BROADBAND IN Massachusetts

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Massachusetts Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

97%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

39.9

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

5th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

97.2%

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

94.7%

of Massachusettsans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

0.0%

of Massachusettsans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

98.9%

of Massachusettsans have access to wireline service.

38.8%

of Massachusettsans have access to fiber-optic service.

96.8%

of Massachusettsans have access to cable service.

89.8%

of Massachusettsans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Massachusettsans have access to mobile broadband service.

14.7%

of Massachusettsans have access to fixed wireless service.

Top 5 Fastest Cities In Massachusetts

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Carver

99.4 MBPS

99.4">%

Newburyport

90.8 MBPS

90.8">%

Waban

86.4 MBPS

86.4">%

Lunenburg

85.2 MBPS

85.2">%

Wayland

84.7 MBPS

84.7">%

Largest Competing Providers In Massachusetts

Verizon Fios vs XFINITY

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 98.1% of Massachusettsans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 97 broadband providers in Massachusetts.
There are 188,000 people in Massachusetts without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 190,000 people in Massachusetts that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 74,000 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


Amherst	61.7%	13 providers
Andover	99.2%	23 providers
Arlington	100.0%	19 providers
Attleboro	98.9%	17 providers
Beverly	98.7%	17 providers
Billerica	99.5%	20 providers
Boston	95.2%	50 providers
Braintree	99.9%	18 providers
Brighton	97.8%	23 providers
Brockton	97.6%	18 providers
Brookline	98.2%	28 providers
Cambridge	94.1%	35 providers
Chelsea	98.7%	15 providers
Chicopee	99.6%	17 providers
Dorchester	98.7%	24 providers
Dorchester Center	98.8%	19 providers
Everett	99.9%	15 providers
Fall River	98.0%	18 providers
Fitchburg	99.5%	16 providers
Framingham	98.4%	26 providers
Franklin	99.4%	21 providers
Haverhill	98.8%	23 providers
Holyoke	96.9%	16 providers
Jamaica Plain	96.2%	16 providers
Lawrence	99.6%	23 providers
Leominster	97.1%	15 providers
Lexington	99.4%	27 providers
Lowell	95.9%	22 providers
Lynn	99.5%	21 providers
Malden	99.9%	18 providers
Marlborough	95.6%	26 providers
Medford	97.8%	16 providers
Methuen	99.1%	20 providers
Natick	99.9%	23 providers
New Bedford	99.7%	16 providers
Peabody	98.7%	23 providers
Pittsfield	97.6%	17 providers
Plymouth	97.1%	15 providers
Quincy	98.0%	27 providers
Randolph	99.2%	20 providers
Revere	99.1%	13 providers
Salem	99.1%	19 providers
Shrewsbury	100.0%	19 providers
Somerville	100.0%	26 providers
Springfield	98.9%	25 providers
Taunton	99.5%	18 providers
Waltham	93.7%	32 providers
Watertown	100.0%	21 providers
Westfield	94.3%	14 providers
Woburn	98.5%	23 providers
Worcester	99.9%	29 providers

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Last Updated on 7/11/2017.