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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 9,267,668
Satellite is doing 2.2% of the work here
The headline says 99.999525% served, but only 97.8% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 201,435 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 | 99.999525% | 9,267,624 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 97.8% | 9,066,189 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 2.2% | 201,435 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 9,267,668 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 9,267,668 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 9,267,668 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.999525% | 9,267,624 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.999245% | 9,267,598 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 63.6% | 5,890,199 |
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 4 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 (86)
| 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. | 99.99% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 79.8% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 77.6% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 60.2% |
| Optimum Communications | Optimum Communications | 32.2% |
| Starry, Inc. | Starry, Inc. | 15.0% |
| Radiate Holdings, LP | Radiate Holdings, LP | 8.5% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 5.0% |
| Greenlight Networks Holding Corp. | Greenlight Networks Holding Corp. | 3.6% |
| MHG Telco LLC | MHG Telco LLC | 2.8% |
| Hudson Valley Wireless | Hudson Valley Wireless | 2.6% |
| Empire Telephone Corporation/North Penn Telephone Company | Empire Telephone Corporation/North Penn Telephone Company | 1.5% |
| Xchange Telecom Corp. | Xchange Telecom Corp. | 1.4% |
| Future Fiber FinCo, LLC | Future Fiber FinCo, LLC | 1.1% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 0.8% |
| Atlas Connectivity, LLC | Atlas Connectivity, LLC | 0.8% |
| Compass Broadband Network, Inc. | Compass Broadband Network, Inc. | 0.8% |
| Zeta Broadband, Inc. | Zeta Broadband, Inc. | 0.7% |
| Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 0.5% |
| Mid-Hudson Cablevision | Mid-Hudson Cablevision | 0.5% |
| Court Square Capital Partners | Court Square Capital Partners | 0.4% |
| VTel Wireless, Inc. | VTel Wireless, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Archtop Fiber Holdings LLC | Archtop Fiber Holdings LLC | 0.4% |
| Fidium Holdings, LLC | Fidium Holdings, LLC | 0.3% |
| Xtreme Enterprises LLC | Xtreme Enterprises LLC | 0.3% |
| CIBL, Inc. | CIBL, Inc. | 0.3% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 0.2% |
| Haefele TV Inc. | Haefele TV Inc. | 0.2% |
| Delhi Telephone Company | Delhi Telephone Company | 0.2% |
| Southern Tier Wireless | Southern Tier Wireless | 0.2% |
| MTC Cable | MTC Cable | 0.1% |
| North Shore Networks LLC | North Shore Networks LLC | 0.1% |
| Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | 0.1% |
| The Middleburgh Telephone Company | The Middleburgh Telephone Company | 0.1% |
| Planet Networks, Inc. | Planet Networks, Inc. | 0.1% |
| State Telephone Company, Inc. | State Telephone Company, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Westelcom Network, Inc. | Westelcom Network, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Andrena, Inc. | Andrena, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Otsego Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Otsego Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 0.1% |
| FiberSpark Inc. | FiberSpark Inc. | 0.1% |
| Adams CATV Inc. | Adams CATV Inc. | 0.1% |
| Champlain Telephone Company | Champlain Telephone Company | 0.1% |
| Citizens Telephone Company of Hammond NY, Inc. | Citizens Telephone Company of Hammond NY, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | 0.1% |
| Germantown Telephone Company, Inc. | Germantown Telephone Company, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Chazy & Westport Telephone Corp. | Chazy & Westport Telephone Corp. | 0.1% |
| Northland Telephone Systems | Northland Telephone Systems | 0.1% |