Kentucky
21
FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 2,278,158
Satellite is doing 7.6% of the work here
The headline says 99.99811% served, but only 92.4% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 173,044 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 | 99.99811% | 2,278,115 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 92.4% | 2,105,071 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 7.6% | 173,044 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,278,158 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,278,158 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,278,158 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.99811% | 2,278,115 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.99789% | 2,278,110 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 80.7% | 1,838,901 |
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 12 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 (90)
| 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. | 64.5% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 59.9% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 58.2% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 54.5% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 21.7% |
| Cincinnati Bell Inc. | Cincinnati Bell Inc. | 8.4% |
| Intermart Inc. | Intermart Inc. | 8.3% |
| Metronet Holdings, LLC | Metronet Holdings, LLC | 7.2% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 4.8% |
| Benton Ridge Telephone Company | Benton Ridge Telephone Company | 4.6% |
| Brandenburg Communications Corp. | Brandenburg Communications Corp. | 3.1% |
| Mediacom Communications Corp. | Mediacom Communications Corp. | 2.6% |
| North Central Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | North Central Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 2.1% |
| Virginia Everywhere, LLC | Virginia Everywhere, LLC | 2.0% |
| Conexon Connect, LLC | Conexon Connect, LLC | 1.9% |
| South Central Rural Telecommunications Cooperative Inc. | South Central Rural Telecommunications Cooperative Inc. | 1.9% |
| Broadband on Demand LLC | Broadband on Demand LLC | 1.8% |
| Gearheart Communications | Gearheart Communications | 1.6% |
| Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. | Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. | 1.5% |
| Electric Plant Board of the City of Hopkinsville, Kentucky | Electric Plant Board of the City of Hopkinsville, Kentucky | 1.5% |
| Optimum Communications | Optimum Communications | 1.5% |
| Foothills Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. | Foothills Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. | 1.4% |
| ALTIUS Communications LLC | ALTIUS Communications LLC | 1.3% |
| Duo County Telephone Cooperative Inc. | Duo County Telephone Cooperative Inc. | 1.3% |
| West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative Corp. Inc. | West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative Corp. Inc. | 1.2% |
| Electric and Water Plant Board of the City of Frankfort | Electric and Water Plant Board of the City of Frankfort | 1.1% |
| Bluegrass Fiber, LLC | Bluegrass Fiber, LLC | 1.0% |
| White Cloud Communications US LLC | White Cloud Communications US LLC | 1.0% |
| Mountain Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. | Mountain Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. | 0.9% |
| City of Bardstown, KY | City of Bardstown, KY | 0.9% |
| Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. | Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. | 0.8% |
| Owensboro Municipal Utilities | Owensboro Municipal Utilities | 0.7% |
| Zetalink LP | Zetalink LP | 0.7% |
| Henderson Municipal Power & Light | Henderson Municipal Power & Light | 0.6% |
| E. Ritter Communications Holdings, Inc. | E. Ritter Communications Holdings, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Kentucky Wireless, LLC | Kentucky Wireless, LLC | 0.5% |
| Telecast Communications, LLC | Telecast Communications, LLC | 0.5% |
| Eastern Telephone & Technologies, Inc. | Eastern Telephone & Technologies, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Electric Plant Board of the City of Glasgow, KY | Electric Plant Board of the City of Glasgow, KY | 0.4% |
| Harlan Community Television, Inc. | Harlan Community Television, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Logan Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Logan Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Standard Tobacco Company, Inc. | Standard Tobacco Company, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Stupp Fiber, LLC | Stupp Fiber, LLC | 0.4% |
| Murray Electric System | Murray Electric System | 0.3% |
| Zito West Holding, LLC | Zito West Holding, LLC | 0.3% |