Montana
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 616,912
Satellite is doing 12.9% of the work here
The headline says 99.999676% served, but only 87.1% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 79,494 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 | 99.999676% | 616,910 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 87.1% | 537,416 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 12.9% | 79,494 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 616,912 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 616,912 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 616,912 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.999676% | 616,910 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.999189% | 616,907 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 48.8% | 300,893 |
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 13 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 (55)
| 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. | 94.5% |
| Lumen Technologies, Inc. | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | 60.5% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 54.4% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 41.7% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 41.0% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 28.1% |
| BHT Investment Holdings LLC | BHT Investment Holdings LLC | 22.6% |
| Centric Integrated Systems, Corp. | Centric Integrated Systems, Corp. | 10.8% |
| SkyNet Communications LLC | SkyNet Communications LLC | 10.0% |
| Montana Internet Corporation | Montana Internet Corporation | 8.5% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 7.5% |
| Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 7.3% |
| Konceptio Data Services, LLC | Konceptio Data Services, LLC | 6.5% |
| Montana Opticom LLC | Montana Opticom LLC | 5.7% |
| Ravalli Electric Cooperative | Ravalli Electric Cooperative | 5.6% |
| Mid-Rivers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Mid-Rivers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 4.7% |
| Triangle Telephone Cooperative Assn., Inc. | Triangle Telephone Cooperative Assn., Inc. | 4.4% |
| Nemont Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Nemont Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 4.1% |
| 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 4.0% |
| Richon, Inc. | Richon, Inc. | 4.0% |
| Visionary Communications, Inc. | Visionary Communications, Inc. | 3.9% |
| Rocky Mountain Internet Inc. | Rocky Mountain Internet Inc. | 3.6% |
| CommunityTel, Inc. | CommunityTel, Inc. | 3.4% |
| MontanaSky Networks, Inc. | MontanaSky Networks, Inc. | 3.4% |
| Northwest Fiber, LLC | Northwest Fiber, LLC | 2.5% |
| Larkin LLC | Larkin LLC | 2.1% |
| VFN Holdings, Inc. | VFN Holdings, Inc. | 1.2% |
| InterBel Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | InterBel Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 1.0% |
| Range Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Range Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 1.0% |
| BHT Holdings, Inc. | BHT Holdings, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Siyeh Communications | Siyeh Communications | 0.5% |
| SS Ventures, Inc. | SS Ventures, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Safelink Internet | Safelink Internet | 0.3% |
| Reservation Telephone Cooperative | Reservation Telephone Cooperative | 0.3% |
| Lincoln Telephone Company, Inc. | Lincoln Telephone Company, Inc. | 0.2% |
| E.L. Automation Inc. | E.L. Automation Inc. | 0.2% |
| Southern Montana Telephone Company | Southern Montana Telephone Company | 0.2% |
| Northern Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Northern Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.2% |
| Hot Springs Telephone Company | Hot Springs Telephone Company | 0.2% |
| Yellowstone Media Design | Yellowstone Media Design | 0.1% |
| Inland Cellular Telephone Company | Inland Cellular Telephone Company | 0.1% |
| Hawk Networks, Inc. | Hawk Networks, Inc. | 0.04% |
| Softworx Inc. | Softworx Inc. | 0.04% |
| Generate-Ubiquity Holdings, LLC | Generate-Ubiquity Holdings, LLC | 0.02% |
| Ruhl Moore Technologies | Ruhl Moore Technologies | 0.01% |
| West River Cooperative Telephone Company | West River Cooperative Telephone Company | 0.01% |
| Bloomingdale Home Telephone Company | Bloomingdale Home Telephone Company | 0.0% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 0.0% |