99.99621%Served at 100/20
96.7%Ground infrastructure
64.1%Fiber available
78.0%Gigabit available

Texas

State 48 FCC data as of 2025-12-31

Total broadband serviceable units: 13,947,589

Satellite is doing 3.3% of the work here

The headline says 99.99621% served, but only 96.7% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 453,668 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

100.0% Served at 100/20 Underserved Unserved

Shares of all broadband serviceable units in the total partition, residential class.

Headline versus ground truth

Any technology 100.0% Ground infrastructure 96.7% Satellite only 3.3%
Coverage at the benchmark by lens
LensShareUnits
Any technology, including satellite99.99621%13,947,060
Ground infrastructure only96.7%13,493,392
Satellite is the only option at the benchmark3.3%453,668

Coverage by speed tier

0.2/0.2 Mbps 100.0% 10/1 Mbps 100.0% 25/3 Mbps 100.0% 100/20 Mbps 100.0% 250/25 Mbps 100.0% 1000/100 Mbps 78.0%
Cumulative coverage by speed tier
TierShareEstimated units
0.2/0.2 Mbps 99.9999928% 13,947,588
10/1 Mbps 99.9999928% 13,947,588
25/3 Mbps 99.9999928% 13,947,588
100/20 Mbps 99.99621% 13,947,060
250/25 Mbps 99.99586% 13,947,011
1000/100 Mbps 78.0% 10,879,659

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

Fiber 64.1% Cable 79.3% Gigabit (1000/100) 78.0%

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

NGSO Satellite 100.0% Cable 79.3% Fiber 64.1% Licensed Fixed Wireless 60.1% Unlicensed Fixed Wireless 18.8% Copper 4.0% GSO Satellite 0.0% Other 0.0%

How this compares

Ranked 6 of 15 within Nation US on any terrestrial coverage at the benchmark.

median 96.3% lowest 21.9% highest 99.2%

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 (222)

Providers reporting service in this area
ProviderHolding companyResidential 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. 63.7%
T-Mobile USA, Inc. T-Mobile USA, Inc. 62.9%
Verizon Communications Inc. Verizon Communications Inc. 60.7%
Charter Communications Charter Communications 48.8%
Comcast Corporation Comcast Corporation 21.8%
AMG Technology Investment Group LLC AMG Technology Investment Group LLC 15.0%
JAB Wireless, Inc. JAB Wireless, Inc. 12.4%
Optimum Communications Optimum Communications 10.4%
Frontier Communications Corporation Frontier Communications Corporation 7.2%
Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (TX) Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (TX) 6.7%
Radiate Holdings, LP Radiate Holdings, LP 5.1%
Metronet Holdings, LLC Metronet Holdings, LLC 4.0%
Google LLC Google LLC 3.8%
Cable One, Inc. Cable One, Inc. 3.1%
Ezee Fiber Texas, LLC Ezee Fiber Texas, LLC 2.8%
Connect Holding II LLC Connect Holding II LLC 2.7%
Uniti Group Inc. Uniti Group Inc. 2.7%
PCC Holdings, Inc. PCC Holdings, Inc. 2.3%
Wireless Internet Corporation Wireless Internet Corporation 2.0%
Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. 2.0%
Alamo Broadband Inc. Alamo Broadband Inc. 1.9%
Stratosnet Technologies, Inc. Stratosnet Technologies, Inc. 1.9%
RTA of America RTA of America 1.7%
Gtek Communications Gtek Communications 1.7%
ElektraFi LLC ElektraFi LLC 1.7%
Fidium Holdings, LLC Fidium Holdings, LLC 1.6%
Tachus LLC Tachus LLC 1.4%
Plains Internet, LLC Plains Internet, LLC 1.2%
Innovative Financial Technologies LLC Innovative Financial Technologies LLC 1.2%
Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC 1.2%
Electronic Corporate Pages, Inc. Electronic Corporate Pages, Inc. 1.2%
Generate-Ubiquity Holdings, LLC Generate-Ubiquity Holdings, LLC 1.2%
Peoples Telephone Cooperative Peoples Telephone Cooperative 1.2%
Telespan, LLC Telespan, LLC 0.9%
Chaparral Holding Corporation Chaparral Holding Corporation 0.9%
Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC 0.9%
Element8 Technology Investment Group Inc. Element8 Technology Investment Group Inc. 0.8%
SOS Communications LLC SOS Communications LLC 0.8%
BSX Holdings, LLC BSX Holdings, LLC 0.8%
Legacy ISP, LLC Legacy ISP, LLC 0.8%
Innercity Fibernet LLC Innercity Fibernet LLC 0.7%
Net Ops Communications, LLC Net Ops Communications, LLC 0.7%
TISD, Inc. TISD, Inc. 0.7%
Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative, Inc. Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 0.7%
3 Rooms Communications LLC 3 Rooms Communications LLC 0.7%
Wi-Fiber, Inc. Wi-Fiber, Inc. 0.7%
VGI Technology, Inc. VGI Technology, Inc. 0.7%

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