Iowa
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 1,661,913
Satellite is doing 2.9% of the work here
The headline says 99.999097% served, but only 97.1% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 48,221 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 | 99.999097% | 1,661,898 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 97.1% | 1,613,677 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 2.9% | 48,221 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 1,661,913 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 1,661,913 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 1,661,913 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.999097% | 1,661,898 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.9988% | 1,661,893 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 79.1% | 1,314,736 |
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 4 of 11 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 (212)
| 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. | 99.1% |
| Mediacom Communications Corp. | Mediacom Communications Corp. | 63.8% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 60.0% |
| Lumen Technologies, Inc. | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | 54.4% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 48.6% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 35.3% |
| Metronet Holdings, LLC | Metronet Holdings, LLC | 19.7% |
| AMG Technology Investment Group LLC | AMG Technology Investment Group LLC | 16.2% |
| JAB Wireless, Inc. | JAB Wireless, Inc. | 14.4% |
| LTD Broadband LLC | LTD Broadband LLC | 14.0% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 13.3% |
| Hawkeye Topco Holdings LLC | Hawkeye Topco Holdings LLC | 8.9% |
| Google LLC | Google LLC | 4.6% |
| Evertek Enterprises | Evertek Enterprises | 3.2% |
| Mutual Telephone Company (IA) | Mutual Telephone Company (IA) | 3.1% |
| Northwest Communications Cooperative Association | Northwest Communications Cooperative Association | 2.7% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 2.4% |
| West Liberty Telephone Company | West Liberty Telephone Company | 2.4% |
| Comelec Services, Inc. | Comelec Services, Inc. | 2.2% |
| South Slope Cooperative Telephone Company, Inc. | South Slope Cooperative Telephone Company, Inc. | 2.2% |
| Cox Communications, Inc. | Cox Communications, Inc. | 1.9% |
| Mahaska Communication Group, LLC | Mahaska Communication Group, LLC | 1.9% |
| Lockridge Networks, LLC | Lockridge Networks, LLC | 1.9% |
| South Central Communications, Inc. | South Central Communications, Inc. | 1.7% |
| Router12 Networks LLC | Router12 Networks LLC | 1.6% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 1.5% |
| Breda Telephone Corp. | Breda Telephone Corp. | 1.4% |
| Kalona Cooperative Telephone Company | Kalona Cooperative Telephone Company | 1.3% |
| Long Lines | Long Lines | 1.2% |
| Cedar Falls Municipal Communications Utility | Cedar Falls Municipal Communications Utility | 1.2% |
| Waterloo Telecommunications Utility | Waterloo Telecommunications Utility | 1.2% |
| Geneseo Communications, Inc. | Geneseo Communications, Inc. | 1.1% |
| Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs | Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs | 1.1% |
| Maquoketa Valley Rural Electric Cooperative | Maquoketa Valley Rural Electric Cooperative | 1.0% |
| Winnebago Cooperative Telecom Association | Winnebago Cooperative Telecom Association | 0.9% |
| City of Muscatine, Iowa | City of Muscatine, Iowa | 0.7% |
| Communications 1 Network, Inc. | Communications 1 Network, Inc. | 0.7% |
| Minburn Telephone Company | Minburn Telephone Company | 0.7% |
| Farmers Mutual Telephone Cooperative of Shellsburg | Farmers Mutual Telephone Cooperative of Shellsburg | 0.7% |
| Grand Mound Cooperative Telephone Association | Grand Mound Cooperative Telephone Association | 0.7% |
| Alpine Communications, LLC | Alpine Communications, LLC | 0.7% |
| Citizens Mutual Telephone Cooperative | Citizens Mutual Telephone Cooperative | 0.7% |
| Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative | Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative | 0.7% |
| Huxley Communications Cooperative | Huxley Communications Cooperative | 0.6% |
| City of Fort Dodge, Iowa | City of Fort Dodge, Iowa | 0.6% |
| Butler-Bremer Mutual Telephone Company | Butler-Bremer Mutual Telephone Company | 0.6% |
| Farmers Telephone Company-Essex | Farmers Telephone Company-Essex | 0.6% |
| Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation | Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation | 0.6% |