Pennsylvania
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 6,356,781
Satellite is doing 3.0% of the work here
The headline says 99.9% served, but only 96.9% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 188,521 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 | 99.9% | 6,350,936 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 96.9% | 6,162,415 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 3.0% | 188,521 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 99.9999528% | 6,356,778 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 99.9999528% | 6,356,778 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 99.9999528% | 6,356,778 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.9% | 6,350,936 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.6% | 6,331,733 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 66.3% | 4,212,476 |
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 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 (99)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 100.0% |
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 99.96% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 95.6% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 74.2% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 71.3% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 70.0% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 52.5% |
| CTI Networks, Inc. | CTI Networks, Inc. | 9.1% |
| Service Electric Television Inc. | Service Electric Television Inc. | 8.1% |
| Radiate Holdings, LP | Radiate Holdings, LP | 6.5% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 5.4% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 5.2% |
| Pencor Services, Inc. | Pencor Services, Inc. | 4.5% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 4.3% |
| Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | 4.2% |
| Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | 3.7% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 2.8% |
| Skypacket Networks Inc. | Skypacket Networks Inc. | 2.8% |
| PCs for People | PCs for People | 1.9% |
| Upward Broadband, LLC | Upward Broadband, LLC | 1.8% |
| Shenandoah Telecommunications Company | Shenandoah Telecommunications Company | 1.7% |
| Greenlight Networks Holding Corp. | Greenlight Networks Holding Corp. | 1.6% |
| ICON Technologies Inc. | ICON Technologies Inc. | 1.4% |
| Empire Telephone Corporation/North Penn Telephone Company | Empire Telephone Corporation/North Penn Telephone Company | 1.2% |
| Lehigh WiFi LLC | Lehigh WiFi LLC | 1.1% |
| Crowsnest Broadband LLC | Crowsnest Broadband LLC | 1.1% |
| In The Stix Broadband LLC | In The Stix Broadband LLC | 1.1% |
| Fidium Holdings, LLC | Fidium Holdings, LLC | 1.1% |
| Zito West Holding, LLC | Zito West Holding, LLC | 1.0% |
| River Valley Internet LLC | River Valley Internet LLC | 0.9% |
| Double Dog Communications, Inc. | Double Dog Communications, Inc. | 0.9% |
| Tower Bridge Mobile Holdings, LLC | Tower Bridge Mobile Holdings, LLC | 0.7% |
| Adams CATV Inc. | Adams CATV Inc. | 0.6% |
| Salsgiver, Inc. | Salsgiver, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Velocity.Net Communications, Inc. | Velocity.Net Communications, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Omni Fiber, LLC | Omni Fiber, LLC | 0.3% |
| Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative | Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative | 0.3% |
| Mifflin County Wireless | Mifflin County Wireless | 0.3% |
| Future Fiber FinCo, LLC | Future Fiber FinCo, LLC | 0.3% |
| The North-Eastern Pennsylvania Telephone Company | The North-Eastern Pennsylvania Telephone Company | 0.3% |
| Centre WISP Venture Company, LLC | Centre WISP Venture Company, LLC | 0.3% |
| Laurel Highland Total Communications, Inc. | Laurel Highland Total Communications, Inc. | 0.3% |
| Citizens Telephone Company of Kecksburg | Citizens Telephone Company of Kecksburg | 0.2% |
| Konvergence Technologies | Konvergence Technologies | 0.2% |
| Susquehanna Broadband, LLC | Susquehanna Broadband, LLC | 0.2% |
| Xtreme Enterprises LLC | Xtreme Enterprises LLC | 0.2% |
| QCOL, Inc. | QCOL, Inc. | 0.2% |
| Claverack Communications, Inc. | Claverack Communications, Inc. | 0.2% |
| VITALink LLC | VITALink LLC | 0.2% |
| Hickory Utility Services, Inc. | Hickory Utility Services, Inc. | 0.1% |