Washington
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 3,682,084
Satellite is doing 6.0% of the work here
The headline says 99.99278% served, but only 94.0% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 222,121 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 | 99.99278% | 3,681,818 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 94.0% | 3,459,697 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 6.0% | 222,121 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 99.9999728% | 3,682,083 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 99.9999728% | 3,682,083 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 99.9999457% | 3,682,082 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.99278% | 3,681,818 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.99191% | 3,681,786 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 67.4% | 2,482,411 |
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 11 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 (96)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 100.0% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 99.97% |
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 99.97% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 72.4% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 67.5% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 52.3% |
| Lumen Technologies, Inc. | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | 50.2% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 47.0% |
| Northwest Fiber, LLC | Northwest Fiber, LLC | 22.8% |
| Radiate Holdings, LP | Radiate Holdings, LP | 12.4% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 8.6% |
| Concept Communications, LLC | Concept Communications, LLC | 6.8% |
| PocketiNet Communications Inc. | PocketiNet Communications Inc. | 6.4% |
| Wired or Wireless, Inc. | Wired or Wireless, Inc. | 5.9% |
| Palisade America's Investment LLC | Palisade America's Investment LLC | 3.9% |
| Declaration Networks Group, Inc. | Declaration Networks Group, Inc. | 3.9% |
| Advanced Internet | Advanced Internet | 3.3% |
| xyTel LLC | xyTel LLC | 3.2% |
| Gigabeam Internet, LLC | Gigabeam Internet, LLC | 2.9% |
| Wi-Fiber, Inc. | Wi-Fiber, Inc. | 2.2% |
| Newmax, LLC | Newmax, LLC | 2.0% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 1.5% |
| Native Network, Inc. | Native Network, Inc. | 1.5% |
| Public Utility District of Grant County, Washington | Public Utility District of Grant County, Washington | 1.1% |
| PUD No. 1 of Chelan County | PUD No. 1 of Chelan County | 1.0% |
| Cyberdyne Networks, Inc. | Cyberdyne Networks, Inc. | 1.0% |
| Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | Mega Broadband Investments Holdings, LLC | 0.9% |
| Washington Broadband, Inc. | Washington Broadband, Inc. | 0.9% |
| First Step Internet, LLC | First Step Internet, LLC | 0.9% |
| NCI Datacom | NCI Datacom | 0.8% |
| Google LLC | Google LLC | 0.7% |
| Columbia Energy LLC | Columbia Energy LLC | 0.7% |
| Hawk Networks, Inc. | Hawk Networks, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Public Utility District No. 1 of Douglas County | Public Utility District No. 1 of Douglas County | 0.5% |
| 360 Communications, LLC (OR & WA) | 360 Communications, LLC (OR & WA) | 0.5% |
| Inland Cellular Telephone Company | Inland Cellular Telephone Company | 0.4% |
| Nikola Engineering, Inc. | Nikola Engineering, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Abound Ventures, Inc. | Abound Ventures, Inc. | 0.4% |
| RJB Telecommunications Corp. | RJB Telecommunications Corp. | 0.4% |
| Okanogan County PUD No. 1 | Okanogan County PUD No. 1 | 0.4% |
| Elevate Technology Group | Elevate Technology Group | 0.3% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 0.3% |
| Coast Communications Co. Inc. | Coast Communications Co. Inc. | 0.2% |
| CresComm WiFi, LLC | CresComm WiFi, LLC | 0.2% |
| Knightcom, Inc. | Knightcom, Inc. | 0.2% |
| Mason County Public Utility District No. 3 | Mason County Public Utility District No. 3 | 0.2% |
| Scatter Creek Ltd. | Scatter Creek Ltd. | 0.2% |
| Rebus Communications, LLC | Rebus Communications, LLC | 0.2% |
| Island Networks, LLC | Island Networks, LLC | 0.2% |
| Western Elite Incorporated Services | Western Elite Incorporated Services | 0.2% |