Corporation | 0.6% |
| Arkansas Telephone Company, Inc. | Arkansas Telephone Company, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Horton's TV & Electronics, Inc. | Horton's TV & Electronics, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Enlightened by Woodruff Electric, LLC | Enlightened by Woodruff Electric, LLC | 0.5% |
| Ind. Co. Cable TV, Inc. | Ind. Co. Cable TV, Inc. | 0.5% |
| MCEC Fiber, Inc. | MCEC Fiber, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Ouachita Electric Cooperative/South Arkansas Telephone Company | Ouachita Electric Cooperative/South Arkansas Telephone Company | 0.5% |
| Southwest Arkansas Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Southwest Arkansas Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.4% |
| C & L Broadband Connect, LLC | C & L Broadband Connect, LLC | 0.4% |