Download Report: Most Recent Internet Access Services Data Released by the FCC

This report summarizes information about Internet access connections in the United States as of December 31, 2014, and also as of June 30, 2014, as collected by FCC Form 477. We are not releasing a separate report on status as of June 2014.1 For purposes of this report, Internet access connections are those in service, over 200 kilobits per second (kbps) in at least one direction, and reported to the FCC through Form 477.2

The report includes data on total and residential Internet access connections by downstream and upstream speed, by technology, by geography, and over time. Previous reports presented data on connections with downstream speeds of at least 3 Mbps and upload speeds of at least 768 kbps.3 We have maintained those figures in this report4 for the sake of data continuity but may discontinue them in future reports as we move to present more data on connections with speeds of at least 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream. Section 2 of the report presents nationwide statistics, Section 3 provides state-level data, and Section 4 includes data on the subscribership differences among counties and census tracts.5 In addition, Section 5 of the report includes an analysis of the correlations between subscribership ratios and various demographic measures.6 Maps depicting the number of fixed connections per 1,000 households by census tract and the number of fixed providers by census block are available online at https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/internet-access-services-reports/internet-access-services- reports.

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