Internet Access in Utah: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Utah

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Utah Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

95%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

37.2

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

11th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

95.3%

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

92.3%

of Utahns have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

26.3%

of Utahns have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

98.2%

of Utahns have access to wireline service.

28.7%

of Utahns have access to fiber-optic service.

90.1%

of Utahns have access to cable service.

95.4%

of Utahns have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Utahns have access to mobile broadband service.

97.9%

of Utahns have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Utah

CenturyLink vs Xfinity

Frontier vs Xfinity

Top 5 Fastest cities in Utah

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Kamas	65.0 MBPS	11 Providers
2.	Draper	64.8 MBPS	20 Providers
3.	Herriman	63.5 MBPS	16 Providers
4.	Springville	61.2 MBPS	19 Providers
5.	Park City	57.3 MBPS	17 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Utah

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Connext	55.5 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	46.8 MBPS
CenturyLink	20.6 MBPS
Utah Broadband	10.3 MBPS
Rise Broadband	7.1 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, The State of Utah Broadband Project has been awarded $5,196,025 in federal grants for Utah's Broadband Initiative.
Another $31,048,683, accounting for 0.9% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Utah.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 90.2% to 97.1% of Utahns.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 131 internet providers in Utah.
There are 139,000 people in Utah without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 219,000 people in Utah that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 53,000 people in Utah 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.

Utah CITIES


Alpine	96.6%	17 providers
American Fork	98.4%	20 providers
Beaver	2.1%	10 providers
Blanding	43.5%	8 providers
Bountiful	99.1%	19 providers
Brigham City	96.3%	18 providers
Cedar City	91.4%	15 providers
Centerville	100.0%	21 providers
Clearfield	95.7%	20 providers
Delta	60.6%	7 providers
Draper	100.0%	20 providers
Eagle Mountain	99.5%	17 providers
Eden	56.6%	11 providers
Ephraim	98.0%	11 providers
Farmington	94.8%	17 providers
Garland	89.1%	15 providers
Grantsville	90.9%	13 providers
Heber City	89.9%	15 providers
Helper	97.7%	11 providers
Herriman	98.4%	16 providers
Hooper	95.2%	13 providers
Hurricane	95.8%	16 providers
Hyde Park	98.0%	17 providers
Hyrum	96.9%	14 providers
Ivins	91.4%	14 providers
Kamas	99.5%	11 providers
Kanab	87.9%	10 providers
Kaysville	99.2%	17 providers
La Verkin	99.8%	14 providers
Layton	97.3%	20 providers
Lehi	98.8%	20 providers
Lindon	100.0%	25 providers
Logan	97.1%	21 providers
Magna	99.8%	18 providers
Mapleton	99.0%	19 providers
Midvale	99.4%	20 providers
Midway	89.4%	13 providers
Moab	92.7%	11 providers
Morgan	91.6%	11 providers
Mount Pleasant	84.5%	7 providers
Nephi	92.2%	11 providers
North Salt Lake	99.7%	17 providers
Ogden	96.2%	20 providers
Orem	99.2%	24 providers
Park City	89.0%	17 providers
Payson	91.2%	16 providers
Pleasant Grove	98.2%	23 providers
Price	92.6%	12 providers
Providence	99.3%	14 providers
Provo	99.8%	23 providers
Richfield	53.2%	9 providers
Riverton	99.0%	22 providers
Roosevelt	77.5%	6 providers
Roy	98.0%	14 providers
Saint George	94.0%	19 providers
Salem	98.2%	15 providers
Salt Lake City	99.2%	34 providers
Sandy	98.7%	21 providers
Santa Clara	99.8%	14 providers
Santaquin	89.1%	13 providers
Saratoga Springs	97.9%	19 providers
Smithfield	85.3%	14 providers
South Jordan	98.7%	20 providers
Spanish Fork	91.1%	18 providers
Springville	95.9%	19 providers
Syracuse	99.9%	15 providers
Tooele	95.9%	14 providers
Tremonton	69.3%	16 providers
Vernal	95.4%	8 providers
Washington	95.1%	15 providers
Wellsville	75.7%	15 providers
West Jordan	98.2%	21 providers
Woods Cross	99.1%	20 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.