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.

87%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

20%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

35.9

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

39th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

87.1%

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

81.2%

of Nebraskans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

20.8%

of Nebraskans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

96.1%

of Nebraskans have access to wireline service.

24.4%

of Nebraskans have access to fiber-optic service.

79.0%

of Nebraskans have access to cable service.

86.5%

of Nebraskans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Nebraskans have access to mobile broadband service.

93.6%

of Nebraskans have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Nebraska

CenturyLink vs Cox

Spectrum vs CenturyLink

Sparklight vs CenturyLink

Spectrum vs Frontier

Top 5 Fastest cities in Nebraska

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Royal	117.2 MBPS	7 Providers
2.	Bennington	100.1 MBPS	15 Providers
3.	Hoskins	91.3 MBPS	12 Providers
4.	Elkhorn	78.4 MBPS	12 Providers
5.	Harrison	76.2 MBPS	12 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Nebraska

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Cox Communications	58.4 MBPS
Charter Spectrum	36.8 MBPS
CenturyLink	27.5 MBPS
Rise Broadband	10.8 MBPS
Future Technologies	10.3 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 92.7% of Nebraskans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 182 internet providers in Nebraska.
There are 216,000 people in Nebraska without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 298,000 people in Nebraska that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 74,000 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


Alliance	92.0%	13 providers
Ashland	73.7%	15 providers
Auburn	81.4%	12 providers
Aurora	2.0%	14 providers
Beatrice	89.4%	8 providers
Bellevue	96.6%	13 providers
Bennington	94.2%	15 providers
Blair	76.9%	10 providers
Broken Bow	84.2%	10 providers
Central City	74.7%	13 providers
Chadron	83.8%	10 providers
Columbus	88.4%	14 providers
Cozad	77.0%	13 providers
Crete	88.0%	12 providers
David City	78.2%	11 providers
Elkhorn	98.0%	12 providers
Fairbury	80.0%	9 providers
Falls City	100.0%	8 providers
Fremont	96.2%	16 providers
Gering	91.2%	10 providers
Gothenburg	84.5%	14 providers
Grand Island	97.7%	20 providers
Gretna	95.4%	17 providers
Hastings	96.5%	12 providers
Holdrege	90.5%	13 providers
Kearney	96.1%	18 providers
La Vista	95.2%	15 providers
Lexington	89.3%	15 providers
Lincoln	99.2%	21 providers
Mc Cook	91.6%	15 providers
Minden	89.4%	14 providers
Nebraska City	98.4%	12 providers
Norfolk	93.6%	12 providers
North Platte	97.8%	16 providers
Ogallala	94.2%	16 providers
Omaha	98.9%	21 providers
Oneill	84.7%	11 providers
Papillion	98.4%	13 providers
Plattsmouth	91.1%	12 providers
Schuyler	31.0%	13 providers
Scottsbluff	96.6%	11 providers
Seward	89.1%	16 providers
Sidney	90.7%	14 providers
South Sioux City	94.1%	10 providers
Valentine	70.0%	11 providers
Wahoo	82.0%	12 providers
Waverly	88.4%	15 providers
Wayne	86.7%	8 providers
West Point	70.5%	14 providers
York	89.9%	11 providers

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Last Updated on 1/8/2020.

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