Broadband Technologies

13 broadband connection technologies tracked by the FCC, with 60,659,227 total deployment records.

Technology Code Records Share
Fixed Wireless Licensed 60 32,267,766
53.2%
Fixed Wireless Unlicensed 70 9,599,266
15.8%
Cable 43 4,778,102
7.9%
ADSL 11 3,788,469
6.2%
DSL 10 3,690,571
6.1%
VDSL 12 2,761,502
4.6%
Fiber 50 2,618,693
4.3%
Cable (DOCSIS 3.1) 42 902,050
1.5%
Technology 40 40 86,650
0.1%
Technology 30 30 80,508
0.1%
Cable (DOCSIS 1-2) 20 45,070
0.1%
Cable (DOCSIS 3.0) 41 40,133
0.1%
Other 0 447
0.0%

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.