Minnesota
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 2,853,970
Satellite is doing 2.9% of the work here
The headline says 99.99965% served, but only 97.1% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 82,649 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 | 99.99965% | 2,853,960 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 97.1% | 2,771,311 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 2.9% | 82,649 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,853,970 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,853,970 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,853,970 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.99965% | 2,853,960 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.999474% | 2,853,955 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 68.0% | 1,940,314 |
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 11 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 (119)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 100.0% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 99.99% |
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 95.8% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 69.1% |
| Lumen Technologies, Inc. | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | 64.2% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 53.8% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 47.7% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 43.9% |
| LTD Broadband LLC | LTD Broadband LLC | 24.7% |
| Midcontinent Communications | Midcontinent Communications | 20.1% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 17.4% |
| Mediacom Communications Corp. | Mediacom Communications Corp. | 9.5% |
| Metronet Holdings, LLC | Metronet Holdings, LLC | 7.5% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 6.5% |
| Netwave Broadband | Netwave Broadband | 4.1% |
| Arvig Enterprises, Inc. | Arvig Enterprises, Inc. | 3.8% |
| Nuvera Communications, Inc. | Nuvera Communications, Inc. | 3.3% |
| Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc. | Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc. | 3.3% |
| Hilbert Communications LLC | Hilbert Communications LLC | 2.5% |
| Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative | Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative | 2.4% |
| Fidium Holdings, LLC | Fidium Holdings, LLC | 2.1% |
| BIF IV Intrepid HoldCo, LLC | BIF IV Intrepid HoldCo, LLC | 2.0% |
| Gateway Fiber Holdings LLC | Gateway Fiber Holdings LLC | 1.9% |
| PCs for People | PCs for People | 1.8% |
| Consolidated Telephone Company | Consolidated Telephone Company | 1.7% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 1.6% |
| Southeast MN Wifi, LLC | Southeast MN Wifi, LLC | 1.6% |
| Minnesota WiFi | Minnesota WiFi | 1.4% |
| Broadband Corp. | Broadband Corp. | 1.1% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 1.1% |
| East Central Energy | East Central Energy | 1.1% |
| Minnesota Valley Television Improvement Corporation | Minnesota Valley Television Improvement Corporation | 1.1% |
| Rural Communications Holding Corporation | Rural Communications Holding Corporation | 1.0% |
| Garden Valley Telephone Company | Garden Valley Telephone Company | 0.9% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 0.8% |
| Clarity Telecom, LLC | Clarity Telecom, LLC | 0.7% |
| Park Region Mutual Telephone Company | Park Region Mutual Telephone Company | 0.7% |
| Federated Rural Electric Association | Federated Rural Electric Association | 0.6% |
| Meeker Cooperative Light & Power Association | Meeker Cooperative Light & Power Association | 0.6% |
| Wikstrom Telephone Company, Inc. | Wikstrom Telephone Company, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Woodstock Telephone Company | Woodstock Telephone Company | 0.5% |
| Sjoberg's Inc. | Sjoberg's Inc. | 0.5% |
| Ace Telephone Association | Ace Telephone Association | 0.5% |
| Krms Products LLC | Krms Products LLC | 0.5% |
| JTN Communications | JTN Communications | 0.5% |
| AirFiber, Inc. | AirFiber, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Zito West Holding, LLC | Zito West Holding, LLC | 0.5% |
| Federated Telephone Cooperative | Federated Telephone Cooperative | 0.4% |
| Benton Cooperative Telephone Company | Benton Cooperative Telephone Company | 0.4% |
| Hanson Communications, Inc. | Hanson Communications, Inc. | 0.4% |