Studies
- How much broadband choice do Americans have? A count of how many companies can reach each home, across all 6,280,236 US census blocks. Reports a floor: at least 15.7% of homes have at most one wired option.
- Who can actually get gigabit internet in America? 69.1% of US homes can get 1 Gbps. Every state and 3,185 counties ranked, and the finding that speed and competition are close to unrelated.
Why these two disagree with each other, on purpose
The competition study reports a floor: providers overstate coverage, so every overstatement moves a home into the at-most-one-company group and none out of it. The gigabit study reports a ceiling: the same overstatement inflates how many homes look like they can get fast service. The biases run in opposite directions and both are stated on the page rather than buried.
They also count different things. One counts residential locations, meaning buildings. The other counts residential units, meaning homes inside them. An apartment block is one location and many units, so the two national totals differ by tens of millions and neither is wrong.
Using this work
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Data source: the FCC's Broadband Data Collection, filing period D25, published July 21, 2026.