BROADBAND IN Arkansas

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Arkansas Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

71%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

34%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

27.1

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

48th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

74.6%

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

54.3%

of Arkansans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

9.5%

of Arkansans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

91.3%

of Arkansans have access to wireline service.

4.1%

of Arkansans have access to fiber-optic service.

69.7%

of Arkansans have access to cable service.

84.8%

of Arkansans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Arkansans have access to mobile broadband service.

41.6%

of Arkansans have access to fixed wireless service.

Top 5 Fastest Cities In Arkansas

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Farmington

41.4 MBPS

41.4">%

Rogers

37.1 MBPS

37.1">%

Fayetteville

36.0 MBPS

36.0">%

Bentonville

35.4 MBPS

35.4">%

Springdale

33.0 MBPS

33.0">%

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

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 82.7% of Arkansans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 118 broadband providers in Arkansas.
There are 766,000 people in Arkansas without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 770,000 people in Arkansas that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 263,000 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


Benton	89.7%	13 providers
Bentonville	93.2%	16 providers
Cabot	95.1%	14 providers
Conway	87.8%	17 providers
El Dorado	89.3%	11 providers
Fayetteville	93.4%	19 providers
Fort Smith	98.3%	22 providers
Hot Springs	89.3%	13 providers
Jacksonville	97.7%	18 providers
Jonesboro	88.9%	23 providers
Little Rock	96.9%	30 providers
North Little Rock	92.8%	27 providers
Paragould	78.4%	17 providers
Pine Bluff	65.1%	16 providers
Rogers	94.0%	20 providers
Russellville	91.9%	12 providers
Searcy	76.1%	14 providers
Sherwood	98.7%	23 providers
Springdale	95.1%	20 providers
Texarkana	94.0%	12 providers
Van Buren	93.5%	14 providers

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Last Updated on 7/11/2017.