Internet Access in Utah: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Utah

Utah Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

95%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

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.

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.

100.0%

of Utahns have access to mobile broadband service.

97.9%

of Utahns have access to fixed wireless service.

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.

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.

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.