Internet Access in North Dakota: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN North Dakota

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

North Dakota Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

92%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

30%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

28.6

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

18th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

92.9%

of North Dakotans have access to wired broadband 25mbps or faster.

90.2%

of North Dakotans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

67.8%

of North Dakotans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

96.3%

of North Dakotans have access to wireline service.

40.6%

of North Dakotans have access to fiber-optic service.

67.4%

of North Dakotans have access to cable service.

70.6%

of North Dakotans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of North Dakotans have access to mobile broadband service.

48.5%

of North Dakotans have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In North Dakota

Cable ONE vs CenturyLink

Top 5 Fastest cities in North Dakota

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Grand Forks	46.1 MBPS	12 Providers
2.	Valley City	35.4 MBPS	11 Providers
3.	Wahpeton	32.1 MBPS	10 Providers
4.	West Fargo	31.9 MBPS	14 Providers
5.	Fargo	30.4 MBPS	18 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in North Dakota

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
BEK Communications Cooperative	41.5 MBPS
Cable ONE	32.6 MBPS
SRT Communications	27.0 MBPS
702 Communications	21.4 MBPS
CenturyLink	7.0 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, North Dakota Broadband has been awarded $3,664,087 in federal grants for North Dakota's Broadband Initiative.
Another $10,781,157, accounting for 0.3% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in North Dakota.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 78.8% to 94.4% of North Dakotans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 97 internet providers in North Dakota.
There are 49,000 people in North Dakota without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 180,000 people in North Dakota that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 25,000 people in North Dakota 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.

North Dakota CITIES


Belcourt	99.7%	6 providers
Bismarck	97.2%	12 providers
Devils Lake	99.3%	7 providers
Dickinson	100.0%	10 providers
Fargo	99.0%	18 providers
Grafton	79.9%	10 providers
Grand Forks	93.6%	12 providers
Jamestown	98.3%	9 providers
Mandan	91.0%	8 providers
Minot	92.6%	8 providers
Minot Afb	83.3%	8 providers
Rugby	100.0%	8 providers
Valley City	99.9%	11 providers
Wahpeton	81.2%	10 providers
West Fargo	98.6%	14 providers
Williston	94.9%	9 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.

Internet Service in North Dakota