Internet Access in Montana: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Montana

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Montana Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

77%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

25%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

26.7

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

48th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

79.2%

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

70.3%

of Montanans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

3.4%

of Montanans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

96.2%

of Montanans have access to wireline service.

13.6%

of Montanans have access to fiber-optic service.

64.5%

of Montanans have access to cable service.

91.4%

of Montanans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

99.1%

of Montanans have access to mobile broadband service.

75.2%

of Montanans have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Montana

Spectrum vs CenturyLink

Top 5 Fastest cities in Montana

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Winnett	248.5 MBPS	6 Providers
2.	Ryegate	69.9 MBPS	7 Providers
3.	Belgrade	55.4 MBPS	12 Providers
4.	Polson	52.8 MBPS	10 Providers
5.	Grass Range	52.1 MBPS	7 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Montana

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Charter Spectrum	34.7 MBPS
Montana Internet Corporation	14.5 MBPS
CenturyLink	11.0 MBPS
Cybernet1	10.1 MBPS
WispWest.net	8.3 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Montana Broadband Program has been awarded $6,084,826 in federal grants for Montana's Broadband Initiative.
Another $13,796,640, accounting for 0.4% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Montana.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 59.4% to 89.1% of Montanans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 118 internet providers in Montana.
There are 213,000 people in Montana without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 215,000 people in Montana that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 39,000 people in Montana 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.

Montana CITIES


Anaconda	79.2%	10 providers
Belgrade	88.3%	12 providers
Bigfork	92.2%	9 providers
Billings	97.5%	14 providers
Bozeman	95.9%	18 providers
Browning	0.1%	6 providers
Butte	90.6%	12 providers
Clancy	86.5%	11 providers
Columbia Falls	90.9%	10 providers
Columbus	51.9%	13 providers
Corvallis	40.6%	13 providers
Cut Bank	72.9%	9 providers
Deer Lodge	60.9%	8 providers
Dillon	77.0%	8 providers
East Helena	84.0%	10 providers
Eureka	67.7%	6 providers
Florence	85.7%	12 providers
Glasgow	91.0%	6 providers
Glendive	91.1%	7 providers
Great Falls	93.2%	14 providers
Hamilton	74.2%	12 providers
Hardin	14.7%	9 providers
Havre	95.4%	9 providers
Helena	87.9%	13 providers
Kalispell	92.7%	10 providers
Laurel	90.5%	10 providers
Lewistown	90.1%	9 providers
Libby	0.0%	7 providers
Livingston	74.0%	9 providers
Lolo	93.2%	11 providers
Manhattan	45.5%	12 providers
Miles City	94.6%	9 providers
Missoula	96.3%	13 providers
Polson	94.4%	10 providers
Ronan	65.7%	9 providers
Roundup	50.3%	8 providers
Shelby	37.7%	10 providers
Sidney	94.2%	8 providers
Stevensville	30.3%	12 providers
Townsend	14.9%	8 providers
Whitefish	84.4%	10 providers
Wolf Point	77.0%	6 providers

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Last Updated on 3/6/2019.

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