Mediacom availability: Iowa first, then cable towns across the Midwest and South

Is Mediacom available in your state?

Mediacom files with the FCC as Mediacom Communications Corp., under the brand names Mediacom Xtream and Mediacom Bolt. As of June 30, 2026 (FCC revision of November 10, 2026), it reports service at 2,713,187¹ broadband serviceable locations. The FCC counts places that could take a connection (a single house, an apartment building, a shop), not households or subscribers, and a location counts as served when the company says it could install service there within ten business days.

Iowa is the center of the map. Mediacom reports service at 798,152 Iowa locations, 58.5% of the state, and Iowa alone accounts for more of its footprint than any two other states combined. Nowhere else does it reach even a sixth of a state. The next highest shares are in Delaware (14.7%), Alabama (10.7%), Minnesota (10.2%), Illinois (9.2%) and Missouri (8.5%¹).

By count, the order changes. Illinois (379,489 locations), Georgia (243,246) and Alabama (235,027) follow Iowa. Florida (124,947), California (72,828) and Arizona (69,551) hold sizable Mediacom counts that are only 1.6%, 0.7% and 2.5% of those states. At the bottom of the list, Ohio (2,664), Michigan (2,585) and Virginia (382¹) are small fragments.

The table lists all 22¹ states with Mediacom's technologies, its fiber locations and the change since the first National Broadband Map of June 30, 2022.

A cable network with a thin fiber and wireless layer

Mediacom reports cable at 2,585,906 locations, 2.2% of all US locations. That is the fifth-largest cable footprint in the country, after Xfinity, Spectrum, Cox and Optimum. Its cable tier is close to uniform: 2,582,243 of those locations are filed at 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload or more, and the fastest advertised cable download is 5 Gbps¹.

Fiber91,074

Cable2,585,906

Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home)96,651

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Broadband serviceable locations in the 50 states and DC where Mediacom reports each technology, as of June 30, 2026. A location reached by two technologies counts in both.

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Technology	Locations	At 100/20 Mbps or more	Fastest advertised download (Mbps)
Fiber	91,074	91,074	5,000
Cable	2,585,906	2,582,243	5,000
Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home)	96,651	58,215	100

Two smaller layers sit on top. Fiber to the premises is reported at 91,074 locations, every one of them at 100/20 Mbps or more, with the same 5 Gbps top tier. Licensed fixed wireless, a radio link from a tower using licensed spectrum, is reported at 96,651 locations with advertised downloads up to 100 Mbps; 58,215¹ of those reach 100/20. A location can be counted under more than one technology, so the three figures overlap.

All speeds here are the maximum each company advertises for a location, as reported to the FCC. They are not measurements of what a connection delivers.

Fiber that came and partly went in the filings

Mediacom's June 2022 filing listed no fiber at all, so every fiber location it reports today is new since the first map: +91,074³. The more recent movement runs the other way. Between December 31, 2025 and June 30, 2026, the fiber count changed by −59,763, while Mediacom's total footprint changed by +8,535⁴ over the same six months.

The FCC data record what a provider files, not why a filing changed. Locations dropped from the fiber column can reappear under cable or leave the filing altogether, and the National Broadband Map does not say which happened here. Anyone comparing Mediacom fiber figures from different sources should check which FCC release each one uses.

Iowa: more wired competition around Mediacom

Mediacom is the largest wired provider in Iowa. Only one provider reports more Iowa locations, the fixed wireless service of T-Mobile (67.3%, against 58.5% for Mediacom). Mediacom offers 100/20 Mbps at 58.4% of the state's locations. Other wired networks include CenturyLink (44.2%, most of it DSL that reaches 100/20 at only 1.6%) and Metronet, whose fiber reaches 21.4%¹.

What changed around Mediacom is the rest of Iowa's wired market. Counting every provider, fiber reached 44.5% of Iowa's locations in June 2022 and 77.5% in June 2026. The share of locations with only one wired provider at 100/20 Mbps fell from 53.4% to 34.6%, and the share with two or more rose from 29.2%³ to 55.8%. Iowa now has more wired providers than any other state, 186¹.

June 30, 2022December 31, 2025June 30, 2026

Fiber available77.5% +33.0 pts

One wired choice34.6% −18.8 pts

Two or more wired choices55.8% +26.7 pts

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2022; FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of December 31, 2025; FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Shares of broadband serviceable locations in each FCC release (latest revision of each); the small number is the change in percentage points since June 30, 2022. The FCC's count of locations is updated with each release, so shares are compared rather than counts.

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Measure	June 30, 2022	December 31, 2025	June 30, 2026	Change (points)
Fiber available	44.5%	76.0%	77.5%	33.0 pts
One wired choice	53.4%	34.5%	34.6%	−18.8 pts
Two or more wired choices	29.2%	56.2%	55.8%	26.7 pts

Mediacom is the only wired provider at 100/20 Mbps at 8.6%¹ of Iowa's locations, roughly one in seven of the Iowa locations it covers.

Large cities where Mediacom covers nearly every street

Mediacom's coverage in its largest cities is close to complete: 99.1% of locations in Des Moines, 98.4% in Springfield, Missouri, 98.0% in Davenport, 97.5% in Cedar Rapids and 90.0%¹ in Columbia, Missouri. Those are also cities where fiber from other companies has caught up.

Outside these few, Mediacom's share of a large city is small; most of its network lies outside cities of 100,000 or more.

In Des Moines, fiber from any provider reaches 93.6% of locations, and 74.0% have two or more separate fiber networks. Metronet (84.7%), AT&T and Google Fiber all report service there, and Mediacom is the only wired 100/20 provider at 5.9%. Davenport has nearly the same fiber share (94.3%), mostly Metronet, with Mediacom alone at 5.0%. In Springfield, where Brightspeed reports fiber at 91.4% of locations and AT&T at 45.4%, the fiber share is 93.0%, and Mediacom stands alone at only 6.0%¹.

Cedar Rapids is the exception among the Iowa cities. Fiber reaches 35.2% of locations, ImOn Communications reports fiber at 33.0%, and Mediacom is the only wired 100/20 provider at 20.3%¹, its highest sole-provider share among large cities.

In Columbus, Georgia, the pattern is different again: two cable networks overlap. WOW! reports cable at 85.6% of locations and Mediacom at 69.7%¹.

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Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Different wired providers (fiber, cable or DSL; FCC provider IDs) reporting 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up or more at the same location. Fixed wireless and satellite are not counted.

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Area	None	One	Two	Three or more
Des Moines	0.5%	6.4%	18.9%	74.2%
Davenport	0.6%	5.8%	69.3%	24.3%
Cedar Rapids	1.4%	21.0%	70.3%	7.2%
Springfield	0.8%	6.7%	42.1%	50.5%
Columbia	1.5%	6.5%	31.0%	61.1%
Columbus	2.9%	7.9%	29.9%	59.3%
Iowa	9.6%	34.6%	41.3%	14.6%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

The chart counts every company, Mediacom included. Because Mediacom covers most locations in each of these cities, the slice with a single wired provider is roughly where Mediacom has no wired rival at 100/20 Mbps.

Where Mediacom is the only wired choice

At 641,889¹ locations, more than a fifth of its footprint, Mediacom is the only wired provider reporting 100/20 Mbps. Those locations may still have 5G home internet or satellite, but no other company files a cable or fiber connection at that speed. Because the share is so low in its large cities, most of these locations lie outside them.

The share differs widely from state to state. In Delaware, Mediacom is the only wired 100/20 provider at 8.2% of all locations, more than half of the Delaware locations it covers. In Minnesota (3.4% of the state) and Alabama (3.3%) the figure is about a third of Mediacom's footprint there. In Missouri (1.2%), Illinois (1.6%) and Georgia (1.6%¹) it is much smaller.

Change since 2022

Between June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2026, Mediacom's reported footprint grew by 46,605³ locations. That figure mixes two things. The FCC rebuilds its national list of locations for each release, adding new homes and correcting old records, and that list grew by 3,495,329¹ in the same period; a provider's count can climb with it even where no cable was laid.

The state table above shows where the growth came from. Alabama, Georgia, Arizona and Delaware list more Mediacom locations than in 2022; Kentucky, Indiana, Florida and California list fewer. Iowa, the largest state, grew slightly.

Reading Mediacom's filing

Every figure on this page comes from Mediacom's own submissions to the FCC as of June 30, 2026. They describe where it says it can connect, not how many customers it has. The FCC data carry no prices or plan details; Mediacom publishes those on its broadband facts labels. A listing that looks wrong for a specific address can be challenged through the FCC map.