Montana's Broadband: Stats & Figures

BROADBAND IN Montana

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Montana Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

68%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

28%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

21.8

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

50th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

73.0%

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

63.1%

of Montanans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

1.9%

of Montanans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

95.5%

of Montanans have access to wireline service.

10.8%

of Montanans have access to fiber-optic service.

64.5%

of Montanans have access to cable service.

90.9%

of Montanans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

99.1%

of Montanans have access to mobile broadband service.

70.6%

of Montanans have access to fixed wireless service.

Top 5 Fastest Cities In Montana

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Whitefish

38.8 MBPS

38.8">%

Columbia Falls

36.3 MBPS

36.3">%

Miles City

33.5 MBPS

33.5">%

Belgrade

29.3 MBPS

29.3">%

Great Falls

26.2 MBPS

26.2">%

Largest Competing Providers In Montana

Charter Spectrum vs CenturyLink

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 85.4% of Montanans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 117 broadband providers in Montana.
There are 277,000 people in Montana without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 241,000 people in Montana that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 46,000 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


Billings	97.0%	18 providers
Bozeman	92.1%	25 providers
Butte	90.5%	12 providers
Great Falls	93.1%	15 providers
Helena	86.5%	14 providers
Kalispell	82.2%	10 providers
Missoula	96.3%	21 providers

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Last Updated on 10/10/2017.