Broadband Data Collection Shows Access to High-Speed Internet Services is Expanding!

Since June 2022, the FCC has been collecting service availability data from broadband providers, reviewing and validating those data, and publishing the updates to the National Broadband Map.  The latest Map was published this week.  With six Broadband Data Collections behind us, the Map continues to show steady increases in the number of locations where broadband coverage is reported as of December 2024:

• 110 million homes and small businesses (95 percent) have access to a terrestrial fixed service with speeds of 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload (100/20) or greater — nearly a million more locations than the last data collection in June 2024.
   
• Nearly 7 million additional locations gained access to fixed service with speeds of 1 Gbps download and 100 Mbps upload (1000/100) or greater in that same time.
   
• On the mobile side, 96 percent of homes and small businesses have access to 5G mobile service with speeds of at least 7/1 Mbps, and 92 percent have access to 5G with speeds of 35/3 Mbps or greater.

The list of broadband locations also continues to be refined and updated with each version of the Map.  There are currently 115.8 million locations shown on the map and the changes between each version are now consistently under 0.5%.

But it takes more than updated provider data to ensure that each version of the National Broadband Map provides an accurate picture of where broadband service is available in the United States and its Territories.  Consumers, state, local, and Tribal governments, broadband providers, and other stakeholders have all contributed to refining the data through our challenge processes.  More than 5 million availability challenges and more than 10 million location challenges have been processed to date, resulting in millions of data corrections.  The FCC also plays an active role in reviewing provider submitted data, initiating verifications and audits where warranted.  Over 1,000 validations have led to hundreds of updates to provider filings.  

The data collection, the challenge process, and the Map are all built on a modern data platform that is designed with performance, reliability, and security in mind.  This allows the FCC to efficiently process billions of records and terabytes of data for each new public Map using a modernized, cloud-first architecture that ensures data security and integrity – ever more important as we combat cyber threats.

We will soon begin our seventh data collection for June 30, 2025 data and will again update the National Broadband Map in the Fall.  The Commission is committed to continuing to produce the most comprehensive and up to date picture of broadband availability ever assembled, and we will continue to work with providers, governments, consumers and other stakeholders so that, together, we can ensure that the Map provides Americans with the best location-by-location information possible.