Virginia
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 4,083,985
Satellite is doing 6.1% of the work here
The headline says 99.9917% served, but only 93.9% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 247,221 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 | 99.9917% | 4,083,646 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 93.9% | 3,836,425 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 6.1% | 247,221 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 99.9999265% | 4,083,982 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 99.9999265% | 4,083,982 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 99.9999265% | 4,083,982 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.9917% | 4,083,646 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.9904% | 4,083,593 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 54.8% | 2,236,215 |
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 8 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 (80)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 100.0% |
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 99.99% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 99.9% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 67.8% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 66.8% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 46.6% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 46.3% |
| Cox Communications, Inc. | Cox Communications, Inc. | 29.9% |
| Shenandoah Telecommunications Company | Shenandoah Telecommunications Company | 9.5% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 8.9% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 3.3% |
| Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | 3.1% |
| Starry, Inc. | Starry, Inc. | 2.4% |
| Virginia Everywhere, LLC | Virginia Everywhere, LLC | 2.2% |
| Central Virginia Electric Cooperative | Central Virginia Electric Cooperative | 1.9% |
| Virginia Broadband, LLC | Virginia Broadband, LLC | 1.6% |
| Metronet Holdings, LLC | Metronet Holdings, LLC | 1.5% |
| Wilkes Telephone Membership Corporation | Wilkes Telephone Membership Corporation | 1.4% |
| Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | 1.3% |
| MGW Communications, Inc. | MGW Communications, Inc. | 0.8% |
| Ting Fiber, Inc. | Ting Fiber, Inc. | 0.7% |
| Scott County Telephone Cooperative | Scott County Telephone Cooperative | 0.7% |
| Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority | Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority | 0.6% |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 0.6% |
| ZiTEL LLC | ZiTEL LLC | 0.6% |
| Declaration Networks Group, Inc. | Declaration Networks Group, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Citizens Telephone Cooperative (VA) | Citizens Telephone Cooperative (VA) | 0.4% |
| Fastlink Communications Inc. | Fastlink Communications Inc. | 0.4% |
| WVVA.net Inc. | WVVA.net Inc. | 0.4% |
| Prince George Electric Cooperative | Prince George Electric Cooperative | 0.3% |
| Orange County Broadband Authority | Orange County Broadband Authority | 0.3% |
| BARC Electric Cooperative | BARC Electric Cooperative | 0.3% |
| iWiSP LLC | iWiSP LLC | 0.3% |
| Radiate Holdings, LP | Radiate Holdings, LP | 0.2% |
| Kinex Telecom, Inc. | Kinex Telecom, Inc. | 0.2% |
| Smyth Technology Group Inc. | Smyth Technology Group Inc. | 0.2% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 0.2% |
| Pocomoke Holdings | Pocomoke Holdings | 0.2% |
| Zito West Holding, LLC | Zito West Holding, LLC | 0.2% |
| Optimum Communications | Optimum Communications | 0.1% |
| Pembroke Telephone Cooperative | Pembroke Telephone Cooperative | 0.1% |
| Nelson County Cablevision Corp. | Nelson County Cablevision Corp. | 0.1% |
| SML Wireless, Inc. | SML Wireless, Inc. | 0.1% |
| iGo Technology, Inc. | iGo Technology, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Gearheart Communications | Gearheart Communications | 0.1% |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Cooperative | Craig-Botetourt Electric Cooperative | 0.04% |
| High Mountain Farm, LLC | High Mountain Farm, LLC | 0.04% |
| Highland Telephone Cooperative (VA) | Highland Telephone Cooperative (VA) | 0.03% |
| Hillcom Inc. | Hillcom Inc. | 0.03% |
| KGI Communications LLC | KGI Communications LLC | 0.03% |