Internet Access in Massachusetts: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Massachusetts

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Massachusetts Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

95.9%

TERRESTRIAL BROADBAND COVERAGE

43.3%

WIRED LOW-PRICE PLAN ACCESS

84.6

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

9th

STATE BROADBAND ACCESS RANKING

BROADBAND SPEEDS

97.8%

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

97.3%

of Massachusettsans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

7.1%

of Massachusettsans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

99.0%

of Massachusettsans have access to wireline service.

43.2%

of Massachusettsans have access to fiber-optic service.

97.6%

of Massachusettsans have access to cable service.

89.5%

of Massachusettsans have access to DSL service.

Largest Competing Providers In Massachusetts

Xfinity vs RCN

Xfinity vs FairPoint

Coverage by County in Massachusetts

County Name	% Broadband Coverage
Barnstable	98.3%
Berkshire	92.6%
Bristol	98.6%
Dukes	92.6%
Essex	99.2%
Franklin	80.5%
Hampden	98.2%
Hampshire	87.2%
Middlesex	98.5%
Nantucket	99.7%
Norfolk	98.1%
Plymouth	98.3%
Suffolk	97.2%
Worcester	98.7%

Internet Speed in Top Massachusetts Cities

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Boston	82.4 MBPS	41 Providers
2.	Worcester	41.3 MBPS	24 Providers
3.	Springfield	74.4 MBPS	22 Providers
4.	Lowell	74.8 MBPS	19 Providers
5.	Cambridge	77.7 MBPS	29 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Massachusetts

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Verizon Fios	105.4 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	97.0 MBPS
RCN	84.3 MBPS
Verizon High Speed Internet	83.3 MBPS
Charter Spectrum	57.0 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Massachusetts Broadband Institute has been awarded $6,162,554 in federal grants for Massachusetts's Broadband Initiative.
Another $77,517,537, accounting for 2.2% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Massachusetts.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 97.0% to 98.9% of Massachusettsans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 126 internet providers in Massachusetts.
There are 147,000 people in Massachusetts without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 103,000 people in Massachusetts that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 64,000 people in Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts CITIES


Abington	99.4%	14 providers
Acton	99.6%	18 providers
Acushnet	99.8%	14 providers
Agawam	97.9%	18 providers
Allston	100.0%	20 providers
Amesbury	99.4%	15 providers
Amherst	69.1%	15 providers
Andover	99.3%	19 providers
Arlington	100.0%	21 providers
Ashland	99.6%	15 providers
Athol	99.9%	12 providers
Attleboro	99.3%	17 providers
Auburn	100.0%	16 providers
Bedford	99.5%	20 providers
Belchertown	100.0%	16 providers
Bellingham	99.9%	17 providers
Belmont	99.9%	15 providers
Beverly	99.6%	16 providers
Billerica	99.9%	18 providers
Boston	95.0%	41 providers
Braintree	99.3%	20 providers
Brewster	99.4%	13 providers
Bridgewater	84.6%	16 providers
Brighton	98.3%	23 providers
Brockton	98.6%	16 providers
Brookline	98.3%	25 providers
Burlington	99.6%	21 providers
Buzzards Bay	88.0%	14 providers
Cambridge	93.3%	29 providers
Canton	99.3%	21 providers
Carver	98.6%	13 providers
Centerville	99.8%	12 providers
Charlestown	98.5%	19 providers
Charlton	100.0%	14 providers
Chelmsford	98.0%	21 providers
Chelsea	99.0%	18 providers
Chestnut Hill	84.7%	18 providers
Chicopee	99.9%	17 providers
Clinton	99.9%	14 providers
Concord	100.0%	17 providers
Danvers	98.7%	20 providers
Dedham	97.3%	21 providers
Dorchester	99.0%	23 providers
Dorchester Center	99.2%	21 providers
Dracut	97.8%	16 providers
Dudley	100.0%	15 providers
Duxbury	99.8%	12 providers
East Bridgewater	99.7%	14 providers
East Falmouth	99.7%	12 providers
East Longmeadow	100.0%	18 providers
East Weymouth	98.8%	16 providers
Easthampton	99.9%	16 providers
Everett	99.9%	19 providers
Fairhaven	99.8%	12 providers
Fall River	98.8%	19 providers
Feeding Hills	99.8%	14 providers
Fitchburg	99.8%	16 providers
Florence	97.4%	12 providers
Foxboro	99.8%	16 providers
Framingham	99.4%	21 providers
Franklin	99.8%	18 providers
Gardner	94.7%	16 providers
Gloucester	99.8%	15 providers
Greenfield	98.4%	12 providers
Groton	100.0%	14 providers
Hanover	99.9%	16 providers
Hanson	99.5%	14 providers
Harwich	99.5%	15 providers
Haverhill	99.3%	18 providers
Hingham	99.1%	15 providers
Holbrook	100.0%	17 providers
Holden	100.0%	16 providers
Holliston	100.0%	15 providers
Holyoke	98.4%	17 providers
Hopkinton	100.0%	18 providers
Hudson	99.9%	17 providers
Hull	99.6%	12 providers
Hyannis	98.7%	16 providers
Hyde Park	99.6%	19 providers
Ipswich	99.4%	16 providers
Jamaica Plain	97.9%	21 providers
Kingston	99.3%	16 providers
Lakeville	99.7%	17 providers
Lawrence	99.6%	21 providers
Leominster	99.6%	15 providers
Lexington	99.7%	23 providers
Longmeadow	99.6%	16 providers
Lowell	98.8%	19 providers
Ludlow	100.0%	15 providers
Lunenburg	99.5%	13 providers
Lynn	99.6%	20 providers
Lynnfield	97.1%	23 providers
Malden	99.9%	19 providers
Mansfield	99.3%	16 providers
Marblehead	99.9%	12 providers
Marlborough	96.7%	19 providers
Marshfield	99.9%	16 providers
Mashpee	97.5%	13 providers
Mattapan	98.3%	19 providers
Maynard	99.8%	16 providers
Medfield	100.0%	15 providers
Medford	98.6%	19 providers
Medway	100.0%	13 providers
Melrose	100.0%	14 providers
Methuen	99.2%	19 providers
Middleboro	99.5%	16 providers
Milford	99.8%	19 providers
Millbury	100.0%	17 providers
Milton	97.3%	17 providers
Nantucket	99.7%	14 providers
Natick	100.0%	19 providers
Needham	98.3%	16 providers
New Bedford	99.3%	17 providers
Newburyport	99.8%	17 providers
Newton	99.9%	20 providers
Newton Center	95.1%	18 providers
Norfolk	81.8%	14 providers
North Adams	95.8%	13 providers
North Andover	98.4%	18 providers
North Attleboro	99.3%	19 providers
North Billerica	92.1%	19 providers
North Dartmouth	83.6%	21 providers
North Easton	97.4%	15 providers
North Reading	100.0%	16 providers
Northampton	94.4%	14 providers
Northborough	100.0%	16 providers
Norton	99.1%	16 providers
Norwell	99.4%	18 providers
Norwood	99.4%	20 providers
Oxford	100.0%	15 providers
Peabody	98.5%	20 providers
Pembroke	99.9%	17 providers
Pepperell	100.0%	15 providers
Pittsfield	99.9%	15 providers
Plymouth	97.0%	18 providers
Quincy	98.4%	22 providers
Randolph	99.7%	19 providers
Raynham	99.9%	15 providers
Reading	99.9%	16 providers
Rehoboth	100.0%	12 providers
Revere	99.4%	16 providers
Rockland	99.9%	17 providers
Roslindale	99.3%	18 providers
Roxbury	99.8%	24 providers
Roxbury Crossing	92.5%	23 providers
Salem	99.4%	20 providers
Sandwich	99.5%	13 providers
Saugus	99.5%	18 providers
Scituate	99.6%	12 providers
Seekonk	99.9%	17 providers
Sharon	98.8%	16 providers
Shrewsbury	100.0%	19 providers
Somerset	99.9%	13 providers
Somerville	99.9%	27 providers
South Dartmouth	99.8%	14 providers
South Hadley	92.3%	14 providers
South Weymouth	98.6%	15 providers
Southbridge	100.0%	14 providers
Southwick	99.9%	15 providers
Spencer	99.9%	13 providers
Springfield	99.1%	22 providers
Stoneham	99.2%	16 providers
Stoughton	99.5%	20 providers
Sudbury	100.0%	14 providers
Swampscott	99.9%	17 providers
Swansea	99.7%	12 providers
Taunton	99.3%	16 providers
Tewksbury	99.7%	18 providers
Tyngsboro	99.4%	14 providers
Uxbridge	100.0%	13 providers
Wakefield	99.4%	14 providers
Walpole	99.5%	19 providers
Waltham	93.6%	28 providers
Ware	98.6%	13 providers
Wareham	99.6%	13 providers
Watertown	100.0%	20 providers
Wayland	99.7%	12 providers
Webster	100.0%	14 providers
Wellesley	99.3%	17 providers
Wellesley Hills	87.2%	21 providers
West Newton	100.0%	16 providers
West Roxbury	98.9%	19 providers
West Springfield	98.7%	18 providers
Westborough	100.0%	22 providers
Westfield	96.4%	16 providers
Westford	99.4%	17 providers
Weston	99.8%	15 providers
Westport	99.3%	14 providers
Westwood	97.1%	20 providers
Weymouth	98.9%	16 providers
Whitinsville	99.9%	13 providers
Whitman	99.6%	15 providers
Wilbraham	100.0%	17 providers
Wilmington	100.0%	21 providers
Winchendon	98.0%	11 providers
Winchester	99.3%	14 providers
Winthrop	99.5%	12 providers
Woburn	98.4%	21 providers
Worcester	100.0%	24 providers
Wrentham	97.3%	15 providers

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Last Updated on 2/6/2020.

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