Internet Access in Maryland: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Maryland

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Maryland Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

97%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

42.3

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

8th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

96.7%

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

96.7%

of Marylanders have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

0.6%

of Marylanders have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

97.7%

of Marylanders have access to wireline service.

60.9%

of Marylanders have access to fiber-optic service.

95.8%

of Marylanders have access to cable service.

73.7%

of Marylanders have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Marylanders have access to mobile broadband service.

21.5%

of Marylanders have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Maryland

Verizon Fios vs XFINITY

XFINITY vs RCN

Verizon Fios vs RCN

XFINITY vs FairPoint

CenturyLink vs XFINITY

Top 5 Fastest cities in Maryland

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Dundalk	175.4 MBPS	14 Providers
2.	Clinton	139.4 MBPS	15 Providers
3.	Burtonsville	138.5 MBPS	15 Providers
4.	Poolesville	124.6 MBPS	12 Providers
5.	Germantown	123.1 MBPS	21 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Maryland

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Verizon Fios	58.6 MBPS
Verizon High Speed Internet	42.2 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	40.4 MBPS
Windstream	26.1 MBPS
Telegia Communications	9.9 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Maryland Broadband Map has been awarded $4,755,768 in federal grants for Maryland's Broadband Initiative.
Another $115,240,581, accounting for 3.3% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Maryland.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 90.2% to 97.1% of Marylanders.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 123 internet providers in Maryland.
There are 199,000 people in Maryland without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 377,000 people in Maryland that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 137,000 people in Maryland 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.

Maryland CITIES


Annapolis	94.3%	20 providers
Baltimore	97.1%	24 providers
Bel Air	99.5%	18 providers
Bethesda	99.9%	26 providers
Bowie	98.9%	20 providers
Brooklyn	96.6%	18 providers
Capitol Heights	99.6%	13 providers
Catonsville	97.4%	17 providers
Clinton	99.8%	15 providers
College Park	97.4%	16 providers
Columbia	98.2%	26 providers
Cumberland	92.3%	12 providers
District Heights	97.4%	18 providers
Dundalk	99.5%	14 providers
Elkton	98.6%	16 providers
Ellicott City	99.1%	20 providers
Essex	99.2%	14 providers
Fort Washington	98.1%	15 providers
Frederick	96.6%	20 providers
Gaithersburg	99.1%	24 providers
Germantown	97.8%	21 providers
Glen Burnie	98.6%	19 providers
Gwynn Oak	99.8%	14 providers
Hagerstown	93.8%	18 providers
Halethorpe	98.7%	17 providers
Hyattsville	98.5%	24 providers
Lanham	94.4%	19 providers
Laurel	98.1%	22 providers
Lutherville Timonium	97.2%	16 providers
Middle River	99.5%	14 providers
Montgomery Village	99.7%	17 providers
Nottingham	99.8%	16 providers
Odenton	98.9%	17 providers
Owings Mills	98.1%	19 providers
Parkville	96.9%	17 providers
Pasadena	99.7%	15 providers
Pikesville	97.6%	20 providers
Potomac	100.0%	17 providers
Reisterstown	99.2%	17 providers
Rockville	98.6%	25 providers
Salisbury	94.6%	13 providers
Severn	99.4%	12 providers
Silver Spring	98.6%	27 providers
Sykesville	97.8%	19 providers
Temple Hills	94.1%	15 providers
Towson	92.5%	21 providers
Upper Marlboro	98.8%	19 providers
Waldorf	99.0%	17 providers
Westminster	98.2%	17 providers
Windsor Mill	98.2%	17 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.