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  "description": "Ookla speed test data shows rural residents still lag behind their urban counterparts in connectivity.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-05-20T17:07:28.000Z",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, May 20, 2025 – As of June 2024, about 94 percent of homes and businesses had access to broadband through at least one provider, according to a new report from the Federal Communications Commission.\n\nThe agency released Friday its _Internet Access Services report_, which summarizes data submitted by ISPs on connections and availability.\n\nThe number is consistent with internet access reports from the last year – the agency produces them twice annually. Past versions of the report have measured access by units within a broadband serviceable location, like apartments within a building, while Friday’s measured at the location level. The number of unserved units had been declining – it was 8 percent in 2022 and 6 percent in December 2023.\n\nThe U.S. has about 127 million residential households, according to the Census Bureau.\n\nThe report found that 26 percent of locations had access to only one broadband provider, while the remaining 64 percent had two or three options.\n\nThe report did not break out residential versus business locations for its availability metrics, but the FCC found in a more comprehensive _marketplace report_ earlier this year that, as of December 2023, about 5 percent of households lacked terrestrial broadband access and about 29 percent had access to only one provider.\n\nThe FCC’s analysis comes after a _report from Ookla_, which crowdsources speed test data, found that rural households specifically were still lagging in connectivity. The company found that in 32 states, that gap between urban and rural users with high-speed broadband increased in 2024.\n\nThe state with the largest gap was Washington, where 68 percent of urban users experienced speeds of at least 100/20 megabits per second, compared to 31 percent of rural users.\n\n“It’s likely the demise of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which provided discounted broadband services to more than 23 million low-income U.S. households, contributed to this expansion of the digital divide,” the company wrote.\n\nThe FCC also found that fixed broadband connections were increasing, hitting 132.6 million as of June 2024. The share of higher speed connections was also increasing, with 26 percent of those fixed connections advertising speeds of at least 940 megabits per second download, up from 24 percent in December 2023.\n\nMarket concentration was much higher at the Census tract level than in the nation overall, although that number ticked up from December 2023.\n\n“These differences suggest that many providers are regional and serve relatively small geographic areas,” the agency wrote.\n\nMobile lines were also steadily increasing, up to more than 416.1 million from 413.3 million.",
  "title": "FCC Report: 94 Percent of Locations Have Broadband Access",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T03:29:11.069Z"
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