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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 5,833,546
Satellite is doing 3.9% of the work here
The headline says 99.99765% served, but only 96.1% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 230,095 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 | 99.99765% | 5,833,409 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 96.1% | 5,603,314 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 3.9% | 230,095 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 5,833,546 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 5,833,546 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 5,833,546 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.99765% | 5,833,409 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.9959% | 5,833,307 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 58.5% | 3,410,154 |
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 7 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 (126)
| 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. | 97.8% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 77.4% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 72.8% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 71.4% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 63.1% |
| Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | 15.4% |
| Cincinnati Bell Inc. | Cincinnati Bell Inc. | 14.7% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 9.6% |
| Benton Ridge Telephone Company | Benton Ridge Telephone Company | 8.2% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 7.1% |
| Block Communications, Inc. | Block Communications, Inc. | 4.7% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 3.9% |
| PCs for People | PCs for People | 3.5% |
| Defiance Holdings, LLC | Defiance Holdings, LLC | 3.5% |
| Omni Fiber, LLC | Omni Fiber, LLC | 3.0% |
| Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | 2.8% |
| Untangled Technology, LLC | Untangled Technology, LLC | 2.5% |
| Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | 2.4% |
| DigitalC | DigitalC | 2.3% |
| Ampersand Technologies LLC | Ampersand Technologies LLC | 2.3% |
| Amplex Electric, Inc. | Amplex Electric, Inc. | 2.2% |
| Metronet Holdings, LLC | Metronet Holdings, LLC | 2.2% |
| Cox Communications, Inc. | Cox Communications, Inc. | 2.0% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 1.7% |
| Massillon Cable TV, Inc. | Massillon Cable TV, Inc. | 1.6% |
| HDER Link Ltd. | HDER Link Ltd. | 1.2% |
| The Chillicothe Telephone Co | The Chillicothe Telephone Co | 1.1% |
| New Knoxville Telephone Company/GoldStar Communications, LLC | New Knoxville Telephone Company/GoldStar Communications, LLC | 1.0% |
| Farmers Mutual Telephone Company (OH) | Farmers Mutual Telephone Company (OH) | 0.7% |
| Wabash Mutual Telephone Company | Wabash Mutual Telephone Company | 0.7% |
| Bascom Mutual Telephone Company | Bascom Mutual Telephone Company | 0.6% |
| Little Miami Gig, LLC | Little Miami Gig, LLC | 0.6% |
| Hanson Communications, Inc. | Hanson Communications, Inc. | 0.6% |
| North Coast Wireless Communications | North Coast Wireless Communications | 0.6% |
| Mercury Broadband, LLC | Mercury Broadband, LLC | 0.6% |
| Optimum Communications | Optimum Communications | 0.5% |
| Byhalia.net, LLC | Byhalia.net, LLC | 0.4% |
| Mechcom Communications, Inc. | Mechcom Communications, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Skymesh, Inc. | Skymesh, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Southern Ohio Communication Services, Inc. | Southern Ohio Communication Services, Inc. | 0.4% |
| NuWave Technology, Inc. | NuWave Technology, Inc. | 0.3% |
| WaveLinc Communications LLC | WaveLinc Communications LLC | 0.3% |
| Riverside Broadband | Riverside Broadband | 0.2% |
| City of Fairlawn, Ohio | City of Fairlawn, Ohio | 0.2% |
| City of Wadsworth | City of Wadsworth | 0.2% |
| Speedwavz LLC | Speedwavz LLC | 0.2% |
| Consolidated Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Consolidated Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 0.2% |
| JB-Nets, LLC | JB-Nets, LLC | 0.2% |