Arthur Menko

The fifth installment of USTelecom’s Broadband Pricing Index (BPI) shows that prices for high-speed broadband internet services continue to decline— even as upload and download speeds rapidly advance. Thanks to the world-leading pace of broadband infrastructure investment by the U.S. private sector1 and an intensive focus on fiber deployments, consumers have never had a stronger value proposition for their connectivity dollar. Key findings from the report include: 

The fifth installment of USTelecom’s Broadband Pricing Index (BPI) shows that prices for high-speed broadband internet services continue to decline—even as upload and download speeds rapidly advance. Key findings include:

• 55% of broadband customers choose 100-940 Mbps service ("BPI-Speed")
• BPI-Speed prices dropped 9.4% in the last year and 60% since 2015

Using Federal Communications Commission and other public data sources to assess recent trends in residential fixed broadband pricing in the United States. The analysis reveals continued substantial price reductions for both the most popular and highest-speed broadband internet services. The data show consumers are also benefiting from marked increases in the speeds they receive for their broadband dollar.

Using Federal Communications Commission and other public data sources, this report assesses recent trends in residential fixed broadband pricing between 2015 and 2020 in the United States. The key findings: