Bluepeak vs Midco
These two overlap in 10 metro areas and 54 towns and cities, so for a lot of people this is a real choice rather than a hypothetical one. The first question is not which is better. It is which of them can reach you.
Midco is Midcontinent Communications's consumer internet brand, so if you are comparing Midcontinent Communications this is the same network.
Bluepeak vs Midco at a glance
| Measure | Bluepeak | Midco |
|---|---|---|
| Main technology | Fiber | Cable |
| Residential locations on that technology | 249,737 | 529,137 |
| Single technology or mixed | Mixed | Mixed |
| Full coverage detail | Where Bluepeak is available | Where Midco is available |
We do not publish speeds or prices here. Both providers change them constantly and by market, and a stale number is worse than no number. Coverage is the part that is federally reported and verifiable.
Where you can get both
Metro areas where both Bluepeak and Midco report service, ranked by how well covered the less available of the two is because that is what decides whether you genuinely get a choice.
These percentages count each operator's whole reported network. 65.2% of what Bluepeak files with the FCC is fiber. 54.8% of what Midco files is cable. The FCC publishes that split nationally and never per metro, so a high number here means the operator reaches the metro, not that it reaches it on that technology.
| Metro area | Bluepeak | Midco |
|---|---|---|
| Vermillion, SD Micro Area | 76% | 76% |
| Spearfish, SD Micro Area | 64% | 71% |
| Rapid City, SD Metro Area | 63% | 81% |
| Yankton, SD Micro Area | 62% | 82% |
| Watertown, SD Micro Area | 57% | 78% |
| Worthington, MN Micro Area | 58% | 55% |
| Sioux Falls, SD Metro Area | 55% | 84% |
| Marshall, MN Micro Area | 49% | 100% |
| Grand Forks, ND-MN Metro Area | 38% | 85% |
| Sioux City, IA-NE-SD Metro Area | 4% | 5% |
Where only one of them reaches
Bluepeak reports service in 6 states and Midco in 5, and they share 3 of them. Overlap is the exception, not the rule, so if you are outside the table above this is the part that answers your question.
17 metro areas have Bluepeak and not Midco
- Enid, OK Metro Area 66% covered
- Laramie, WY Micro Area 62% covered
- Altus, OK Micro Area 58% covered
- Lawton, OK Metro Area 55% covered
- Stillwater, OK Micro Area 51% covered
- Casper, WY Metro Area 48% covered
- Cheyenne, WY Metro Area 48% covered
- Bartlesville, OK Micro Area 48% covered
32 metro areas have Midco and not Bluepeak
- Owatonna, MN Micro Area 100% covered
- Fairmont, MN Micro Area 100% covered
- Fargo, ND-MN Metro Area 99% covered
- Albert Lea, MN Micro Area 98% covered
- Austin, MN Micro Area 97% covered
- Bismarck, ND Metro Area 91% covered
- Lawrence, KS Metro Area 87% covered
- Mitchell, SD Micro Area 85% covered
States where only Bluepeak reports service: Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming. States where only Midco reports service: Kansas, Wisconsin.
Showing the eight best covered of each. Ranked by reported coverage within the metro, from the same FCC filing as the table above. Providers self report and overstate, so read these as a ceiling on where a company will sell to you, not a promise about your street.
Which should you pick?
Honestly, in most of the places above only one of them will actually reach your building, and that settles it. Where both do reach you, the useful question is the technology rather than the brand.
That is the case here: Bluepeak is mainly fiber and Midco is mainly cable. The practical difference is upload speed and consistency rather than headline download speed, we explain what that means here.
See which one reaches your address →
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