As $42.5 billion in federal funding makes it way to the states to be translated into infrastructure deployment projects, Ookla recently assessed how the 50 U.S. states stand in terms of delivery of broadband speeds.
Ookla examined its Speedtest data for broadband services in terms of the percentage of Speedtest users in a state who experienced at least 100 Mbps downlink/20 Mbps uplink speeds—the Federal Communications Commission’s new minimum standard for broadband. That standard was upgraded earlier this year from the previous standard of 25/3 Mbps, which had been in place for nearly a decade.
The company used Ookla Speedtest data from the first half of 2024.
States with the highest percentage of users seeing ‘broadband’ speeds
Among the top five states, most were relatively small Northeastern states. The state of Connecticut had the highest percentage of Ookla Speedtest users, 65.8%, experiencing network speeds of at least 100/20 Mbps. Maryland (63.7%), Delaware (63.3%) and Rhode Island (62.7%) rounded out the top five spots. But North Dakota was a successful outlier: a geographically large and mostly rural state that came in with the second-highest percentage of Speedtest users getting 100/20 Mbps speeds, at 65.5%.
“While comparing small, densely populated states with larger, sparsely populated states may seem unfair, we thought it was important to note the current performance of each state so we can track their progress in future reports,” Ookla noted in its blog post on the analysis.
The next four states with the highest percentage of Speedtest users who received at least the FCC minimum …
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