Tennessee
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 3,526,181
Satellite is doing 2.3% of the work here
The headline says 99.99887% served, but only 97.7% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 80,538 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 | 99.99887% | 3,526,141 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 97.7% | 3,445,603 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 2.3% | 80,538 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 3,526,181 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 3,526,181 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 3,526,181 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.99887% | 3,526,141 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.99858% | 3,526,131 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 86.1% | 3,037,799 |
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 2 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 (99)
| 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% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 71.9% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 71.6% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 58.9% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 55.4% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 28.0% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 6.8% |
| Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, Tennessee | Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, Tennessee | 5.1% |
| City of Knoxville, TN | City of Knoxville, TN | 5.0% |
| MTE Holdings, LLC | MTE Holdings, LLC | 4.2% |
| Google LLC | Google LLC | 3.5% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 3.5% |
| Cumberland Connect, LLC | Cumberland Connect, LLC | 2.8% |
| CDE Lightband | CDE Lightband | 2.7% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 2.4% |
| Aeneas Communications, LLC | Aeneas Communications, LLC | 2.3% |
| Ben Lomand Rural Telephone Coop., Inc. | Ben Lomand Rural Telephone Coop., Inc. | 2.1% |
| Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corporation | Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corporation | 2.0% |
| WideOpenWest Finance, LLC | WideOpenWest Finance, LLC | 2.0% |
| Johnson City Energy Authority | Johnson City Energy Authority | 1.8% |
| Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | 1.4% |
| Foursight Communications LLC | Foursight Communications LLC | 1.3% |
| E. Ritter Communications Holdings, Inc. | E. Ritter Communications Holdings, Inc. | 1.2% |
| Lenoir City Utility Board | Lenoir City Utility Board | 1.2% |
| Jackson Energy Authority | Jackson Energy Authority | 1.1% |
| Ting Fiber, Inc. | Ting Fiber, Inc. | 1.1% |
| Gibson Electric Membership Corporation | Gibson Electric Membership Corporation | 1.0% |
| Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative | Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative | 1.0% |
| DeKalb Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | DeKalb Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.9% |
| City of Cleveland, Indiana | City of Cleveland, Indiana | 0.9% |
| Bristol Tennessee Essential Services | Bristol Tennessee Essential Services | 0.9% |
| Holston Electric Cooperative | Holston Electric Cooperative | 0.9% |
| West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative Corp. Inc. | West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative Corp. Inc. | 0.7% |
| Highland Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (KY & TN) | Highland Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (KY & TN) | 0.7% |
| Scott County Telephone Cooperative | Scott County Telephone Cooperative | 0.7% |
| Columbia Power and Water Systems | Columbia Power and Water Systems | 0.7% |
| Telephone Electronics Corporation | Telephone Electronics Corporation | 0.7% |
| North Central Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | North Central Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Newport Utilities | Newport Utilities | 0.6% |
| City of Dickson, TN | City of Dickson, TN | 0.6% |
| City of Lexington, Tennessee | City of Lexington, Tennessee | 0.5% |
| Morristown Utility System | Morristown Utility System | 0.5% |
| Skyline Telephone Membership Corporation | Skyline Telephone Membership Corporation | 0.5% |
| Fayetteville Public Utilities | Fayetteville Public Utilities | 0.4% |
| Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative Inc. | Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative Inc. | 0.4% |
| SVE Connect, LLC | SVE Connect, LLC | 0.4% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | 0.4% |