West Virginia
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 996,362
Satellite is doing 16.2% of the work here
The headline says 99.9% served, but only 83.7% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 161,624 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 | 99.9% | 995,436 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 83.7% | 833,812 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 16.2% | 161,624 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 99.9999% | 996,361 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 99.999799% | 996,360 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 99.999799% | 996,360 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.9% | 995,436 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.9% | 995,425 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 49.3% | 491,699 |
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 14 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 (58)
| 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. | 99.7% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 51.6% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 43.3% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 38.9% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 32.2% |
| Optimum Communications | Optimum Communications | 29.2% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 29.0% |
| Shenandoah Telecommunications Company | Shenandoah Telecommunications Company | 7.9% |
| Micrologic, Inc. | Micrologic, Inc. | 6.2% |
| Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | Cogeco Cable Holdings II Inc. | 4.4% |
| Morgan Wireless LLC | Morgan Wireless LLC | 3.5% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 3.4% |
| Community Antenna Service, Inc. | Community Antenna Service, Inc. | 3.1% |
| Citynet, LLC | Citynet, LLC | 2.9% |
| Arx Technologies, LLC | Arx Technologies, LLC | 2.7% |
| Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | Armstrong Holdings, Inc. | 2.4% |
| Lynx WV, Inc. | Lynx WV, Inc. | 1.6% |
| Hardy Telecommunications, Inc. | Hardy Telecommunications, Inc. | 1.6% |
| Digital Connections, Inc. | Digital Connections, Inc. | 1.1% |
| Cincinnati Bell Inc. | Cincinnati Bell Inc. | 0.7% |
| WVVA.net Inc. | WVVA.net Inc. | 0.5% |
| Spruce Knob Seneca Rocks Telephone, Inc. | Spruce Knob Seneca Rocks Telephone, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Skypacket Networks Inc. | Skypacket Networks Inc. | 0.4% |
| JB-Nets, LLC | JB-Nets, LLC | 0.4% |
| Massillon Cable TV, Inc. | Massillon Cable TV, Inc. | 0.3% |
| TelAtlantic, Inc. | TelAtlantic, Inc. | 0.3% |
| Ampersand Technologies LLC | Ampersand Technologies LLC | 0.3% |
| Declaration Networks Group, Inc. | Declaration Networks Group, Inc. | 0.3% |
| Jefferson County Cable | Jefferson County Cable | 0.2% |
| Future Fiber FinCo, LLC | Future Fiber FinCo, LLC | 0.2% |
| Gearheart Communications | Gearheart Communications | 0.2% |
| Virginia Everywhere, LLC | Virginia Everywhere, LLC | 0.1% |
| Foothills Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. | Foothills Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Zito West Holding, LLC | Zito West Holding, LLC | 0.1% |
| New Era Broadband, LLC | New Era Broadband, LLC | 0.1% |
| A&A Communications LLC | A&A Communications LLC | 0.1% |
| Crystal Broadband Networks | Crystal Broadband Networks | 0.1% |
| Countrymen Communications Inc. | Countrymen Communications Inc. | 0.1% |
| QCOL, Inc. | QCOL, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC | 0.04% |
| Local2u LLC | Local2u LLC | 0.03% |
| Crowsnest Broadband LLC | Crowsnest Broadband LLC | 0.02% |
| MGW Communications, Inc. | MGW Communications, Inc. | 0.02% |
| One Ring Networks, Inc. | One Ring Networks, Inc. | 0.02% |
| Trive Capital Management LLC | Trive Capital Management LLC | 0.02% |
| Alpha Technologies Inc. | Alpha Technologies Inc. | 0.01% |
| UltraWISP, LLC | UltraWISP, LLC | 0.01% |
| Upward Broadband, LLC | Upward Broadband, LLC | 0.01% |