Midco availability: the largest wired network in the Dakotas

Midco's five states

As of June 30, 2026 (FCC file revision of November 10, 2026), Midco reports service at 967,189¹ broadband serviceable locations. A location is any place that could take a connection: a house, an apartment building, a farm, a small business. It is not a household and not a customer. A location counts as served when Midco tells the FCC it could connect it with a standard installation within ten business days.

Those locations sit in 5 neighboring states. By count, Minnesota comes first with 485,699, but that is only 22.8% of Minnesota's locations. The two Dakotas are where Midco reaches a majority of locations: 62.6% of North Dakota's locations (205,081) and 56.4% of South Dakota's (221,920). In Kansas it reports 44,840 locations (3.8% of the state) and in Wisconsin 9,649 (0.4%¹).

The table also gives the change in each state since the first National Broadband Map of June 30, 2022, which shows where the network on file has grown.

First in both Dakotas, just ahead of the carriers

Leaving satellite aside, no company lists more Dakota locations than Midco. The closest are the mobile carriers selling fixed wireless home internet. In North Dakota, Midco reports service at 62.6% of locations, then Verizon at 55.2% and T-Mobile at 54.6%. In South Dakota the margin is thin: Midco at 56.4%, T-Mobile at 55.6%, Verizon at 51.6%. The nearest wired provider by reach is CenturyLink, at 33.5% of North Dakota and 42.7% of South Dakota, mostly over copper DSL: it offers 100/20 Mbps at only 2.2% and 1.7%¹.

Reach and speed tell different stories here. The carriers' wide footprints reach 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload at far fewer locations: 23.0% of North Dakota for Verizon, against 61.9% for Midco. In South Dakota, Midco files 100/20 Mbps at 56.4% of locations, Verizon at 21.9% and Bluepeak, a cable and fiber network, at 28.9%¹.

Midco's coverage sits inside states whose wired networks changed a lot since 2022. Counting every provider, fiber reached 51.8% of North Dakota's locations in June 2022 and 73.1% in June 2026; in South Dakota it went from 38.9%³ to 61.8%. Most of that fiber is filed by companies other than Midco. Midco reports fiber at 6.7% of North Dakota's locations and 7.8% of South Dakota's; SRT alone reports fiber at 9.5%¹ of North Dakota's.

Cable first, then fiber and fixed wireless

Midco's filing lists three technologies. Cable, over the coaxial lines of its cable television network, is the largest at 525,984 locations, every one of them filed at 100/20 Mbps or more, with a fastest advertised download of 2 Gbps. Fiber to the premises is reported at 126,622 locations, with downloads advertised up to 5 Gbps. Licensed fixed wireless is reported at 314,583¹ locations.

Fiber126,622

Cable525,984

Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home)314,583

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Broadband serviceable locations in the 50 states and DC where Midco 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	126,622	126,622	5,000
Cable	525,984	525,984	2,000
Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home)	314,583	311,804	100

The fixed wireless layer has a ceiling the wired networks do not. Its fastest advertised download is 100 Mbps, and 311,804 of its locations are filed at 100/20 Mbps, so none of them is filed above the FCC's 100 Mbps download benchmark. Fixed wireless explains why Midco's North Dakota share at 100/20 (61.9%) is a little below its total North Dakota share (62.6%¹). A location can appear under more than one technology, so the three counts add up to more than the total.

All speeds on this page are the maximum Midco advertises for a location, as filed with the FCC. They are not measurements of what a connection delivers.

Growth since 2022, mostly in Minnesota

Between June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2026, Midco's reported footprint grew by 284,631³ locations. The state table shows where: Minnesota's count roughly doubled, while North Dakota, South Dakota and Kansas grew modestly. Wisconsin went from a small presence to a larger one, most of it fiber.

Fiber accounts for a large part of the change. Midco's fiber footprint grew by 103,785³ locations over the four years, so most of the fiber it reports today is new since the first map. The most recent six months were quieter: between December 31, 2025 and June 30, 2026, the total changed by +2,157 and fiber by +4,815⁴.

Part of any provider's growth comes from the FCC's own list of locations, which is rebuilt for each release. Across the country that list grew by 3,495,329¹ locations between June 2022 and June 2026, through new construction and corrections. The FCC data record what Midco filed, not why a count changed.

Fargo and Sioux Falls: two kinds of competition

Midco reports service at 100.0% of locations in Fargo and 99.4%¹ in Sioux Falls, the two cities of 100,000 or more where it covers nearly every location. The competition around it is different in each.

In Fargo, two cable networks overlap. Sparklight reports cable or fiber at 98.7% of the city's locations, so almost every address has two wired providers at 100/20 Mbps: 93.8% have two or more, and Midco is the only one at just 0.8%. Fiber is less common. Counting every provider, it reaches 22.6% of Fargo's locations, the 20th lowest share among the 343 largest US cities, split among several companies, Midco at 6.3%¹.

Sioux Falls is the reverse: fewer wired rivals, more fiber. Bluepeak reports service at 69.5% of locations and fiber at 40.6%, more than Midco's own fiber share (26.6%). The share of the city's locations with two or more wired providers at 100/20 rose from 33.5%³ in June 2022 to 67.1% in June 2026. At the remaining 32.5% with a single wired provider, that provider is almost always Midco: it is the only one at 32.3%¹ of the city's locations.

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Sioux Falls

Fargo

South Dakota

North Dakota

United States

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
Sioux Falls	0.4%	32.5%	63.8%	3.3%
Fargo	0.3%	5.9%	77.1%	16.7%
South Dakota	5.6%	53.1%	39.7%	1.6%
North Dakota	0.7%	59.3%	37.1%	2.9%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

The Sioux Falls fiber figure moved in both directions between releases. Counting every provider, fiber reached 7.1%³ of the city's locations in June 2022, 65.7%⁴ in December 2025 and 55.1%¹ in June 2026. The FCC data show the change in filings, not its cause; anyone comparing Sioux Falls fiber figures from different sources should check which release each one uses.

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

Fiber available55.1% +48.1 pts

Two or more fiber networks19.5% +19.5 pts

One wired choice32.5% −33.6 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	7.1%	65.7%	55.1%	48.1 pts
Two or more fiber networks	0.0%	15.0%	19.5%	19.5 pts
One wired choice	66.1%	36.1%	32.5%	−33.6 pts

Where Midco is the only wired line at 100/20

At 239,849¹ locations, nearly a quarter of its footprint, Midco is the only wired provider reporting 100/20 Mbps. Fixed wireless from the mobile carriers and satellite may still be listed at those places, but no other company files cable or fiber at that speed.

As a share of each state, the figure is highest in the Dakotas: Midco is the only wired 100/20 provider at 16.9% of all North Dakota locations and 15.1% of South Dakota's. In Minnesota it is 5.2%¹ of the state, a lower share of a much larger state, which makes Minnesota the largest single source of these locations by count. Sioux Falls accounts for a sizable part of the South Dakota figure, while in Fargo, with its second cable network, the sole-provider share is close to zero.

Kansas and the cities table

Outside its three core states, Midco's footprint is a set of smaller pieces. In Kansas it reports 44,840 locations, including 8.9% of Kansas City, Kansas, where Spectrum and Google Fiber report service more widely and Midco is the only wired 100/20 provider at 0.6%¹ of locations. The table ranks the large cities where Midco reaches the most locations.

Most of Midco's network lies in smaller cities, towns and rural areas below the 100,000-resident line, which is why so few large cities appear in the table. For any of those places, the FCC map lists Midco's filing, address by address. The FCC data carry no prices or plan details; Midco publishes those on its broadband facts labels.