99.99453%Served at 100/20
91.3%Ground infrastructure
53.9%Fiber available
63.5%Gigabit available

Louisiana

State 22 FCC data as of 2025-12-31

Total broadband serviceable units: 2,357,476

Satellite is doing 8.7% of the work here

The headline says 99.99453% served, but only 91.3% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 205,532 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

100.0% Served at 100/20 Underserved Unserved

Shares of all broadband serviceable units in the total partition, residential class.

Headline versus ground truth

Any technology 100.0% Ground infrastructure 91.3% Satellite only 8.7%
Coverage at the benchmark by lens
LensShareUnits
Any technology, including satellite99.99453%2,357,347
Ground infrastructure only91.3%2,151,815
Satellite is the only option at the benchmark8.7%205,532

Coverage by speed tier

0.2/0.2 Mbps 100.0% 10/1 Mbps 100.0% 25/3 Mbps 100.0% 100/20 Mbps 100.0% 250/25 Mbps 100.0% 1000/100 Mbps 63.5%
Cumulative coverage by speed tier
TierShareEstimated units
0.2/0.2 Mbps 99.9999576% 2,357,475
10/1 Mbps 99.9999576% 2,357,475
25/3 Mbps 99.9999576% 2,357,475
100/20 Mbps 99.99453% 2,357,347
250/25 Mbps 99.99436% 2,357,343
1000/100 Mbps 63.5% 1,497,523

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

Fiber 53.9% Cable 77.1% Gigabit (1000/100) 63.5%

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

NGSO Satellite 100.0% Cable 77.1% Fiber 53.9% Licensed Fixed Wireless 43.7% Unlicensed Fixed Wireless 8.5% Copper 2.8% GSO Satellite 0.0% Other 0.0%

How this compares

Ranked 12 of 15 within Nation US on any terrestrial coverage at the benchmark.

median 96.7% lowest 81.3% highest 99.8%

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 (63)

Providers reporting service in this area
ProviderHolding companyResidential coverage
Viasat, Inc. Viasat, Inc. 100.0%
EchoStar Corporation EchoStar Corporation 99.99%
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 99.98%
AT&T Inc. AT&T Inc. 69.2%
T-Mobile USA, Inc. T-Mobile USA, Inc. 63.4%
Verizon Communications Inc. Verizon Communications Inc. 50.1%
Cox Communications, Inc. Cox Communications, Inc. 40.1%
Charter Communications Charter Communications 13.5%
Comcast Corporation Comcast Corporation 11.3%
Optimum Communications Optimum Communications 11.2%
JORP, LLC JORP, LLC 7.1%
Lafayette City Parish Consolidated Government Lafayette City Parish Consolidated Government 5.0%
EATEL Corp. EATEL Corp. 4.9%
Metronet Holdings, LLC Metronet Holdings, LLC 4.3%
Cajun Broadband, Inc. Cajun Broadband, Inc. 3.7%
CableSouth Media III, LLC CableSouth Media III, LLC 3.6%
Connect Holding II LLC Connect Holding II LLC 3.6%
Cable One, Inc. Cable One, Inc. 2.9%
Nola Broadband, Inc. Nola Broadband, Inc. 2.3%
AMG Technology Investment Group LLC AMG Technology Investment Group LLC 2.0%
Tammany Wireless Holdings, LLC Tammany Wireless Holdings, LLC 1.7%
Reserve Holdings, Inc. Reserve Holdings, Inc. 1.7%
American Broadband Holding Company American Broadband Holding Company 1.7%
Allen's TV Cable Service, Inc. Allen's TV Cable Service, Inc. 1.2%
Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC 1.1%
Kaplan Telephone Company, Inc. Kaplan Telephone Company, Inc. 1.0%
Conexon Connect, LLC Conexon Connect, LLC 0.8%
Fulair, LLC Fulair, LLC 0.8%
Acadiana Broadband Acadiana Broadband 0.7%
CP-Tel Holdings, Inc. CP-Tel Holdings, Inc. 0.5%
Volt Broadband, LLC Volt Broadband, LLC 0.5%
Boot State Technologies Boot State Technologies 0.5%
Faster Cajun LLC Faster Cajun LLC 0.5%
318 HighSpeed LLC 318 HighSpeed LLC 0.3%
Trinity Communications, LLC Trinity Communications, LLC 0.3%
Direct Management Company Direct Management Company 0.3%
E. Ritter Communications Holdings, Inc. E. Ritter Communications Holdings, Inc. 0.2%
Gonthier Inc. Gonthier Inc. 0.2%
AirUltra, LLC AirUltra, LLC 0.2%
Zito West Holding, LLC Zito West Holding, LLC 0.1%
Bayou Cable Inc. Bayou Cable Inc. 0.1%
Lake Bruin Wireless LLC Lake Bruin Wireless LLC 0.1%
Camellia City Fiber, LLC Camellia City Fiber, LLC 0.1%
Delcambre Telephone Co. Delcambre Telephone Co. 0.1%
Northeast Louisiana Telephone Co., Inc. Northeast Louisiana Telephone Co., Inc. 0.1%
SkyRider Communications LLC SkyRider Communications LLC 0.1%
ClearPath Fiber LLC ClearPath Fiber LLC 0.03%
Canebrake Connections LLC Canebrake Connections LLC 0.02%
Cowboy Internet Services Cowboy Internet Services 0.02%
Kwikbit Internet Kwikbit Internet 0.02%

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