Internet provider competition by state

The ranking measures the share of a state's homes and businesses where at least two different wired providers (fiber, cable or DSL) report service of 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload or faster. The District of Columbia leads at 94.3% and Alaska is last at 10.7%¹, in the FCC National Broadband Map as of June 30, 2026 (revision of November 10, 2026). The table adds, for each state, the shares of locations with exactly one such provider, with none, and with three or more.

A state's provider count is not your choice

Most answers to "how many internet providers are in my state" are a statewide total. The FCC data give one too: 201 companies report fiber, cable, DSL or fixed wireless service somewhere in Iowa, the highest of any state, against 6 in Hawaii, the fewest. Across the country the total is 1,949¹.

Those totals say little about a single address. Iowa, with the longest list, ranks 23rd highest on choice at the location. Hawaii, with the shortest, ranks 4th highest. Connecticut and Rhode Island each have 12¹ providers in total, and both are in the top three. A statewide list counts every company that serves any part of the state, however small its area; this ranking counts how many reach the same home.

Ohio shows why published counts for one state disagree. 106 providers report terrestrial service there, 82 of them over a wired network at 100/20 Mbps, yet the average Ohio location has 1.66¹ wired providers at that speed. Add the satellite companies, or use an older FCC release, and the statewide figure changes again.

The bottom of the table: one wired option, or none

Above Alaska, the lowest states are Montana (18.8%), New Mexico (28.3%), Arizona (33.1%), Nevada (34.9%) and West Virginia (35.2%¹). West Virginia is the one outside the West.

Low competition is not the same as no service. In Nevada only 6.5% of locations have no wired provider at 100/20 Mbps, but 58.5% have exactly one, 2nd highest share in the country after North Dakota's 59.3%. In Alaska the gap is coverage itself: 34.2% of locations have no wired provider at that speed, the highest share, followed by Wyoming at 25.1%¹.

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Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file cb_2025_us_state_20m. Darker states have larger gaps; DC is the dot. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.

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State	One wired choice
North Dakota	59.3%
Nevada	58.5%
Montana	57.4%
Alaska	55.0%
Arizona	54.2%
New Mexico	53.5%
South Dakota	53.1%
Washington	48.5%
Michigan	46.9%
West Virginia	46.7%
Wisconsin	45.9%
Minnesota	45.4%
Massachusetts	43.7%
California	43.2%
Vermont	42.7%
South Carolina	42.4%
Oregon	42.3%
Arkansas	42.3%
Mississippi	41.8%
Delaware	40.9%
North Carolina	39.5%
Maine	39.2%
Idaho	39.1%
Kentucky	38.0%
Alabama	37.5%
Louisiana	36.9%
New York	35.8%
Illinois	35.2%
New Jersey	34.8%
Pennsylvania	34.6%
Iowa	34.6%
Oklahoma	34.1%
Ohio	34.0%
Georgia	34.0%
Virginia	33.0%
Wyoming	32.7%
Colorado	32.4%
Indiana	32.4%
Maryland	32.0%
Tennessee	30.8%
Missouri	30.4%
Florida	30.2%
Utah	26.8%
New Hampshire	26.7%
Nebraska	25.4%
Kansas	25.2%
Texas	24.2%
Hawaii	19.0%
Connecticut	17.9%
Rhode Island	16.7%
District of Columbia	5.5%

Nationally, 42.4 million locations have a single wired provider at 100/20 Mbps and 9.0 million have none. 32 of the 50 states and DC have two or more wired providers at half their locations or more; only 4 reach three-quarters. The state median is 54.8%, and 23¹ states are above the US figure.

Three or more wired providers

Two providers is the usual ceiling. At 11.1% of US locations, three or more wired providers report 100/20 Mbps. The District of Columbia is the outlier at 64.5%, the highest share; the next are Connecticut (37.8%) and Utah (31.2%). Hawaii, 4th highest on the main ranking, has 0.0%¹ with three or more: almost every competitive location there has exactly two.

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District of Columbia

Connecticut

Utah

Hawaii

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Nevada

Montana

Alaska

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
District of Columbia	0.1%	5.5%	29.8%	64.5%
Connecticut	1.3%	17.9%	43.0%	37.8%
Utah	6.3%	26.8%	35.7%	31.2%
Hawaii	3.7%	19.0%	77.3%	0.0%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%
Nevada	6.5%	58.5%	34.6%	0.3%
Montana	23.9%	57.4%	16.3%	2.5%
Alaska	34.2%	55.0%	10.7%	0.0%

On average, a location in DC has 2.59 wired providers at 100/20 Mbps, one in Utah 2.26 and one in Connecticut 2.20; at the other end, Montana has 0.97 and Alaska 0.77¹.

What changed since 2022

When the FCC map first reported data, as of June 30, 2022, 36.7% of US locations had two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps. The share was 53.6%⁴ at the end of 2025 and 55.6% now, a rise of 18.9 percentage points. The share with a single provider fell from 49.3% to 36.6%, and three or more rose from 4.0%³ to 11.1%¹.

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

No wired choice7.8% −6.3 pts

One wired choice36.6% −12.6 pts

Two or more wired choices55.6% +18.9 pts

Three or more wired choices11.1% +7.1 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)
No wired choice	14.1%	8.2%	7.8%	−6.3 pts
One wired choice	49.3%	38.1%	36.6%	−12.6 pts
Two or more wired choices	36.7%	53.6%	55.6%	18.9 pts
Three or more wired choices	4.0%	9.9%	11.1%	7.1 pts

Maine moved most, from 11.4% to 52.9%. Hawaii (37.8% to 77.3%), Connecticut (47.7% to 80.8%) and Wyoming (8.9% to 42.2%) follow. Rhode Island barely changed on this measure (−3.1 percentage points), the lowest change, with 83.5% of its locations already at two or more in 2022; what grew there was a third provider, with three or more rising from 0.6%³ to 0.5%¹. These are changes in shares; the FCC's list of locations is revised with every release, so counts are not compared.

What this ranking counts, and what it leaves out

• Wired networks only. A provider counts if it reports fiber, cable or DSL service of at least 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload at the location. Fixed wireless, including 5G home internet, and satellite are excluded. Speeds are the providers' maximum advertised speeds, not measured ones.
• Each provider counts once per location. A company that reports both fiber and cable at the same address is one choice, not two.
• Locations, not households. The FCC counts broadband serviceable locations: a house, an apartment building or a small business is one location each.
• Reported, not guaranteed. "Available" means the provider says it can install within ten business days. Anyone can challenge a listing on the FCC National Broadband Map, which is also where to check an address.
• No prices. The FCC data contain none, so this page says nothing about what more choice costs or saves. City-level choice is on the competition ranking for large cities; our article on why coverage numbers disagree covers the other ways sites count.