Internet Access in Nebraska: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Nebraska

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Nebraska Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

82%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

16%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

21.3

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

39th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

85.5%

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

62.4%

of Nebraskans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

17.4%

of Nebraskans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

96.8%

of Nebraskans have access to wireline service.

17.3%

of Nebraskans have access to fiber-optic service.

78.2%

of Nebraskans have access to cable service.

92.5%

of Nebraskans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Nebraskans have access to mobile broadband service.

93.7%

of Nebraskans have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Nebraska

CenturyLink vs Cox

Spectrum vs CenturyLink

Cable ONE vs CenturyLink

Spectrum vs Frontier

Top 5 Fastest cities in Nebraska

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Gering	59.7 MBPS	10 Providers
2.	Elkhorn	35.2 MBPS	13 Providers
3.	North Platte	33.6 MBPS	17 Providers
4.	Bellevue	33.0 MBPS	14 Providers
5.	Lincoln	32.8 MBPS	21 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Nebraska

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Cox Communications	25.6 MBPS
CenturyLink	18.2 MBPS
Rise Broadband	6.2 MBPS
Internet Nebraska Corporation	6.0 MBPS
Future Technologies	4.2 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Nebraska Broadband Initiative has been awarded $5,662,785 in federal grants for Nebraska's Broadband Initiative.
Another $11,547,866, accounting for 0.3% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Nebraska.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 82.7% to 93.0% of Nebraskans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 174 internet providers in Nebraska.
There are 272,000 people in Nebraska without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 231,000 people in Nebraska that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 60,000 people in Nebraska 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.

Nebraska CITIES


Bellevue	97.1%	14 providers
Fremont	92.1%	17 providers
Grand Island	97.5%	21 providers
Kearney	92.3%	16 providers
Lincoln	98.9%	21 providers
Norfolk	89.6%	13 providers
Omaha	98.5%	23 providers
Papillion	97.1%	14 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.