Colorado
08
FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 2,894,616
Satellite is doing 3.9% of the work here
The headline says 99.99841% served, but only 96.1% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 112,801 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 | 99.99841% | 2,894,570 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 96.1% | 2,781,769 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 3.9% | 112,801 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,894,616 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,894,616 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 99.9999655% | 2,894,615 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.99841% | 2,894,570 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.99699% | 2,894,529 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 79.1% | 2,289,612 |
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 10 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 (116)
| 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% |
| Lumen Technologies, Inc. | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | 85.2% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 78.6% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 68.0% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 56.2% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 35.5% |
| JAB Wireless, Inc. | JAB Wireless, Inc. | 33.1% |
| Windfield Enterprises LLC | Windfield Enterprises LLC | 15.9% |
| Live Wire Networks, Inc. | Live Wire Networks, Inc. | 14.6% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 6.3% |
| Starry, Inc. | Starry, Inc. | 6.2% |
| BAM Broadband OpCo LLC | BAM Broadband OpCo LLC | 5.5% |
| Inventive Wireless of Nebraska, LLC | Inventive Wireless of Nebraska, LLC | 5.2% |
| Aerux LLP | Aerux LLP | 5.0% |
| Visionary Communications, Inc. | Visionary Communications, Inc. | 4.6% |
| Southeast Colorado Power Association | Southeast Colorado Power Association | 4.5% |
| Allo Communications LLC | Allo Communications LLC | 3.4% |
| BIF IV Intrepid HoldCo, LLC | BIF IV Intrepid HoldCo, LLC | 2.9% |
| NE Colorado Cellular, Inc. | NE Colorado Cellular, Inc. | 2.9% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 2.4% |
| Clearnetworx, LLC | Clearnetworx, LLC | 2.4% |
| Istari Holdings LLC | Istari Holdings LLC | 2.4% |
| Ting Fiber, Inc. | Ting Fiber, Inc. | 2.2% |
| Ayva Limited | Ayva Limited | 2.2% |
| Underline El Paso, LLC | Underline El Paso, LLC | 2.2% |
| Smiling J, LLC | Smiling J, LLC | 2.1% |
| Falcon Broadband, Inc. | Falcon Broadband, Inc. | 1.7% |
| City of Fort Collins | City of Fort Collins | 1.7% |
| City of Longmont | City of Longmont | 1.6% |
| City of Loveland | City of Loveland | 1.5% |
| Metronet Holdings, LLC | Metronet Holdings, LLC | 1.4% |
| ITC Broadband Operating, LLC | ITC Broadband Operating, LLC | 1.4% |
| Conexon Connect, LLC | Conexon Connect, LLC | 1.3% |
| Google LLC | Google LLC | 1.2% |
| Delta Montrose Electric Association | Delta Montrose Electric Association | 1.2% |
| ElektraFi LLC | ElektraFi LLC | 1.0% |
| Pathfinder LLC | Pathfinder LLC | 1.0% |
| VFN Holdings, Inc. | VFN Holdings, Inc. | 0.9% |
| ATN International, Inc. | ATN International, Inc. | 0.9% |
| Kentec Communications, Inc. | Kentec Communications, Inc. | 0.9% |
| Blanca Telephone Company/Jade Communications LLC | Blanca Telephone Company/Jade Communications LLC | 0.8% |
| NETEO Inc. | NETEO Inc. | 0.8% |
| Wi-Fiber, Inc. | Wi-Fiber, Inc. | 0.8% |
| San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. | San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 0.8% |
| Force Broadband, LLC | Force Broadband, LLC | 0.8% |
| AlignTec Inc. | AlignTec Inc. | 0.6% |
| Luminate Fiber LLC | Luminate Fiber LLC | 0.5% |
| Nimbus Solutions | Nimbus Solutions | 0.4% |