TDS availability: fiber, cable and copper under one name

Wisconsin and Idaho first: where TDS reports service

In the National Broadband Map as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026), TDS lists 1,396,834 broadband serviceable locations: houses, apartment buildings and small businesses where it says it could connect service within ten business days of a request. They are spread over 29¹ states, but unevenly.

Wisconsin alone accounts for 407,291 of them, 17.7% of all locations in the state. Idaho is second by count (113,809) and by share (14.7%). After those two, no state passes a tenth of its locations: Montana (9.4%), New Mexico (9.1%), Utah (8.2%), New Hampshire (6.6%) and Oregon (6.5%) are next. In Tennessee, the third-largest state by count with 104,914 locations, TDS reaches 3.8% of the state. At the far end, the filing lists 2,749 locations in California and 3¹ in West Virginia.

Fiber, cable or copper: three answers to "is TDS available"

The same brand name covers three different networks, and the FCC data keep them apart:

• Fiber to the premises at 922,684 locations, all of them filed at 100/20 Mbps or more, with a fastest advertised download of 8 Gbps.
• Cable at 309,352 locations, also all at 100/20 Mbps or more, with a fastest advertised download of 1 Gbps.
• DSL over copper telephone lines at 214,143 locations, none of them at 100/20 Mbps; the fastest advertised download is 50 Mbps¹.

Fiber922,684

Cable309,352

DSL (copper)214,143

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Broadband serviceable locations in the 50 states and DC where TDS 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	922,684	922,684	8,000
Cable	309,352	309,352	1,000
DSL (copper)	214,143	0	50

A location can appear under more than one technology, so the three counts add up to more than the total. Every speed on this page is the maximum download the provider advertises.

The mix depends on the state. In Wisconsin, TDS reports fiber at 16.0% of all locations out of the 17.7% it reaches; in Idaho the two shares are almost the same (14.6% and 14.7%), and in Montana identical (9.4%). Oregon is the exception: TDS reaches 6.5% of the state's locations but reports fiber at only 2.0%¹. Cable appears only in the western states of Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, plus small parts of North Carolina and Arizona.

Bend and St. George: cable towns where TDS is the main wire

Two large cities show what the cable side of TDS looks like. In Bend, Oregon, TDS reports service at 100.0% of locations, the highest share in any city of 100,000 or more. Most of that is cable: TDS lists fiber at 21.3% of Bend's locations. In St. George, Utah, it reaches 99.4%, with fiber at 31.6%. Both cities have a fastest TDS tier of 1 Gbps, below the 8 Gbps¹ it lists in its fiber cities.

What sets these two cities apart is competition. In Bend, TDS is the only wired provider offering 100/20 Mbps at 72.0% of locations, the same as the city's total share with a single wired choice at that speed (72.0%). In St. George the figures are 41.5% and 41.7%. Wherever these two cities have exactly one wired option at 100/20 Mbps, that option is almost always TDS. Fixed wireless from Verizon is listed at 87.3% of Bend's locations; in St. George, InfoWest reports fiber and fixed wireless at 96.7%¹.

Bend72.0%

Billings54.4%

St. George41.7%

United States36.6%

Nampa24.4%

Green Bay21.9%

Spokane21.4%

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
Bend	72.0%
Billings	54.4%
St. George	41.7%
United States	36.6%
Nampa	24.4%
Green Bay	21.9%
Spokane	21.4%

Green Bay, Nampa, Spokane, Billings: fiber next to an established cable network

In the cities where TDS reports mostly fiber, the picture is reversed. It reaches 64.9% of locations in Green Bay, 61.7% in Nampa, 48.7% in Spokane and 37.9% in Billings, every one of them with fiber. In each city, a cable company already reports service almost everywhere: Spectrum at 96.4% of Green Bay, Sparklight at 98.9% of Nampa, Xfinity at 99.7% of Spokane. So TDS is rarely the only wired line here; its share as sole wired provider is 1.1% in Green Bay and 0.1%¹ in Nampa.

These cities also changed fast. Fiber from any provider reached 19.2% of Green Bay's locations in June 2022 and 74.4% in June 2026; in Nampa the share went from 17.2% to 74.0%, in Billings from 6.6%³ to 44.3%¹. TDS's own fiber now covers more of each of those cities than all providers' fiber did in 2022. The FCC data do not say how much of the city-wide change is TDS's, and a filing can change for reasons other than construction.

Elsewhere in its two largest states, TDS covers a smaller part of the main city. It reports 17.4% of Madison, 12.6% of Meridian and 4.0% of Boise. In Tennessee its 7,842 Nashville locations are 3.9%¹ of the city. Most of the TDS footprint lies outside cities of 100,000 or more.

Copper that stops at 50 Mbps

With 214,000¹ locations, TDS has the seventh-largest DSL footprint of any brand. None of those lines is filed at 100/20 Mbps, the threshold the federal BEAD program uses for a served location. Where a TDS DSL line is the only wired option, a location can count as unserved or underserved even though the company reports service there; whether a particular address has fiber or copper is visible on the FCC map, not in a brand-level count.

In the state table below, Montana is the only state where the filing lists fiber alone. In Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Arizona, most TDS locations are not fiber; compare the "Fiber locations" column with the total.

The last six months, and why there is no 2022 comparison

Between December 31, 2025 and June 30, 2026, TDS's reported footprint changed by +45,928 locations, while its fiber footprint changed by +71,233⁴. With fiber up by more than the total, the number of locations where TDS lists only copper or cable fell. These are differences between two filings: the FCC revises its location list with every release, and a provider can add or drop locations without building or removing a line.

The state table's change column reads "new" for every state. That is not because TDS started service everywhere after 2022. In the first map, as of June 30, 2022, the FCC lists this provider ID as "Telephone & Data Systems, incl. UScellular", one filing that also reported licensed fixed wireless and mobile coverage. Because that filing's name and scope differ from today's, this site does not attribute its June 2022 counts to TDS and makes no 2022 comparison for the brand. City-wide fiber shares, which do not depend on how a provider files, are compared above.

Where TDS is the only wired line at 100/20

At 219,139 locations, TDS is the only wired provider offering 100/20 Mbps. Oregon has the highest such share of any state: 5.3% of all its locations, Bend included. New Hampshire follows with 1.4%, Wisconsin with 1.0% and Maine with 0.8%. In Idaho, despite the large footprint, the figure is 0.2%¹: almost every Idaho location TDS lists also has another wired provider at 100/20 Mbps.

Reading a TDS listing

These figures are what TDS reports to the FCC as of June 30, 2026. A listed location is one where the company says it could install service within ten business days; it is not a subscriber count, and a listing that looks wrong can be challenged on the FCC National Broadband Map. The data contain no prices or plans. Those appear on the broadband facts label TDS must show at the point of sale.