Broadband Technologies
10 broadband connection technologies tracked by the FCC, with 60,659,227 total deployment records.
According to the Federal Communications Commission's Form 477 fixed broadband deployment data (June 2020), the U.S. broadband market spans these 10 technology categories across 60,659,227 deployment records, from fiber and cable to satellite, which alone accounts for more than 32,000,000 records because satellite providers report availability almost everywhere. See our methodology for how each category is derived.
| Technology | Code | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Satellite | 60 | 32,267,766 | |
| Terrestrial Fixed Wireless | 70 | 9,599,266 | |
| Cable | cable | 5,806,935 | |
| ADSL2+ | 11 | 3,788,469 | |
| DSL | 10 | 3,690,571 | |
| VDSL | 12 | 2,761,502 | |
| Fiber | 50 | 2,618,693 | |
| Other Copper | 30 | 80,508 | |
| Symmetric DSL | 20 | 45,070 | |
| Other | 0 | 447 | |
About Technology Codes
The FCC assigns numeric technology codes to each broadband delivery method. Providers report which technologies they use in each census block via Form 477. The records shown here represent the count of individual deployment filings per technology, not subscriber counts. See our technology comparison guide for a plain-language breakdown.