Wisconsin
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 3,151,537
Satellite is doing 7.1% of the work here
The headline says 99.99667% served, but only 92.9% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 225,080 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 | 99.99667% | 3,151,432 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 92.9% | 2,926,352 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 7.1% | 225,080 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 3,151,537 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 3,151,537 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 100.0% | 3,151,537 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.99667% | 3,151,432 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.99429% | 3,151,357 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 52.7% | 1,662,346 |
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 9 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 (97)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 100.0% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 99.99% |
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 99.99% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 74.5% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 66.2% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 54.7% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 52.9% |
| Hilbert Communications LLC | Hilbert Communications LLC | 25.0% |
| Bertram Communications LLC | Bertram Communications LLC | 22.0% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 16.2% |
| Connect Holding II LLC | Connect Holding II LLC | 10.8% |
| Frontier Communications Corporation | Frontier Communications Corporation | 8.7% |
| ResTech Services, LLC | ResTech Services, LLC | 8.5% |
| Northeast Communications of Wisconsin, Inc. | Northeast Communications of Wisconsin, Inc. | 3.1% |
| PCs for People | PCs for People | 2.3% |
| Lumen Technologies, Inc. | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | 2.0% |
| Country Wireless, LLC | Country Wireless, LLC | 1.9% |
| UpNet WI, LLC | UpNet WI, LLC | 1.4% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 1.2% |
| American Heartland Fiber Networks LLC | American Heartland Fiber Networks LLC | 1.2% |
| Wood County Telephone Company | Wood County Telephone Company | 1.0% |
| Mediacom Communications Corp. | Mediacom Communications Corp. | 1.0% |
| Chequamegon Communications Cooperative, Inc. | Chequamegon Communications Cooperative, Inc. | 0.9% |
| Chibardun Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Chibardun Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.8% |
| Network Professionals, Inc. | Network Professionals, Inc. | 0.8% |
| Netwurx, LLC | Netwurx, LLC | 0.8% |
| Amery Telcom, Inc. | Amery Telcom, Inc. | 0.8% |
| JAB Wireless, Inc. | JAB Wireless, Inc. | 0.7% |
| Comelec Services, Inc. | Comelec Services, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Edge Broadband LLC | Edge Broadband LLC | 0.6% |
| Amherst Telephone Company | Amherst Telephone Company | 0.6% |
| Vernon Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Vernon Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.6% |
| Tri-County Communications Cooperative, Inc. | Tri-County Communications Cooperative, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Metronet Holdings, LLC | Metronet Holdings, LLC | 0.5% |
| Reedsburg Utility Commission | Reedsburg Utility Commission | 0.5% |
| Marquette-Adams Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Marquette-Adams Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.5% |
| West Wisconsin Telcom Cooperative, Inc. | West Wisconsin Telcom Cooperative, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Baldwin Telecom, Inc. | Baldwin Telecom, Inc. | 0.5% |
| Lemonweir Valley Telephone Company | Lemonweir Valley Telephone Company | 0.5% |
| Acrospire Networks, LLC | Acrospire Networks, LLC | 0.4% |
| Mount Horeb Telephone Company | Mount Horeb Telephone Company | 0.4% |
| Lakeland Communications, Inc. | Lakeland Communications, Inc. | 0.4% |
| AirFiber, Inc. | AirFiber, Inc. | 0.4% |
| Midcontinent Communications | Midcontinent Communications | 0.4% |
| Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services | Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services | 0.3% |
| Siren Telephone Company, Inc. | Siren Telephone Company, Inc. | 0.3% |
| Bayfield Wireless | Bayfield Wireless | 0.3% |
| Hoyos Consulting, LLC | Hoyos Consulting, LLC | 0.3% |
| Wittenberg Telephone Company | Wittenberg Telephone Company | 0.3% |
| Citizens Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (WI) | Citizens Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (WI) | 0.3% |