Michigan
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 5,061,891
Satellite is doing 5.6% of the work here
The headline says 99.99202% served, but only 94.4% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 284,936 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 | 99.99202% | 5,061,487 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 94.4% | 4,776,551 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 5.6% | 284,936 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 99.9999802% | 5,061,890 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 99.9999802% | 5,061,890 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 99.9999802% | 5,061,890 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.99202% | 5,061,487 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.9895% | 5,061,361 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 54.1% | 2,738,730 |
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 10 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 (104)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 100.0% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 99.97% |
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 99.6% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 68.9% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 60.1% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 58.2% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 54.1% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 25.9% |
| WideOpenWest Finance, LLC | WideOpenWest Finance, LLC | 18.0% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 7.3% |
| Mercury Broadband, LLC | Mercury Broadband, LLC | 7.3% |
| Metronet Holdings, LLC | Metronet Holdings, LLC | 4.1% |
| Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | 3.0% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 1.9% |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative | Midwest Energy Cooperative | 1.9% |
| Agri-Valley Communications, Inc. | Agri-Valley Communications, Inc. | 1.6% |
| Surf Air Wireless, LLC | Surf Air Wireless, LLC | 1.3% |
| Great Lakes Energy Connections, Inc. | Great Lakes Energy Connections, Inc. | 1.3% |
| Michwave Technologies, Inc. | Michwave Technologies, Inc. | 1.2% |
| Hilbert Communications LLC | Hilbert Communications LLC | 1.1% |
| CMS Internet LLC | CMS Internet LLC | 1.0% |
| Aspire Networks 1, LLC | Aspire Networks 1, LLC | 1.0% |
| Air Advantage, LLC | Air Advantage, LLC | 0.9% |
| COLI Inc. | COLI Inc. | 0.9% |
| ISP Management Inc. | ISP Management Inc. | 0.9% |
| 123.Net, Inc. | 123.Net, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Tri-County Electric Cooperative | Tri-County Electric Cooperative | 0.6% |
| Baraga Telephone Company Inc. | Baraga Telephone Company Inc. | 0.6% |
| Board of Trustees, Northern Michigan University | Board of Trustees, Northern Michigan University | 0.5% |
| Ace Telephone Association | Ace Telephone Association | 0.5% |
| Barry County Services Company | Barry County Services Company | 0.5% |
| Defiance Holdings, LLC | Defiance Holdings, LLC | 0.5% |
| D & P Communications, Inc. | D & P Communications, Inc. | 0.5% |
| DMCI Broadband, LLC | DMCI Broadband, LLC | 0.5% |
| Presque Isle Electric & Gas Co-op | Presque Isle Electric & Gas Co-op | 0.4% |
| MachTen, Inc. | MachTen, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Ripple Fiber, LLC | Ripple Fiber, LLC | 0.4% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Thumb Electric Cooperative | Thumb Electric Cooperative | 0.4% |
| Hiawatha Communications, Inc. | Hiawatha Communications, Inc. | 0.3% |
| Ridge Tower Network LLC | Ridge Tower Network LLC | 0.3% |
| Block Communications, Inc. | Block Communications, Inc. | 0.3% |
| Holland Board of Public Works | Holland Board of Public Works | 0.3% |
| DayStarr LLC | DayStarr LLC | 0.3% |
| Eclipse Communications | Eclipse Communications | 0.2% |
| City of Wyandotte | City of Wyandotte | 0.2% |
| Bloomingdale Telephone Company, Inc. | Bloomingdale Telephone Company, Inc. | 0.2% |
| SyncWave LLC | SyncWave LLC | 0.2% |
| KEPS Technologies Inc. | KEPS Technologies Inc. | 0.2% |
| Small Business Solutions Group LLC | Small Business Solutions Group LLC | 0.2% |