Kansas
20
FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 1,487,297
Satellite is doing 3.7% of the work here
The headline says 99.99704% served, but only 96.3% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 54,798 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 | 99.99704% | 1,487,253 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 96.3% | 1,432,455 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 3.7% | 54,798 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 99.9999328% | 1,487,296 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 99.9999328% | 1,487,296 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 99.9999328% | 1,487,296 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.99704% | 1,487,253 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.99623% | 1,487,241 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 84.6% | 1,258,684 |
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 8 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 (96)
| 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. | 66.7% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 62.4% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 55.3% |
| Cox Communications, Inc. | Cox Communications, Inc. | 35.0% |
| AMG Technology Investment Group LLC | AMG Technology Investment Group LLC | 23.4% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 19.9% |
| Everfast Fiber Networks, LLC | Everfast Fiber Networks, LLC | 17.8% |
| Google LLC | Google LLC | 17.3% |
| IdeaTek Telcom, LLC | IdeaTek Telcom, LLC | 13.1% |
| Mercury Broadband, LLC | Mercury Broadband, LLC | 11.7% |
| JMZ Corporation | JMZ Corporation | 10.7% |
| KanOkla Telephone Association, Inc. | KanOkla Telephone Association, Inc. | 8.8% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 7.8% |
| Wisper ISP, Inc. | Wisper ISP, Inc. | 5.6% |
| Rural Telephone Service Company | Rural Telephone Service Company | 5.3% |
| Midcontinent Communications | Midcontinent Communications | 4.6% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 4.5% |
| Twin Valley Management, Inc. | Twin Valley Management, Inc. | 4.5% |
| United Telephone Association, Inc. | United Telephone Association, Inc. | 4.5% |
| Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | 4.3% |
| The Butler Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. | The Butler Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. | 2.4% |
| Craw-Kan Telephone Cooperative Inc. | Craw-Kan Telephone Cooperative Inc. | 2.4% |
| S&T Telephone Cooperative Association | S&T Telephone Cooperative Association | 2.4% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 2.2% |
| Delta Communications, LLC | Delta Communications, LLC | 1.9% |
| Wamego Telephone Company, Inc. | Wamego Telephone Company, Inc. | 1.9% |
| LICT Corporation | LICT Corporation | 1.9% |
| Kansas Broadband Internet, Inc. | Kansas Broadband Internet, Inc. | 1.8% |
| Mutual Telephone Company (KS) | Mutual Telephone Company (KS) | 1.2% |
| Pioneer Telephone Association, Inc. | Pioneer Telephone Association, Inc. | 1.2% |
| Optimum Communications | Optimum Communications | 1.1% |
| Mediacom Communications Corp. | Mediacom Communications Corp. | 1.0% |
| Rainbow Telecommunications Association, Inc. | Rainbow Telecommunications Association, Inc. | 1.0% |
| Crazy Communications, LLC | Crazy Communications, LLC | 1.0% |
| Golden Belt Telephone Association, Inc | Golden Belt Telephone Association, Inc | 0.9% |
| Wave Wireless LLC | Wave Wireless LLC | 0.9% |
| Cunningham Management, Inc. | Cunningham Management, Inc. | 0.7% |
| PCs for People | PCs for People | 0.7% |
| Nexus Air Fiber LLC | Nexus Air Fiber LLC | 0.7% |
| Blue Valley Tele-Communications, Inc. | Blue Valley Tele-Communications, Inc. | 0.7% |
| NE Colorado Cellular, Inc. | NE Colorado Cellular, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Zito West Holding, LLC | Zito West Holding, LLC | 0.6% |
| Tri-County Telephone Association, Inc. (KS) | Tri-County Telephone Association, Inc. (KS) | 0.5% |
| South Central Telephone Association, Inc. | South Central Telephone Association, Inc. | 0.5% |
| PGB Fiber, LLC | PGB Fiber, LLC | 0.5% |
| Brolly Communications, Inc. | Brolly Communications, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Townes Telecommunications, Inc. | Townes Telecommunications, Inc. | 0.4% |