BROADBAND IN Connecticut

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Connecticut Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

99%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

35.4

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

2nd

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

98.7%

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

98.7%

of Connecticuters have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

0.0%

of Connecticuters have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

99.7%

of Connecticuters have access to wireline service.

1.1%

of Connecticuters have access to fiber-optic service.

98.4%

of Connecticuters have access to cable service.

97.0%

of Connecticuters have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Connecticuters have access to mobile broadband service.

0.0%

of Connecticuters have access to fixed wireless service.

Top 5 Fastest Cities In Connecticut

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Suffield

81.4 MBPS

81.4">%

East Haddam

78.5 MBPS

78.5">%

Hebron

77.8 MBPS

77.8">%

Litchfield

74.6 MBPS

74.6">%

East Haven

69.5 MBPS

69.5">%

Largest Competing Providers In Connecticut

Frontier vs XFINITY

Frontier vs Optimum by Cablevision

Cox vs Frontier

Charter Spectrum vs Frontier

Optimum by Cablevision vs Verizon Fios

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Connecticut State Broadband Initiative has been awarded $3,782,938 in federal grants for Connecticut's Broadband Initiative.
Another $93,855,029, accounting for 2.7% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Connecticut.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 97.7% to 99.6% of Connecticuters.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 67 broadband providers in Connecticut.
There are 49,000 people in Connecticut without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 139,000 people in Connecticut that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 12,000 people in Connecticut 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.

Connecticut CITIES


Bridgeport	100.0%	22 providers
Bristol	99.8%	16 providers
Danbury	97.8%	23 providers
East Hartford	97.8%	18 providers
Enfield	90.8%	14 providers
Fairfield	100.0%	17 providers
Greenwich	100.0%	25 providers
Groton	97.9%	13 providers
Hamden	98.8%	21 providers
Hartford	97.2%	27 providers
Manchester	98.5%	16 providers
Meriden	99.1%	17 providers
Middletown	97.5%	19 providers
Milford	100.0%	17 providers
Naugatuck	98.7%	13 providers
New Britain	98.1%	19 providers
New Haven	99.3%	20 providers
Newington	99.3%	22 providers
Norwalk	100.0%	23 providers
Norwich	97.5%	11 providers
Shelton	99.2%	17 providers
Southington	99.0%	17 providers
Stamford	100.0%	27 providers
Stratford	100.0%	22 providers
Torrington	100.0%	14 providers
Trumbull	100.0%	14 providers
Wallingford	99.1%	18 providers
Waterbury	98.7%	21 providers
West Hartford	97.7%	21 providers
West Haven	99.6%	14 providers

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Last Updated on 7/11/2017.