Mississippi
28
FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 1,612,924
Satellite is doing 4.8% of the work here
The headline says 99.999876% served, but only 95.2% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 76,838 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 | 99.999876% | 1,612,922 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 95.2% | 1,536,084 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 4.8% | 76,838 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 1,612,924 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 1,612,924 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 1,612,924 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.999876% | 1,612,922 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.99771% | 1,612,887 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 68.9% | 1,111,638 |
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 11 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 (60)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 100.0% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 100.0% |
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 100.0% |
| Telapex, Inc. | Telapex, Inc. | 81.2% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 61.4% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 51.7% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 29.2% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 29.2% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 19.7% |
| Block Communications, Inc. | Block Communications, Inc. | 8.6% |
| Coast Electric Power Association | Coast Electric Power Association | 4.6% |
| Singing River Electric Cooperative | Singing River Electric Cooperative | 3.8% |
| Ozborn Communications, LLC | Ozborn Communications, LLC | 3.1% |
| Tombigbee Electric Power Association | Tombigbee Electric Power Association | 3.1% |
| 4-County Fiber, LLC | 4-County Fiber, LLC | 2.7% |
| DE Fastlink, LLC | DE Fastlink, LLC | 2.5% |
| East Mississippi Electric Power Association | East Mississippi Electric Power Association | 2.3% |
| Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association | Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association | 2.2% |
| Optimum Communications | Optimum Communications | 1.9% |
| Telephone Electronics Corporation | Telephone Electronics Corporation | 1.9% |
| Tallahatchie Valley Internet Services | Tallahatchie Valley Internet Services | 1.8% |
| Northcentral Electric Cooperative | Northcentral Electric Cooperative | 1.8% |
| Alcorn County Electric Power Association | Alcorn County Electric Power Association | 1.8% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 1.7% |
| North East Fiber LLC | North East Fiber LLC | 1.7% |
| Delta Electric Power Association | Delta Electric Power Association | 1.5% |
| WEHCO Video, Inc. | WEHCO Video, Inc. | 1.3% |
| Conexon Connect, LLC | Conexon Connect, LLC | 1.2% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 1.1% |
| Mediacom Communications Corp. | Mediacom Communications Corp. | 1.1% |
| Natchez Trace Electric Power Association | Natchez Trace Electric Power Association | 1.0% |
| Fail Telecommunication Corporation | Fail Telecommunication Corporation | 0.9% |
| Mobile Communications LLC | Mobile Communications LLC | 0.8% |
| CableSouth Media III, LLC | CableSouth Media III, LLC | 0.8% |
| Prentiss County Electric Power Association | Prentiss County Electric Power Association | 0.8% |
| Tishomingo County Electric Power Association | Tishomingo County Electric Power Association | 0.8% |
| TecInfo Communications, LLC | TecInfo Communications, LLC | 0.8% |
| M-Pulse Fiber, LLC | M-Pulse Fiber, LLC | 0.8% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 0.7% |
| TEPA Connect LLC | TEPA Connect LLC | 0.6% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Uplink Internet LLC | Uplink Internet LLC | 0.4% |
| Belzoni Cable, LLC | Belzoni Cable, LLC | 0.4% |
| Decatur Holding Company, Inc. | Decatur Holding Company, Inc. | 0.2% |
| Aristotle Unified Communications Inc. | Aristotle Unified Communications Inc. | 0.1% |
| Colonial Telephone Company | Colonial Telephone Company | 0.1% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 0.1% |
| Traceroad, Inc. | Traceroad, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Sunflower Enterprises, Inc. | Sunflower Enterprises, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Aeneas Communications, LLC | Aeneas Communications, LLC | 0.04% |