Maryland
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 2,754,300
Satellite is doing 1.2% of the work here
The headline says 99.9701% served, but only 98.8% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 32,126 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 | 99.9701% | 2,753,477 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 98.8% | 2,721,351 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 1.2% | 32,126 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,754,300 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,754,300 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,754,300 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.9701% | 2,753,477 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.6% | 2,742,868 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 76.1% | 2,095,806 |
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 3 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 (58)
| 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. | 95.2% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 89.4% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 80.2% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 78.1% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 50.6% |
| Believe Wireless, LLC | Believe Wireless, LLC | 28.4% |
| Radiate Holdings, LP | Radiate Holdings, LP | 7.6% |
| Pocomoke Holdings | Pocomoke Holdings | 4.9% |
| Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | 3.9% |
| ALTIUS Communications LLC | ALTIUS Communications LLC | 2.9% |
| Schurz Communications, Inc. | Schurz Communications, Inc. | 2.9% |
| Talkie Communications, Inc. | Talkie Communications, Inc. | 1.5% |
| Shenandoah Telecommunications Company | Shenandoah Telecommunications Company | 1.2% |
| Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | 1.1% |
| Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | 1.0% |
| Skypacket Networks Inc. | Skypacket Networks Inc. | 0.9% |
| IQ Fiber Intermediate Holdings, LLC | IQ Fiber Intermediate Holdings, LLC | 0.6% |
| Easton Utilities Commission | Easton Utilities Commission | 0.5% |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative | Choptank Electric Cooperative | 0.5% |
| Mediacom Communications Corp. | Mediacom Communications Corp. | 0.5% |
| Declaration Networks Group, Inc. | Declaration Networks Group, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Starry, Inc. | Starry, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Quantum Telecommunications, Inc. | Quantum Telecommunications, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Ting Fiber, Inc. | Ting Fiber, Inc. | 0.3% |
| Eastern Shore Communications, LLC | Eastern Shore Communications, LLC | 0.3% |
| Virginia Everywhere, LLC | Virginia Everywhere, LLC | 0.3% |
| CTI Networks, Inc. | CTI Networks, Inc. | 0.2% |
| Greenlight Networks Holding Corp. | Greenlight Networks Holding Corp. | 0.2% |
| Bay Country Communications | Bay Country Communications | 0.2% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 0.2% |
| Mountain Communications, LLC | Mountain Communications, LLC | 0.1% |
| Morgan Wireless LLC | Morgan Wireless LLC | 0.1% |
| QCOL, Inc. | QCOL, Inc. | 0.1% |
| One Ring Networks, Inc. | One Ring Networks, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Trive Capital Management LLC | Trive Capital Management LLC | 0.1% |
| RiverNet, LLC | RiverNet, LLC | 0.1% |
| Double Dog Communications, Inc. | Double Dog Communications, Inc. | 0.04% |
| Andrena, Inc. | Andrena, Inc. | 0.03% |
| Crowsnest Broadband LLC | Crowsnest Broadband LLC | 0.02% |
| Montgomery County, Maryland | Montgomery County, Maryland | 0.02% |
| Simple Fiber, LLC | Simple Fiber, LLC | 0.02% |
| Litebridge LLC | Litebridge LLC | 0.01% |
| Somerfield Cable TV | Somerfield Cable TV | 0.01% |
| Upward Broadband, LLC | Upward Broadband, LLC | 0.01% |
| Allied Telecom Group, LLC | Allied Telecom Group, LLC | 0.0% |
| Atlantech Online, Inc. | Atlantech Online, Inc. | 0.0% |
| Cogent Communications Group | Cogent Communications Group | 0.0% |
| Digital Connections, Inc. | Digital Connections, Inc. | 0.0% |