FCC Releases Data on Internet Access Services as of June 30, 2019

This report summarizes information about Internet access connections in the United States as of June 30, 2019 as collected by Federal Communications Commission Form 477. 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. Total Internet connections increased by about 4.7% between June 2018 and June 2019 to 449 million. Mobile Internet connections increased 5.1% year-over-year to 336 million in June 2019, while fixed connections grew to 113 million—up about 3.3% from June 2018. [For context, the US Census Bureau estimated that there were approximately 120.8 million households in June 2019.] At the time, 57% of the fixed connections were at least 100 Mbps download, just over 21% were between 25 and 100 Mbps, and 12% were between 10 and 25 Mbps. Nearly 60% were at least 6 Mbps upload, 20% were 3 to 6 Mbps, and 13.2% were 1-3 Mbps. The median downstream speed of all reported fixed connections was 100 Mbps and the median upstream speed was 10 Mbps. For residential fixed connections, the median downstream speed was 100 Mbps and the median upstream speed was 10 Mbps.