{"id":71331,"date":"2025-08-10T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71331\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T01:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:54:08","slug":"broadband-competition-report-most-americans-have-more-than-one-wired-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71331\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband Competition Report: Most Americans Have More than One Wired Option\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks who feel it is vital to have access to two wired internet providers should look for a home in New Jersey, while those who don\u2019t care may be happy in Alaska, according to a broadband competition report from Reviews.org. In either case, these people \u2014 and folks in the other 48 states \u2014 are far likelier to have at least two wired options than to live in a wired monopoly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany leading states (such as Utah, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island) were early fiber internet adopters,\u201d said Brianne Sandorf, a staff writer for Reviews.org and author of the report, in a prepared statement about the broadband competition report. \u201cThat\u2019s thanks to municipal-run networks, early rollouts of Verizon Fios across the East Coast, and state broadband initiatives \u2014 mainly in pockets of high population density.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandorf pointed out that many of the high-performing states are closely tied to the technology sector. She said that it is a surprise that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecompetitor.com\/new-jersey-board-of-public-utilities-approves-40m-in-broadband-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New Jersey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecompetitor.com\/gonetspeed-announces-expansion-of-fiber-network-to-east-haven-connecticut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Connecticut<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecompetitor.com\/utopia-fiber-completes-bountiful-city-utah-fiber-network-ahead-of-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Utah<\/a> finished ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecompetitor.com\/vero-fiber-to-launch-service-in-arcata-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">California<\/a>, home of Silicon Valley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are the 10 states with the highest level of broadband competition. To measure competitiveness, researchers looked at the percentage of customers in the state that have at least two wired broadband providers from which to choose:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-08-at-1.28.43-PM-1024x775.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166843\"  \/>Source: The U.S. Internet Monopoly Map: States and Cities With the Least Internet Competition<\/p>\n<p>And the 10 least competitive states:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-08-at-1.31.46-PM-1024x714.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166844\"  \/>Source: The U.S. Internet Monopoly Map: States and Cities With the Least Internet Competition<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also listed the rankings for more than 300 metro areas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-08-at-1.34.44-PM-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166845\"  \/>Source: The U.S. Internet Monopoly Map: States and Cities With the Least Internet Competition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Folks who feel it is vital to have access to two wired internet providers should look for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,38880,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-71331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-market-research","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}