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.

74%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

25%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

25.0

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

50th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

76.2%

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

67.5%

of Montanans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

2.5%

of Montanans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

96.1%

of Montanans have access to wireline service.

12.5%

of Montanans have access to fiber-optic service.

64.4%

of Montanans have access to cable service.

91.8%

of Montanans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

99.1%

of Montanans have access to mobile broadband service.

75.1%

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.	Ryegate	68.4 MBPS	6 Providers
2.	Terry	66.1 MBPS	6 Providers
3.	Belgrade	48.8 MBPS	12 Providers
4.	Black Eagle	41.4 MBPS	10 Providers
5.	Polson	36.3 MBPS	10 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Montana

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Charter Spectrum	32.3 MBPS
Montana Internet Corporation	10.3 MBPS
CenturyLink	9.9 MBPS
WispWest.net	7.6 MBPS
Cybernet1	4.9 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 87.7% of Montanans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 111 internet providers in Montana.
There are 245,000 people in Montana without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 218,000 people in Montana that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 40,000 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	87.8%	12 providers
Bigfork	86.3%	9 providers
Billings	97.2%	13 providers
Bozeman	94.1%	18 providers
Browning	0.0%	6 providers
Butte	90.6%	12 providers
Clancy	86.6%	11 providers
Columbia Falls	86.1%	10 providers
Columbus	51.9%	12 providers
Corvallis	38.7%	11 providers
Cut Bank	72.2%	9 providers
Deer Lodge	60.2%	8 providers
Dillon	76.3%	8 providers
East Helena	84.0%	10 providers
Eureka	54.6%	6 providers
Florence	85.4%	11 providers
Glasgow	90.9%	6 providers
Glendive	87.2%	7 providers
Great Falls	93.1%	13 providers
Hamilton	63.1%	11 providers
Hardin	3.3%	9 providers
Havre	94.6%	10 providers
Helena	87.7%	12 providers
Kalispell	89.0%	10 providers
Laurel	90.1%	9 providers
Lewistown	69.3%	9 providers
Libby	0.0%	7 providers
Livingston	73.9%	9 providers
Lolo	93.2%	11 providers
Manhattan	45.5%	12 providers
Miles City	89.3%	10 providers
Missoula	96.6%	14 providers
Polson	89.3%	10 providers
Ronan	63.6%	9 providers
Roundup	0.0%	8 providers
Shelby	40.2%	9 providers
Sidney	89.6%	8 providers
Stevensville	29.4%	10 providers
Townsend	14.9%	8 providers
Whitefish	82.4%	10 providers
Wolf Point	53.0%	6 providers

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Last Updated on 11/13/2018.

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