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

15%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

29.9

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

37th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

88.2%

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

79.4%

of Nebraskans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

18.4%

of Nebraskans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

97.1%

of Nebraskans have access to wireline service.

22.4%

of Nebraskans have access to fiber-optic service.

79.0%

of Nebraskans have access to cable service.

93.1%

of Nebraskans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Nebraskans have access to mobile broadband service.

93.5%

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.	Malcolm	68.4 MBPS	13 Providers
2.	Gering	58.8 MBPS	10 Providers
3.	Arcadia	56.2 MBPS	8 Providers
4.	Minatare	54.1 MBPS	11 Providers
5.	Anselmo	53.3 MBPS	8 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Nebraska

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Cox Communications	37.0 MBPS
Charter Spectrum	30.0 MBPS
CenturyLink	22.2 MBPS
Rise Broadband	7.6 MBPS
Future Technologies	5.9 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 94.0% of Nebraskans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 175 internet providers in Nebraska.
There are 221,000 people in Nebraska without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 224,000 people in Nebraska that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 55,000 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	91.9%	13 providers
Ashland	72.7%	15 providers
Auburn	80.8%	12 providers
Aurora	2.0%	13 providers
Beatrice	89.4%	8 providers
Bellevue	96.4%	13 providers
Bennington	94.2%	15 providers
Blair	73.6%	10 providers
Broken Bow	81.4%	10 providers
Central City	75.0%	13 providers
Chadron	83.6%	10 providers
Columbus	88.4%	15 providers
Cozad	77.0%	13 providers
Crete	87.8%	12 providers
David City	78.1%	11 providers
Elkhorn	96.8%	12 providers
Fairbury	79.3%	9 providers
Falls City	100.0%	8 providers
Fremont	95.5%	17 providers
Gering	91.2%	10 providers
Gothenburg	84.5%	14 providers
Grand Island	97.7%	21 providers
Gretna	94.9%	17 providers
Hastings	96.5%	13 providers
Holdrege	90.5%	13 providers
Kearney	96.1%	18 providers
La Vista	95.2%	15 providers
Lexington	89.3%	15 providers
Lincoln	99.1%	21 providers
Mc Cook	91.8%	14 providers
Minden	89.2%	14 providers
Nebraska City	85.7%	11 providers
Norfolk	94.3%	13 providers
North Platte	97.8%	16 providers
Ogallala	94.2%	15 providers
Omaha	98.8%	21 providers
Oneill	84.9%	12 providers
Papillion	98.4%	13 providers
Plattsmouth	82.5%	11 providers
Schuyler	31.0%	13 providers
Scottsbluff	96.6%	11 providers
Seward	88.4%	16 providers
Sidney	90.7%	14 providers
South Sioux City	94.5%	10 providers
Valentine	70.0%	11 providers
Wahoo	81.9%	12 providers
Waverly	88.4%	15 providers
Wayne	86.7%	10 providers
West Point	71.1%	16 providers
York	89.8%	12 providers

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Last Updated on 3/6/2019.

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