Illinois
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 6,056,155
Satellite is doing 2.3% of the work here
The headline says 99.9986% served, but only 97.7% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 141,122 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 | 99.9986% | 6,056,070 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 97.7% | 5,914,948 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 2.3% | 141,122 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 99.9999835% | 6,056,154 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 99.9999835% | 6,056,154 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 99.999967% | 6,056,153 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.9986% | 6,056,070 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.99808% | 6,056,039 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 73.1% | 4,427,616 |
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 5 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 (136)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 100.0% |
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 99.99% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 99.98% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 77.4% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 75.4% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 74.9% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 61.3% |
| Radiate Holdings, LP | Radiate Holdings, LP | 19.1% |
| JAB Wireless, Inc. | JAB Wireless, Inc. | 8.6% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 8.5% |
| Mediacom Communications Corp. | Mediacom Communications Corp. | 7.4% |
| Metronet Holdings, LLC | Metronet Holdings, LLC | 5.0% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 4.9% |
| Wisper ISP, Inc. | Wisper ISP, Inc. | 4.9% |
| AMG Technology Investment Group LLC | AMG Technology Investment Group LLC | 4.7% |
| WH i3B Bidco LLC/WH i3B Topco, LLC | WH i3B Bidco LLC/WH i3B Topco, LLC | 4.7% |
| Benton Ridge Telephone Company | Benton Ridge Telephone Company | 3.9% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 2.3% |
| MCC Network Services, LLC | MCC Network Services, LLC | 2.2% |
| Bertram Communications LLC | Bertram Communications LLC | 2.1% |
| LTD Broadband LLC | LTD Broadband LLC | 1.7% |
| Pavlov Media, Inc. | Pavlov Media, Inc. | 1.6% |
| American Heartland Fiber Networks LLC | American Heartland Fiber Networks LLC | 1.4% |
| Delta Communications, LLC | Delta Communications, LLC | 1.2% |
| Fidium Holdings, LLC | Fidium Holdings, LLC | 1.1% |
| Opiquad, LLC | Opiquad, LLC | 1.0% |
| Surf Air Wireless, LLC | Surf Air Wireless, LLC | 1.0% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 1.0% |
| Royell Communications, Inc. | Royell Communications, Inc. | 0.7% |
| Computer Dynamics of NW Illinois, LLC | Computer Dynamics of NW Illinois, LLC | 0.7% |
| Geneseo Communications, Inc. | Geneseo Communications, Inc. | 0.7% |
| Adams Telephone Co-Operative | Adams Telephone Co-Operative | 0.6% |
| Wabash Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Wabash Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Cass Communications Management, Inc. | Cass Communications Management, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Illinois Electric Cooperative | Illinois Electric Cooperative | 0.5% |
| Computer Techniques, Inc. | Computer Techniques, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Jo-Carroll Electric Cooperative Inc. | Jo-Carroll Electric Cooperative Inc. | 0.5% |
| Hamilton County Telephone Co-Op | Hamilton County Telephone Co-Op | 0.4% |
| Mid Century Telephone Co-operative | Mid Century Telephone Co-operative | 0.4% |
| Blast Communications, Inc. | Blast Communications, Inc. | 0.4% |
| HTC Holding Co. | HTC Holding Co. | 0.4% |
| 4 SIWI LLC | 4 SIWI LLC | 0.3% |
| Everywhere Wireless, LLC | Everywhere Wireless, LLC | 0.3% |
| Logonix Corporation | Logonix Corporation | 0.3% |
| Digital Network Access Communications Inc. | Digital Network Access Communications Inc. | 0.3% |
| KNR Wireless, LLC. | KNR Wireless, LLC. | 0.3% |
| MR Systems Wireless, LLC | MR Systems Wireless, LLC | 0.3% |
| Gargoyle Technologies, Inc. | Gargoyle Technologies, Inc. | 0.3% |
| MTCO Corporation | MTCO Corporation | 0.3% |
| McDonough Telephone Cooperative Inc. | McDonough Telephone Cooperative Inc. | 0.3% |