South Carolina
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 2,774,232
Satellite is doing 2.8% of the work here
The headline says 99.999351% served, but only 97.2% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 76,530 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 | 99.999351% | 2,774,214 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 97.2% | 2,697,684 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 2.8% | 76,530 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,774,232 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,774,232 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 2,774,232 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.999351% | 2,774,214 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.999351% | 2,774,214 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 66.9% | 1,856,879 |
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 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 (45)
| 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. | 100.0% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 69.2% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 63.1% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 59.9% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 59.9% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 14.8% |
| Comporium, Inc. | Comporium, Inc. | 8.0% |
| Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 7.7% |
| WideOpenWest Finance, LLC | WideOpenWest Finance, LLC | 5.7% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 4.5% |
| CarolinaConnect Cooperative, Inc. | CarolinaConnect Cooperative, Inc. | 4.3% |
| West Carolina Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | West Carolina Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 4.1% |
| Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) | Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) | 3.5% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 3.5% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 3.1% |
| Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | 3.0% |
| Home Telephone Company, Inc. (SC) | Home Telephone Company, Inc. (SC) | 2.9% |
| Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | 2.4% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 2.1% |
| TruVista Communications, Inc. | TruVista Communications, Inc. | 1.7% |
| Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 1.6% |
| Skyrunner, Inc. | Skyrunner, Inc. | 1.4% |
| Sandhill Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Sandhill Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 1.3% |
| Ripple Fiber, LLC | Ripple Fiber, LLC | 1.0% |
| Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.9% |
| Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 0.9% |
| Lynches River Communications, Inc. | Lynches River Communications, Inc. | 0.8% |
| Wilkes Telephone Membership Corporation | Wilkes Telephone Membership Corporation | 0.7% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 0.4% |
| County of Orangeburg | County of Orangeburg | 0.3% |
| Google LLC | Google LLC | 0.3% |
| ZiTEL LLC | ZiTEL LLC | 0.1% |
| Hotwire Communications, Ltd. | Hotwire Communications, Ltd. | 0.1% |
| NTInet Inc. | NTInet Inc. | 0.04% |
| IQ Fiber Intermediate Holdings, LLC | IQ Fiber Intermediate Holdings, LLC | 0.02% |
| Advanced Technology Group, LLC | Advanced Technology Group, LLC | 0.0% |
| Fiber Platform, LLC | Fiber Platform, LLC | 0.0% |
| Front Range Intermediate Holdings, Inc. | Front Range Intermediate Holdings, Inc. | 0.0% |
| Fusion Connect, Inc. | Fusion Connect, Inc. | 0.0% |
| MTN Infrastructure TopCo, Inc. | MTN Infrastructure TopCo, Inc. | 0.0% |
| One Ring Networks, Inc. | One Ring Networks, Inc. | 0.0% |
| U.S. TelePacific Holdings Corp. | U.S. TelePacific Holdings Corp. | 0.0% |
| Velofi LLC | Velofi LLC | 0.0% |