Internet Access in North Dakota: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN North Dakota

North Dakota Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

92%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

30%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

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.

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.

100.0%

of North Dakotans have access to mobile broadband service.

48.5%

of North Dakotans have access to fixed wireless service.

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
BEK Communications Cooperative	41.9 MBPS
Cable ONE	33.0 MBPS
702 Communications	20.3 MBPS
North Dakota Telephone Company	17.8 MBPS
CenturyLink	7.1 MBPS

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.

In total there are 99 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.

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.