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.

72.4%

TERRESTRIAL BROADBAND COVERAGE

0.7%

WIRED LOW-PRICE PLAN ACCESS

37.4

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

50th

STATE BROADBAND ACCESS RANKING

BROADBAND SPEEDS

77.9%

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

70.7%

of Montanans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

5.3%

of Montanans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

96.5%

of Montanans have access to wireline service.

14.8%

of Montanans have access to fiber-optic service.

64.4%

of Montanans have access to cable service.

91.9%

of Montanans have access to DSL service.

Largest Competing Providers In Montana

Spectrum vs CenturyLink

Coverage by County in Montana

County Name	% Broadband Coverage
Beaverhead	79.8%
Big Horn	49.3%
Blaine	96.9%
Broadwater	10.7%
Carbon	34.9%
Carter	51.4%
Cascade	88.8%
Chouteau	98.4%
Custer	92.7%
Daniels	99.2%
Dawson	90.3%
Deer Lodge	77.1%
Fallon	80.0%
Fergus	85.0%
Flathead	88.8%
Gallatin	85.6%
Garfield	47.7%
Glacier	26.0%
Golden Valley	88.9%
Granite	21.2%
Hill	96.3%
Jefferson	42.9%
Judith Basin	82.6%
Lake	69.8%
Lewis and Clark	86.0%
Liberty	84.0%
Lincoln	19.6%
McCone	48.3%
Madison	30.8%
Meagher	98.5%
Mineral	28.3%
Missoula	90.3%
Musselshell	52.3%
Park	56.9%
Petroleum	42.3%
Phillips	84.1%
Pondera	12.3%
Powder River	38.0%
Powell	54.8%
Prairie	61.5%
Ravalli	47.6%
Richland	86.2%
Roosevelt	73.9%
Rosebud	45.7%
Sanders	24.0%
Sheridan	86.4%
Silver Bow	89.7%
Stillwater	62.9%
Sweet Grass	86.7%
Teton	27.0%
Toole	28.5%
Treasure	53.1%
Valley	82.1%
Wheatland	94.8%
Wibaux	7.4%
Yellowstone	94.8%

Internet Speed in Top Montana Cities

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Billings	38.2 MBPS	15 Providers
2.	Missoula	36.3 MBPS	14 Providers
3.	Great Falls	39.0 MBPS	13 Providers
4.	Bozeman	46.4 MBPS	15 Providers
5.	Helena	34.4 MBPS	13 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Montana

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Charter Spectrum	49.7 MBPS
CenturyLink	15.2 MBPS
Montana Internet Corporation	12.8 MBPS
Cybernet1	10.4 MBPS
WispWest.net	9.4 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 90.4% of Montanans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 120 internet providers in Montana.
There are 203,000 people in Montana without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 205,000 people in Montana that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 36,000 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	79.4%	10 providers
Belgrade	89.5%	12 providers
Bigfork	92.3%	9 providers
Billings	97.7%	15 providers
Bozeman	96.3%	15 providers
Browning	0.1%	6 providers
Butte	91.0%	12 providers
Clancy	87.8%	11 providers
Columbia Falls	91.5%	10 providers
Columbus	51.9%	13 providers
Corvallis	41.4%	13 providers
Cut Bank	72.9%	9 providers
Deer Lodge	60.9%	8 providers
Dillon	80.5%	8 providers
East Helena	85.3%	10 providers
Eureka	67.7%	6 providers
Florence	85.7%	12 providers
Glasgow	91.0%	6 providers
Glendive	91.5%	7 providers
Great Falls	93.4%	13 providers
Hamilton	74.6%	12 providers
Hardin	19.8%	9 providers
Havre	95.4%	9 providers
Helena	88.5%	13 providers
Kalispell	94.0%	9 providers
Laurel	90.7%	11 providers
Lewistown	90.2%	9 providers
Libby	0.0%	7 providers
Livingston	74.4%	9 providers
Lolo	93.2%	11 providers
Manhattan	45.5%	12 providers
Miles City	94.6%	9 providers
Missoula	96.8%	14 providers
Polson	96.2%	10 providers
Ronan	65.9%	9 providers
Roundup	53.7%	8 providers
Shelby	37.6%	10 providers
Sidney	94.3%	8 providers
Stevensville	30.3%	12 providers
Townsend	14.9%	8 providers
Whitefish	85.9%	10 providers
Wolf Point	77.0%	6 providers

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Last Updated on 2/6/2020.

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