Kentucky Internet Service Providers: Availability & Coverage

INTERNET ACCESS IN Kentucky

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Kentucky Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

85%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

22%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

30.5

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

35th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

88.3%

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

29.5%

of Kentuckians have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

12.9%

of Kentuckians have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

95.8%

of Kentuckians have access to wireline service.

18.3%

of Kentuckians have access to fiber-optic service.

80.5%

of Kentuckians have access to cable service.

83.8%

of Kentuckians have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Kentuckians have access to mobile broadband service.

30.9%

of Kentuckians have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Kentucky

AT&T Internet vs Xfinity

AT&T Internet vs Suddenlink

AT&T Internet vs TDS

Top 5 Fastest cities in Kentucky

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Independence	101.7 MBPS	11 Providers
2.	Brandenburg	77.6 MBPS	11 Providers
3.	Greenup	72.6 MBPS	10 Providers
4.	Cynthiana	70.0 MBPS	10 Providers
5.	Prestonsburg	68.6 MBPS	13 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Kentucky

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Charter Spectrum	39.2 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	36.0 MBPS
AT&T Internet	26.3 MBPS
Windstream	8.0 MBPS
Q Wireless	1.5 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Connect Kentucky has been awarded $5,302,717 in federal grants for Kentucky's Broadband Initiative.
Another $535,308, accounting for 0.0% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Kentucky.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 79.9% to 92.4% of Kentuckians.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 173 internet providers in Kentucky.
There are 524,000 people in Kentucky without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 813,000 people in Kentucky that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 187,000 people in Kentucky 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.

Kentucky CITIES


Albany	79.4%	7 providers
Alexandria	98.1%	9 providers
Alvaton	64.8%	13 providers
Ashland	99.6%	14 providers
Auburn	73.8%	11 providers
Barbourville	72.6%	11 providers
Bardstown	52.7%	14 providers
Beattyville	12.1%	11 providers
Beaver Dam	77.3%	12 providers
Bedford	78.9%	12 providers
Bellevue	100.0%	12 providers
Benton	96.1%	12 providers
Berea	97.4%	9 providers
Booneville	97.5%	6 providers
Bowling Green	93.2%	15 providers
Brandenburg	99.2%	11 providers
Brodhead	81.0%	9 providers
Brooksville	65.5%	9 providers
Brownsville	87.4%	8 providers
Burkesville	50.9%	10 providers
Burlington	99.9%	12 providers
Butler	57.0%	7 providers
Cadiz	72.2%	8 providers
Calhoun	37.7%	12 providers
California	86.5%	9 providers
Calvert City	95.6%	15 providers
Campbellsville	90.5%	8 providers
Campton	92.1%	7 providers
Caneyville	70.0%	9 providers
Carlisle	45.2%	10 providers
Carrollton	88.9%	12 providers
Catlettsburg	90.7%	13 providers
Cave City	90.6%	9 providers
Cecilia	100.0%	9 providers
Central City	75.8%	14 providers
Clarkson	81.0%	9 providers
Clay City	12.5%	11 providers
Columbia	78.2%	8 providers
Corbin	89.9%	17 providers
Covington	100.0%	12 providers
Coxs Creek	18.9%	10 providers
Crab Orchard	31.8%	11 providers
Crestwood	97.8%	11 providers
Crittenden	95.3%	9 providers
Crofton	54.4%	11 providers
Cumberland	98.9%	11 providers
Cynthiana	53.1%	10 providers
Danville	85.5%	14 providers
Dawson Springs	59.5%	7 providers
Dayton	100.0%	10 providers
Dry Ridge	85.3%	11 providers
East Bernstadt	96.8%	10 providers
Eddyville	23.6%	11 providers
Edmonton	70.2%	8 providers
Elizabethtown	99.6%	12 providers
Elkhorn City	0.0%	10 providers
Elkton	44.9%	11 providers
Eminence	89.2%	9 providers
Erlanger	100.0%	11 providers
Eubank	89.7%	9 providers
Evarts	73.4%	7 providers
Fairdale	100.0%	11 providers
Falmouth	77.2%	8 providers
Fisherville	92.2%	12 providers
Flatwoods	100.0%	10 providers
Flemingsburg	68.1%	8 providers
Florence	98.9%	14 providers
Fort Campbell	91.4%	10 providers
Fort Knox	100.0%	10 providers
Fort Thomas	100.0%	14 providers
Frankfort	97.5%	15 providers
Franklin	72.7%	12 providers
Ft Mitchell	99.9%	13 providers
Fulton	65.9%	9 providers
Georgetown	90.4%	14 providers
Glasgow	78.1%	12 providers
Goshen	97.3%	11 providers
Gray	49.2%	13 providers
Grayson	61.3%	11 providers
Greensburg	90.4%	9 providers
Greenup	88.1%	10 providers
Greenville	85.8%	12 providers
Hardinsburg	70.1%	13 providers
Harlan	93.5%	9 providers
Harrodsburg	77.2%	12 providers
Hartford	44.1%	11 providers
Hawesville	0.0%	15 providers
Hazard	75.9%	11 providers
Hebron	99.8%	11 providers
Henderson	90.3%	15 providers
Hodgenville	85.0%	11 providers
Hopkinsville	91.2%	12 providers
Horse Cave	88.1%	8 providers
Hustonville	82.9%	10 providers
Independence	100.0%	11 providers
Inez	0.0%	9 providers
Irvine	96.8%	10 providers
Jackson	9.4%	12 providers
Jamestown	65.8%	7 providers
Jeffersonville	92.0%	10 providers
Jenkins	46.1%	10 providers
Kevil	96.7%	8 providers
La Grange	92.1%	12 providers
Lancaster	78.4%	10 providers
Latonia	99.3%	10 providers
Lawrenceburg	81.3%	12 providers
Lebanon	89.8%	10 providers
Lebanon Junction	94.7%	14 providers
Leitchfield	92.6%	11 providers
Lewisburg	47.9%	11 providers
Lewisport	40.7%	12 providers
Lexington	98.5%	17 providers
Liberty	88.0%	7 providers
London	97.4%	13 providers
Louisa	98.7%	14 providers
Louisville	99.9%	24 providers
Madisonville	91.6%	10 providers
Manchester	84.4%	11 providers
Marion	61.1%	11 providers
Mayfield	94.6%	12 providers
Maysville	29.4%	9 providers
Mc Kee	100.0%	8 providers
Middlesboro	91.0%	11 providers
Monticello	71.4%	9 providers
Morehead	98.4%	9 providers
Morganfield	77.8%	12 providers
Morgantown	37.3%	9 providers
Mount Sterling	90.6%	12 providers
Mount Vernon	92.0%	9 providers
Mount Washington	99.5%	10 providers
Munfordville	88.3%	8 providers
Murray	96.6%	10 providers
Nancy	78.9%	10 providers
New Haven	90.5%	11 providers
Newport	99.5%	15 providers
Nicholasville	98.2%	13 providers
Oak Grove	95.3%	15 providers
Olive Hill	82.3%	9 providers
Owensboro	97.5%	13 providers
Owenton	70.5%	9 providers
Owingsville	77.6%	11 providers
Paducah	98.1%	16 providers
Paintsville	71.1%	11 providers
Paris	77.2%	15 providers
Philpot	49.7%	13 providers
Pikeville	7.1%	16 providers
Pine Knot	100.0%	7 providers
Pineville	73.3%	9 providers
Prestonsburg	44.6%	13 providers
Princeton	66.0%	9 providers
Prospect	99.6%	11 providers
Providence	81.1%	10 providers
Radcliff	100.0%	14 providers
Richmond	94.0%	18 providers
Rineyville	100.0%	10 providers
Russell	99.2%	12 providers
Russell Springs	90.9%	9 providers
Russellville	92.6%	13 providers
Salyersville	83.8%	6 providers
Sandy Hook	100.0%	6 providers
Science Hill	97.0%	8 providers
Scottsville	91.7%	10 providers
Shelbyville	91.2%	13 providers
Shepherdsville	99.6%	12 providers
Simpsonville	82.5%	12 providers
Smiths Grove	79.2%	11 providers
Somerset	97.3%	10 providers
South Shore	87.9%	11 providers
Springfield	39.0%	13 providers
Stanford	68.5%	12 providers
Stanton	0.8%	10 providers
Stearns	100.0%	7 providers
Sturgis	82.0%	8 providers
Taylorsville	86.6%	13 providers
Tompkinsville	87.1%	8 providers
Union	99.8%	9 providers
Utica	42.1%	14 providers
Vanceburg	65.8%	8 providers
Versailles	96.5%	12 providers
Vine Grove	93.9%	11 providers
Walton	98.5%	11 providers
Waynesburg	78.3%	10 providers
West Liberty	100.0%	8 providers
West Paducah	97.1%	11 providers
Whitesburg	1.3%	10 providers
Whitley City	100.0%	7 providers
Williamsburg	93.3%	14 providers
Williamstown	67.0%	10 providers
Wilmore	92.8%	10 providers
Winchester	80.3%	13 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.

Broadband Internet in Kentucky