Communications research
US Broadband Market Explorer
Understand and track your broadband competition—where providers are expanding, how technology and speed positions are shifting, and which markets require action.
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National market overview
Provider-reported gigabit availability and national provider footprint
Reporting providers by technology
Provider-technology reports by FCC vintage; segments may overlap across technologies. Satellite is excluded.
National fixed competitor ranking
Estimated residential serviceable units by FCC provider ID; fixed broadband includes satellite
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Availability by speed threshold
Current share and comparable six-month change; terrestrial technologies
Market economics
Residential pricing benchmarks
FCC Urban Rate Survey — sampled undiscounted urban residential fixed broadband offers
Monthly rate distribution by download tier
Median and middle 50% of reported monthly rates; weighted average shown for context
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Geographic evidence
Explore the market
Move from the national view to a metro market, then inspect the census-block evidence behind it.
National availability overview
All terrestrial at 100/20 Mbps
Block-level evidence
Census-block competition
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The block surface shows overlap among all qualifying providers. The competitive set below narrows to visible blocks where the selected provider reports qualifying service.
Competitive set in view
Pan or zoom the map to rank providers in the visible Census blocks.
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A Census block is a geographic unit, not a household. FCC public BSL location IDs are aggregated to the block; Census internal points position blocks without exposing addresses.How to read this research
Methodology and limitations
This explorer organizes public, provider-reported evidence for market screening. Each measure should be read with its geography, technology, speed threshold and vintage.
Sources and freshness
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Pricing and comparisons
Urban Rate Survey benchmarks summarize sampled, undiscounted urban residential fixed-broadband offers. They provide national context—not local advertised prices, transaction prices or customer bills. Change values appear only when the API publishes a comparable prior period; otherwise the explorer marks them not comparable.
Geography and competition
State and metro measures aggregate qualifying reported locations. Block views group public location IDs to 2020 Census blocks and use Census internal points for display—not street-address or service-location coordinates. Market- or block-level provider presence does not prove that every address has that choice; same-block presence is not pairwise address-level overlap.
Metro areas follow the FCC’s published geography, which uses the March 2020 OMB Core Based Statistical Area delineation; the block layer uses the same vintage so metro figures reconcile with the FCC’s own. Metros defined only in later delineations are not shown. Block-level coverage spans the 392 Metropolitan Statistical Areas; Micropolitan areas are out of scope.
Availability and footprint
Availability is the share of FCC Broadband Serviceable Locations where providers report offering the selected technology and speed tier. Provider footprint and serviceable-unit estimates describe reported availability—not subscribers, adoption, revenue, delivered speed or service quality.
Fixed-wireless caveat: for Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Rhode Island the FCC source set is incomplete (licensed-by-rule fixed wireless is absent in all four; Connecticut also lacks unlicensed fixed wireless). Their fixed-wireless figures understate presence and are not comparable with other states.