Nebraska
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 998,839
Satellite is doing 3.5% of the work here
The headline says 99.999299% served, but only 96.5% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 35,109 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 | 99.999299% | 998,832 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 96.5% | 963,723 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 3.5% | 35,109 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 998,839 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 998,839 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 998,839 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.999299% | 998,832 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.9977% | 998,816 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 80.3% | 802,505 |
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 6 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 (81)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 100.0% |
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 100.0% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 99.99% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 67.9% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 57.0% |
| Lumen Technologies, Inc. | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | 46.0% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 37.8% |
| Allo Communications LLC | Allo Communications LLC | 34.5% |
| Cox Communications, Inc. | Cox Communications, Inc. | 33.7% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 31.3% |
| AMG Technology Investment Group LLC | AMG Technology Investment Group LLC | 30.2% |
| JAB Wireless, Inc. | JAB Wireless, Inc. | 21.7% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 20.8% |
| LTD Broadband LLC | LTD Broadband LLC | 15.0% |
| Great Plains Communications, Inc. | Great Plains Communications, Inc. | 9.2% |
| Nedelco, Inc. | Nedelco, Inc. | 5.6% |
| Generate-Ubiquity Holdings, LLC | Generate-Ubiquity Holdings, LLC | 4.9% |
| Midstates Data Transport, LLC | Midstates Data Transport, LLC | 4.3% |
| Arapahoe Telephone Company | Arapahoe Telephone Company | 4.1% |
| Metronet Holdings, LLC | Metronet Holdings, LLC | 4.0% |
| American Broadband Holding Company | American Broadband Holding Company | 3.9% |
| Big Red Communications | Big Red Communications | 3.5% |
| Glenwood Telephone Membership Corp. | Glenwood Telephone Membership Corp. | 3.4% |
| Inventive Wireless of Nebraska, LLC | Inventive Wireless of Nebraska, LLC | 3.4% |
| NE Colorado Cellular, Inc. | NE Colorado Cellular, Inc. | 3.0% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 2.8% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 2.8% |
| Google LLC | Google LLC | 2.5% |
| DTC Holding Company | DTC Holding Company | 2.3% |
| Pinpoint Holdings, Inc. | Pinpoint Holdings, Inc. | 2.1% |
| Alpine Connective LLC | Alpine Connective LLC | 2.0% |
| Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | 1.8% |
| Zito West Holding, LLC | Zito West Holding, LLC | 1.7% |
| Northeast Nebraska Telephone Company | Northeast Nebraska Telephone Company | 1.2% |
| The Nebraska Central Telephone Co. | The Nebraska Central Telephone Co. | 1.0% |
| Western Iowa Wireless | Western Iowa Wireless | 0.9% |
| Consolidated Companies, Inc. | Consolidated Companies, Inc. | 0.8% |
| Skywave Wireless, Inc. | Skywave Wireless, Inc. | 0.7% |
| Three River Telco | Three River Telco | 0.6% |
| Prairie Hills Wireless, LLC | Prairie Hills Wireless, LLC | 0.6% |
| Long Lines | Long Lines | 0.4% |
| Southeast Nebraska Communications, Inc. | Southeast Nebraska Communications, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Hershey Cooperative Telephone Company | Hershey Cooperative Telephone Company | 0.4% |
| Hemingford Cooperative Telephone Company | Hemingford Cooperative Telephone Company | 0.3% |
| Hawkeye Topco Holdings LLC | Hawkeye Topco Holdings LLC | 0.3% |
| Cozad Telephone Company | Cozad Telephone Company | 0.3% |
| JMZ Corporation | JMZ Corporation | 0.3% |
| Hartington Telecommunications Co., Inc. | Hartington Telecommunications Co., Inc. | 0.3% |
| ITC Broadband Operating, LLC | ITC Broadband Operating, LLC | 0.2% |
| BW Telcom | BW Telcom | 0.2% |