Sparklight availability: Idaho, Mississippi and smaller cable towns

Where Sparklight is available

As of June 30, 2026 (FCC revision of November 10, 2026), Sparklight reports service at 2,318,940¹ broadband serviceable locations: houses, apartment buildings and small businesses that could order a connection. "Available" means the provider told the FCC it could install service there within ten business days with a standard installation. Anyone can challenge a listing on the FCC map.

The footprint is a set of small and mid-size cities spread across the West, the Plains and the South, not a contiguous region. Counted by locations, its largest states are Idaho (435,467), Texas (351,227), Mississippi (244,716), Missouri (168,959) and Oklahoma (152,923). Counted by share of a state, the order changes. Idaho stands apart at 56.3%, followed by Mississippi (18.5%), North Dakota (13.7%), Oklahoma (8.8%) and New Mexico (7.2%). Texas is its second-largest state by count, yet Sparklight reaches only 3.4%¹ of Texas locations.

At the other end, the filing lists 2,896 locations in South Dakota, 6,707 in Oregon and 8,567¹ in Washington, each under one percent of the state.

Cable One files under one FCC provider ID with several brand names: Sparklight, Fidelity, Hargray and Cable America, along with the telephone companies Fidelity Telephone and Hargray Telephone. The FCC map may show any of these names at an address; this page counts them together.

A cable network with fiber in a few places

Cable carries almost all of the footprint. Sparklight reports cable at 2,086,782 locations, the seventh-largest cable footprint in the FCC data, between Astound and WOW!. Every one of those cable locations is filed at 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload or more (2,086,782). The fastest advertised cable tier is 2 Gbps, and it appears in Idaho; in Mississippi, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Alabama and South Carolina the fastest advertised tier is 1 Gbps¹.

Fiber251,778

Cable2,086,782

DSL (copper)65,013

Unlicensed fixed wireless6,286

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Broadband serviceable locations in the 50 states and DC where Sparklight 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	251,778	251,778	1,000
Cable	2,086,782	2,086,782	2,000
DSL (copper)	65,013	0	30
Unlicensed fixed wireless	6,286	0	100

Fiber to the premises is filed at 251,778 locations, all at 100/20 Mbps or more, with advertised downloads up to 1 Gbps. The state table further down shows where it is: Texas, South Carolina, Idaho and Georgia hold most of it, while Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Tennessee and Oregon have none. Measured against each state, the fiber is thin. It reaches 5.2% of Idaho's locations, 2.3% of South Carolina's and 0.1%¹ of Mississippi's.

Two small technologies complete the filing. DSL over copper telephone lines is reported at 65,013 locations in Missouri, South Carolina and Georgia, with downloads up to 30 Mbps and none at 100/20 Mbps. Unlicensed fixed wireless appears at 6,286 locations in Missouri and Georgia, up to 100 Mbps¹. A location can appear under more than one technology.

Change since 2022: fiber grew faster than the footprint

Between June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2026, Sparklight's reported footprint changed by +87,063 locations. Its fiber count changed by +119,144³, more than the whole footprint. Either some of the new fiber was filed at locations already in Sparklight's 2022 filing, or other locations left the filing, or both; the FCC files alone cannot tell these apart. In the six months since December 31, 2025, the footprint changed by +14,709 and the fiber count by +19,367⁴.

The table shows the direction in each state, along with each state's fiber count. Most states grew modestly. Indiana, Oklahoma, Louisiana and a few small states list fewer locations than in 2022, and Georgia and South Carolina grew the most relative to their size. Some of any change comes from the FCC's own list of locations, which added +3,495,329¹ nationwide over the same four years through new construction and corrected records.

Idaho: Sparklight's largest market

Idaho is the only state where Sparklight reaches more than one in five locations. It reports service at 435,467 of them, 56.3% of the state, all at 100/20 Mbps or more. Only one provider reports more Idaho locations, and it does so without a wire: Verizon (61.3%), with licensed fixed wireless. That makes Sparklight Idaho's largest wired network. The next, CenturyLink (49.4%), offers 100/20 Mbps at only 4.1%¹ of the state's locations.

The network is centered on the Treasure Valley around Boise. Sparklight reports service at 99.1% of locations in Boise, 99.2% in Meridian and 98.9% in Nampa. Statewide, it is the only wired provider offering 100/20 Mbps at 26.4%¹ of Idaho's locations.

From one wired choice to two: Treasure Valley and Rio Rancho

In June 2022 most homes and businesses in the Treasure Valley had a single wired connection at 100/20 Mbps. The share of locations with exactly one wired provider at that speed was 74.7% in Boise, 66.0% in Meridian and 76.1%³ in Nampa. By June 2026 it had fallen to 57.9%, 25.3% and 24.4%¹.

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

One wired choice25.3% −40.7 pts

Two or more wired choices74.2% +40.4 pts

Fiber available75.1% +45.2 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)
One wired choice	66.0%	34.9%	25.3%	−40.7 pts
Two or more wired choices	33.9%	64.5%	74.2%	40.4 pts
Fiber available	29.9%	63.8%	75.1%	45.2 pts

Over the same four years, fiber from several companies spread through the three cities. In Meridian, fiber from any provider rose from 29.9% of locations to 75.1%: Fatbeam reports fiber at 34.7%, AT&T at 25.6%, Sparklight itself at 19.5% and TDS at 12.6%. In Nampa, TDS reports fiber at 61.7% of locations and the city's fiber share went from 17.2% to 74.0%. Boise changed least of the three: its fiber share rose from 18.1%³ to 36.1%, mostly from AT&T (25.1%) and Fatbeam (7.0%), while Sparklight reports fiber at 1.3%¹ there.

Rio Rancho, New Mexico, shows the most complete shift. Sparklight covers 98.7% of the city, and in June 2022 94.5% of its locations had a single wired provider at 100/20 Mbps. Fiber from any provider went from 1.2%³ of locations to 97.0%, with Xfinity reporting fiber at 88.3%, and the single-wire share is down to 3.6%¹.

Boise57.9%

United States36.6%

Meridian25.3%

Nampa24.4%

Odessa7.7%

Fargo5.9%

Rio Rancho3.6%

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.

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Area	One wired choice
Boise	57.9%
United States	36.6%
Meridian	25.3%
Nampa	24.4%
Odessa	7.7%
Fargo	5.9%
Rio Rancho	3.6%

The chart counts every provider, not only Sparklight. Because Sparklight reports service at more than nine in ten locations in each of these cities, each bar is close to the share of the city where Sparklight is the only wired option at 100/20 Mbps.

Where Sparklight is the only wired choice

At 770,759¹ locations, about a third of its footprint, Sparklight is the only wired provider reporting 100/20 Mbps. Fixed wireless and satellite may be offered there, but no second cable or fiber line at that speed is filed.

Idaho holds the largest share: Sparklight is the only wired 100/20 provider at 26.4% of the state's locations and at 57.8% of Boise's, the highest figure among the large cities it serves. Elsewhere the figure is small even where Sparklight's coverage is wide. In Mississippi, where Sparklight reaches 18.5% of locations, it stands alone at 5.0%; C Spire, the largest provider in the state by locations, reports service at 93.0% of Mississippi's locations. In Fargo, Sparklight covers 98.7% and Midco 100.0%, so Sparklight is the sole wired option at only 5.0%. In Odessa, Texas, AT&T (89.1%) and Astound (84.4%) overlap most of Sparklight's area, and the figure is 6.7%¹.

Large cities in Sparklight's footprint

Among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more, only six are almost fully covered by Sparklight: the three Treasure Valley cities, Rio Rancho, Fargo and Odessa. In the others on its list, such as Pearland (6.0%) or Little Rock (0.3%¹), it reports service at only a small part of the city. Most of Sparklight's locations are in smaller cities, towns and rural areas outside this list.

These figures are availability that Cable One reported to the FCC for June 30, 2026, not subscriber counts. They say nothing about prices or plans, which Sparklight must publish on its broadband facts labels, and a listing that is wrong can be challenged on the FCC map.