Internet Access in Arkansas: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Arkansas

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Arkansas Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

77%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

30%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

26.2

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

48th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

79.6%

of Arkansans have access to wired broadband 25mbps or faster.

62.8%

of Arkansans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

7.6%

of Arkansans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

92.4%

of Arkansans have access to wireline service.

16.5%

of Arkansans have access to fiber-optic service.

70.1%

of Arkansans have access to cable service.

84.9%

of Arkansans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Arkansans have access to mobile broadband service.

51.9%

of Arkansans have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Arkansas

AT&T Internet vs Cox

AT&T Internet vs Xfinity

AT&T Internet vs Suddenlink

CenturyLink vs Suddenlink

CenturyLink vs Cox

Top 5 Fastest cities in Arkansas

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Quitman	115.7 MBPS	9 Providers
2.	Wickes	68.0 MBPS	5 Providers
3.	Eureka Springs	48.7 MBPS	12 Providers
4.	Viola	48.2 MBPS	5 Providers
5.	Mc Gehee	46.8 MBPS	6 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Arkansas

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Cox Communications	37.9 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	36.3 MBPS
Suddenlink Communications	30.9 MBPS
AT&T Internet	16.6 MBPS
CenturyLink	7.8 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Connect Arkansas has been awarded $6,175,366 in federal grants for Arkansas's Broadband Initiative.
Another $102,131,393, accounting for 2.9% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Arkansas.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 71.3% to 85.8% of Arkansans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 124 internet providers in Arkansas.
There are 614,000 people in Arkansas without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 661,000 people in Arkansas that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 230,000 people in Arkansas don't have any wired internet providers available where they live.

Sources: Data collected via the FCC, NTIA, and other sources. For a full list of data sources please visit our data page.

Arkansas CITIES


Alexander	94.0%	11 providers
Alma	87.1%	12 providers
Arkadelphia	76.6%	10 providers
Ashdown	64.1%	9 providers
Atkins	99.8%	8 providers
Austin	98.5%	11 providers
Bald Knob	57.5%	9 providers
Barling	99.5%	11 providers
Batesville	89.5%	10 providers
Bauxite	97.1%	9 providers
Beebe	77.0%	11 providers
Bella Vista	95.0%	10 providers
Benton	89.6%	10 providers
Bentonville	93.3%	13 providers
Berryville	66.6%	8 providers
Bismarck	0.0%	6 providers
Blytheville	80.5%	10 providers
Bono	75.7%	15 providers
Booneville	24.4%	6 providers
Bradford	72.1%	9 providers
Brinkley	0.2%	9 providers
Bryant	99.5%	10 providers
Cabot	96.0%	11 providers
Camden	59.6%	10 providers
Carlisle	1.6%	8 providers
Cave City	80.1%	9 providers
Centerton	98.6%	12 providers
Charleston	37.8%	9 providers
Cherokee Village	88.8%	8 providers
Clarksville	72.7%	9 providers
Clinton	99.6%	7 providers
Conway	100.0%	13 providers
Corning	44.4%	7 providers
Crossett	44.7%	6 providers
Danville	86.7%	6 providers
Dardanelle	62.2%	8 providers
De Queen	87.4%	7 providers
De Witt	35.9%	7 providers
Dermott	63.4%	6 providers
Dover	60.8%	7 providers
Dumas	77.1%	6 providers
El Dorado	89.3%	10 providers
Elkins	47.9%	10 providers
England	0.3%	10 providers
Eureka Springs	61.7%	12 providers
Farmington	99.0%	11 providers
Fayetteville	93.7%	16 providers
Flippin	75.0%	8 providers
Fordyce	28.1%	7 providers
Forrest City	49.9%	10 providers
Fort Smith	99.0%	14 providers
Fouke	46.3%	8 providers
Garfield	40.7%	10 providers
Gentry	61.2%	11 providers
Glenwood	53.3%	6 providers
Grady	0.0%	6 providers
Gravette	59.8%	13 providers
Green Forest	62.2%	10 providers
Greenbrier	100.0%	10 providers
Greenwood	88.6%	8 providers
Gurdon	68.4%	7 providers
Hackett	70.7%	7 providers
Hamburg	0.0%	6 providers
Hardy	49.2%	7 providers
Harrisburg	59.7%	11 providers
Harrison	88.7%	10 providers
Heber Springs	100.0%	12 providers
Helena	88.2%	7 providers
Hensley	83.8%	12 providers
Hope	70.1%	13 providers
Hot Springs	90.5%	13 providers
Hot Springs Village	90.1%	10 providers
Huntsville	26.0%	12 providers
Jacksonville	99.0%	14 providers
Jonesboro	88.9%	17 providers
Judsonia	35.3%	10 providers
Lake Village	78.9%	7 providers
Lamar	46.8%	7 providers
Lavaca	92.5%	8 providers
Lincoln	93.8%	9 providers
Little Rock	97.8%	22 providers
Lonoke	47.7%	11 providers
Lowell	98.5%	13 providers
Mabelvale	97.5%	13 providers
Magnolia	74.3%	9 providers
Malvern	59.0%	12 providers
Manila	70.0%	11 providers
Marianna	46.3%	7 providers
Marion	91.8%	10 providers
Marshall	99.4%	7 providers
Maumelle	100.0%	14 providers
Mayflower	100.0%	10 providers
Mc Gehee	93.3%	6 providers
Mena	71.5%	9 providers
Monticello	80.7%	8 providers
Morrilton	100.0%	9 providers
Mountain Home	82.3%	9 providers
Mountain View	97.2%	7 providers
Mulberry	79.1%	8 providers
Nashville	1.1%	8 providers
Newport	81.3%	10 providers
North Little Rock	94.4%	19 providers
Osceola	83.2%	12 providers
Ozark	19.5%	8 providers
Paragould	78.4%	13 providers
Paris	41.8%	7 providers
Pea Ridge	80.4%	12 providers
Pearcy	61.8%	10 providers
Piggott	84.0%	10 providers
Pine Bluff	65.4%	13 providers
Pocahontas	78.8%	9 providers
Prairie Grove	95.8%	10 providers
Prescott	54.9%	8 providers
Quitman	100.0%	9 providers
Rector	69.0%	11 providers
Rison	0.7%	6 providers
Rogers	94.7%	14 providers
Royal	15.6%	11 providers
Russellville	94.1%	10 providers
Salem	35.0%	7 providers
Searcy	75.1%	12 providers
Sheridan	52.0%	7 providers
Sherwood	99.7%	17 providers
Siloam Springs	86.3%	10 providers
Springdale	94.6%	16 providers
Star City	2.5%	8 providers
Stuttgart	29.7%	8 providers
Texarkana	95.0%	11 providers
Trumann	85.6%	12 providers
Van Buren	93.6%	11 providers
Vilonia	100.0%	10 providers
Waldron	56.0%	7 providers
Walnut Ridge	71.9%	12 providers
Ward	79.3%	9 providers
Warren	81.9%	9 providers
West Fork	73.3%	10 providers
West Helena	93.7%	7 providers
West Memphis	98.1%	12 providers
White Hall	41.4%	11 providers
Wynne	69.3%	10 providers
Yellville	12.7%	8 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.

Broadband Internet in Arkansas