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.

76%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

20%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

32.9

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

50th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

80.3%

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

61.1%

of Arkansans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

18.9%

of Arkansans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

93.1%

of Arkansans have access to wireline service.

11.6%

of Arkansans have access to fiber-optic service.

71.9%

of Arkansans have access to cable service.

87.2%

of Arkansans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Arkansans have access to mobile broadband service.

41.1%

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	200.9 MBPS	9 Providers
2.	Wickes	86.0 MBPS	5 Providers
3.	Chidester	58.0 MBPS	7 Providers
4.	Jonesboro	55.1 MBPS	19 Providers
5.	Lowell	52.2 MBPS	15 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Arkansas

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
XFINITY from Comcast	45.4 MBPS
Suddenlink Communications	45.0 MBPS
Cox Communications	40.9 MBPS
AT&T Internet	33.5 MBPS
CenturyLink	18.1 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 88.4% of Arkansans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 136 internet providers in Arkansas.
There are 595,000 people in Arkansas without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 409,000 people in Arkansas that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 208,000 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	96.8%	13 providers
Alma	90.3%	12 providers
Arkadelphia	82.4%	11 providers
Ashdown	64.6%	10 providers
Atkins	82.6%	9 providers
Austin	99.5%	12 providers
Bald Knob	46.7%	10 providers
Barling	99.8%	12 providers
Batesville	85.8%	11 providers
Bauxite	97.1%	11 providers
Beebe	75.5%	13 providers
Bella Vista	98.4%	11 providers
Benton	90.2%	12 providers
Bentonville	95.4%	13 providers
Berryville	76.1%	10 providers
Bismarck	20.7%	7 providers
Blytheville	80.4%	12 providers
Bono	77.3%	16 providers
Booneville	26.8%	8 providers
Bradford	65.8%	11 providers
Brinkley	3.4%	9 providers
Bryant	99.5%	15 providers
Cabot	99.0%	11 providers
Camden	60.2%	11 providers
Carlisle	40.7%	8 providers
Cave City	2.0%	9 providers
Centerton	99.7%	14 providers
Charleston	37.5%	10 providers
Cherokee Village	91.4%	9 providers
Clarksville	75.0%	11 providers
Clinton	1.9%	8 providers
Conway	92.4%	16 providers
Corning	56.4%	8 providers
Crossett	44.3%	6 providers
Danville	86.7%	7 providers
Dardanelle	68.8%	8 providers
De Queen	89.2%	7 providers
De Witt	6.2%	7 providers
Dermott	63.4%	7 providers
Dover	76.7%	9 providers
Dumas	77.1%	8 providers
El Dorado	91.5%	10 providers
Elkins	57.0%	10 providers
England	0.9%	11 providers
Eureka Springs	62.2%	11 providers
Farmington	99.9%	11 providers
Fayetteville	97.1%	17 providers
Flippin	78.2%	9 providers
Fordyce	29.0%	7 providers
Forrest City	49.8%	11 providers
Fort Smith	99.4%	17 providers
Fouke	64.6%	9 providers
Garfield	60.3%	11 providers
Gentry	84.4%	12 providers
Glenwood	64.8%	6 providers
Grady	0.0%	7 providers
Gravette	59.8%	14 providers
Green Forest	77.5%	11 providers
Greenbrier	68.9%	11 providers
Greenwood	90.5%	9 providers
Gurdon	70.2%	8 providers
Hackett	76.3%	8 providers
Hamburg	0.8%	7 providers
Hardy	51.0%	8 providers
Harrisburg	61.0%	12 providers
Harrison	84.9%	9 providers
Heber Springs	88.6%	13 providers
Helena	93.2%	9 providers
Hensley	80.3%	13 providers
Hope	72.1%	12 providers
Hot Springs	91.3%	15 providers
Hot Springs Village	94.4%	11 providers
Huntsville	54.5%	11 providers
Jacksonville	98.6%	15 providers
Jonesboro	92.3%	19 providers
Judsonia	37.9%	13 providers
Lake Village	79.0%	8 providers
Lamar	54.7%	8 providers
Lavaca	95.5%	9 providers
Lincoln	94.6%	9 providers
Little Rock	98.0%	23 providers
Lonoke	51.1%	12 providers
Lowell	99.4%	15 providers
Mabelvale	98.6%	16 providers
Magnolia	79.0%	10 providers
Malvern	61.4%	12 providers
Manila	70.0%	12 providers
Marianna	50.1%	8 providers
Marion	91.6%	11 providers
Marshall	46.7%	7 providers
Maumelle	99.8%	16 providers
Mayflower	10.8%	11 providers
Mc Gehee	93.3%	7 providers
Mena	71.5%	10 providers
Monticello	77.8%	9 providers
Morrilton	80.7%	10 providers
Mountain Home	82.4%	10 providers
Mountain View	45.6%	7 providers
Mulberry	78.2%	9 providers
Nashville	1.2%	9 providers
Newport	85.6%	12 providers
North Little Rock	95.2%	22 providers
Osceola	80.5%	13 providers
Ozark	29.2%	11 providers
Paragould	79.0%	14 providers
Paris	40.1%	8 providers
Pea Ridge	89.7%	12 providers
Pearcy	73.3%	13 providers
Piggott	87.7%	10 providers
Pine Bluff	69.6%	13 providers
Pocahontas	82.4%	9 providers
Prairie Grove	96.9%	10 providers
Prescott	71.0%	9 providers
Quitman	62.7%	9 providers
Rector	69.2%	11 providers
Rison	96.5%	6 providers
Rogers	96.1%	18 providers
Royal	43.3%	12 providers
Russellville	94.9%	11 providers
Salem	37.7%	8 providers
Searcy	78.4%	15 providers
Sheridan	55.9%	7 providers
Sherwood	99.7%	18 providers
Siloam Springs	86.2%	11 providers
Springdale	97.8%	18 providers
Star City	35.4%	9 providers
Stuttgart	12.8%	8 providers
Texarkana	96.1%	11 providers
Trumann	85.6%	13 providers
Van Buren	95.0%	12 providers
Vilonia	75.3%	13 providers
Waldron	59.4%	8 providers
Walnut Ridge	80.3%	12 providers
Ward	86.8%	10 providers
Warren	85.3%	10 providers
West Fork	78.2%	9 providers
West Helena	97.2%	8 providers
West Memphis	98.2%	13 providers
White Hall	41.5%	12 providers
Wynne	69.0%	11 providers
Yellville	39.7%	7 providers

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Last Updated on 10/16/2019.

Broadband Internet in Arkansas