Internet Access in Montana: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Montana

Montana Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

69%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

25%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

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.

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.

99.1%

of Montanans have access to mobile broadband service.

71.9%

of Montanans have access to fixed wireless service.

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Charter Spectrum	24.6 MBPS
CenturyLink	8.6 MBPS
Montana Internet Corporation	6.4 MBPS
MontanaSky Networks	5.7 MBPS
Cybernet1	4.3 MBPS

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.

In total there are 117 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.

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.