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.

69%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

25%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

22.9

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

50th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

71.7%

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

62.7%

of Montanans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

1.9%

of Montanans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

95.1%

of Montanans have access to wireline service.

12.9%

of Montanans have access to fiber-optic service.

64.7%

of Montanans have access to cable service.

90.3%

of Montanans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

99.1%

of Montanans have access to mobile broadband service.

71.9%

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.	Terry	59.1 MBPS	6 Providers
2.	Belgrade	45.4 MBPS	12 Providers
3.	Black Eagle	41.7 MBPS	10 Providers
4.	Jordan	36.8 MBPS	5 Providers
5.	Polson	33.0 MBPS	9 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Montana

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Charter Spectrum	30.1 MBPS
CenturyLink	9.7 MBPS
Montana Internet Corporation	9.1 MBPS
MontanaSky Networks	7.8 MBPS
Cybernet1	4.6 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 85.8% of Montanans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 114 internet providers in Montana.
There are 290,000 people in Montana without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 210,000 people in Montana that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 50,000 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	76.6%	9 providers
Belgrade	87.3%	12 providers
Bigfork	80.9%	9 providers
Billings	97.0%	12 providers
Bozeman	92.2%	18 providers
Browning	0.0%	6 providers
Butte	90.5%	11 providers
Clancy	82.7%	11 providers
Columbia Falls	86.8%	10 providers
Columbus	51.9%	12 providers
Corvallis	38.7%	11 providers
Cut Bank	0.0%	8 providers
Deer Lodge	60.0%	8 providers
Dillon	76.3%	8 providers
East Helena	83.8%	10 providers
Eureka	100.0%	6 providers
Florence	85.4%	12 providers
Glasgow	90.9%	6 providers
Glendive	0.0%	7 providers
Great Falls	93.1%	13 providers
Hamilton	61.1%	11 providers
Hardin	3.3%	9 providers
Havre	94.6%	11 providers
Helena	87.6%	11 providers
Kalispell	83.9%	10 providers
Laurel	90.0%	9 providers
Lewistown	1.1%	9 providers
Libby	0.0%	8 providers
Livingston	72.9%	9 providers
Lolo	93.2%	11 providers
Manhattan	45.5%	12 providers
Miles City	4.9%	10 providers
Missoula	96.3%	15 providers
Polson	89.3%	9 providers
Ronan	63.6%	8 providers
Roundup	0.0%	6 providers
Shelby	0.0%	10 providers
Sidney	2.5%	8 providers
Stevensville	7.9%	10 providers
Townsend	14.9%	8 providers
Whitefish	81.9%	9 providers
Wolf Point	53.1%	6 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.

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