How the fiber market lookup is built
The lookup is built only from public data: FCC Broadband Data Collection filings as of Dec 31, 2025 (growth from June 30, 2025), the FCC Broadband Funding Map, state BEAD offices and the Census American Community Survey, with every number dated and no score or grade.
No T-Mobile availability checks and no RCLX sales records are used anywhere on the lookup. No FCC location id, coordinate or address is published.
Sources
FCC Broadband Data Collection, Fixed Broadband Summary by Geography
Fiber, cable, cable-only, fiber plus cable, cable gig and fiber growth shares for every city, county and state. Residential units, Total area rows only.
SourceFCC Broadband Data Collection, Provider Summary
Which filers report fiber and nothing else, used to build the provider list.
SourceFCC Broadband Data Collection, Provider Summary by Geography
Where each fiber-only provider filed homes, by county and city.
SourceFCC Broadband Data Collection, Provider List
Holding company names for providers.
SourceFCC Broadband Funding Map
Federal grant programs (RDOF, BEAD, CPF, E-ACAM, ReConnect and others) rolled up to county.
SourceFloridaCommerce Office of Broadband, BEAD program
Florida BEAD award status and county totals.
SourceTexas Broadband Development Office, BEAD program
Texas BEAD award status and county totals.
SourceBroadbandOhio, BEAD program
Ohio BEAD award status and county totals.
SourceU.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
Housing units, single-family share, renter share, median year built and households with no internet subscription.
SourceWhat each measure counts
- Fiber share
- Share of homes where at least one provider filed fiber service. FCC filing as of Dec 31, 2025.
- Cable share
- Share of homes where at least one provider filed cable service. FCC filing as of Dec 31, 2025.
- Cable, no fiber
- Share of homes with cable filed and no fiber filed. A floor: the true share can be higher. FCC filing as of Dec 31, 2025.
- Fiber and cable
- Share of homes with both fiber and cable filed. FCC filing as of Dec 31, 2025.
- Cable advertised at a gig
- Share of cable homes where the cable filing advertises 1000/100 Mbps or faster. Advertised, not measured. FCC filing as of Dec 31, 2025.
- Fiber home growth
- Change in the number of fiber homes between the two filings. FCC filings, June 30, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025.
- Fiber share change
- Change in the fiber share of homes between the two filings, in percentage points. FCC filings, June 30, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025.
- Single-family homes
- Share of housing units that are single-family houses, detached or attached. Census ACS 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024.
- Rented homes
- Share of occupied homes that are rented. Census ACS 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024.
- Typical year built
- Median year the housing units were built. Census ACS 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024.
- No internet subscription
- Share of households with no internet subscription of any kind. Census ACS 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024.
What the numbers cannot say
A location is a building, not a home
The FCC counts broadband serviceable locations, which are buildings. An apartment building is one location with many homes. The lookup counts homes: residential units at residential locations, from the FCC unit count. Business locations are left out everywhere.
Filings run behind the street
The newest filing describes service as of Dec 31, 2025, and the FCC publishes it months later. Construction after that date does not show. Every number on the lookup carries its date for that reason.
Providers report themselves
The FCC publishes what each provider says it can serve. Filings can be challenged and corrected, so a change between two filings can be new construction or a corrected report. The FCC also revised its count of homes between the two filings (the national count fell), so a growth percent and a share change can move differently.
Two June releases
The FCC republished the June 30, 2025 filing. National, state, metro and county June figures come from its Oct 1, 2026 release. City and town June figures come from the Aug 1, 2026 release in 34 states and the Oct 1, 2026 release in the other 17, whichever was newest when the files were pulled.
Cable without fiber is a lower bound
The summary files give fiber, cable, and cable or fiber together. Cable without fiber is the combined figure minus fiber, so it is shown as "at least". It becomes an exact count once the per-technology files are added.
A cable gig is advertised, not delivered
The cable gig measure is the share of cable homes where the cable filing advertises 1000/100 Mbps or faster. That is the advertised tier in the filing, not a measured speed.
Presence is read at 25/3 Mbps
A home counts as having fiber or cable when a filing offers 25/3 Mbps or faster on it, the same speed the growth report uses. The rclx.us city pages read at 100/20, so a share there can differ by a few tenths of a point.
Small areas are not reported
An area under 250 homes shows "too few homes to report", and its home count is left out of the downloads too. Growth needs 1,000 homes in both filings, and a growth percent also needs 250 fiber homes in the June filing; below that the share change still shows, marked "small June base". A provider's share of a county shows only when it stands for 250 or more homes. Grant rows use a building floor instead, because grant files count locations: a row under 50 locations is not counted. Missing data reads "no data", never 0.
Typical means the median area
"Higher than most Florida cities and towns" compares the number with the median city or town in the state, where each area counts once whatever its size. Half the areas sit above the median and half below. "About the same" means within 2 share points for shares, within 1 point for growth percent, and within half a point for share change.
T-Mobile is not counted as fiber from its FCC filer
T-Mobile's main FCC filer reports mostly 5G home internet, so it is never labeled fiber here.
Providers on the lookup
The provider list holds the 150 largest filers whose residential filings are fiber and nothing else. Phone and cable companies that also run fiber are not in it yet, because their fiber needs the per-technology files.
Grants are funded, not built
Grant figures are funded locations from the FCC Broadband Funding Map and the state BEAD lists. The built count is the provider’s own report. Satellite and fixed wireless awards are counted on their own line, because there is no line to the home to sell there.
Census context carries error
Housing, renter and internet subscription figures are ACS 5-year estimates for 2020 to 2024. Estimates for small places have wide margins of error. A median year built of 1939 means 1939 or earlier.
No grades, and why
The lookup never adds the measures into one score, letter or rank. A grade hides which number drove it, and the same number means different things to different people: a lot of cable without fiber is open ground to one reader and a hard pitch to another.
So each measure stands alone with its number, its date and how it compares with the typical area in the state and the country, in plain words. Whether an area is good turf depends first on the agency you sell for, then on these numbers together.
State pages for FL, TX, OH are published first. Every other state is in the lookup as data and opens the same way.
Provider names are used only to identify the networks in public FCC filings. RCLX is not affiliated with them.
First, the streets you get depend on the agency.
Fiber on a filing only pays if the agency you sell for can put you on those streets. Ask any agency these, get the answers in writing, then weigh the numbers on this page.
1. Do you get your own turf?
RCLX’s answer: Every rep works exclusive turf, so two reps are never put on the same street.
2. How is the pay set up?
RCLX’s answer: Reps work as 1099 independent contractors on 100% commission, earned on completed installs.
3. When does the money land?
RCLX’s answer: Commission is paid on the payday RCLX is paid for the install.
4. What happens when a customer cancels?
RCLX’s answer: If a customer cancels within 120 days of the install, the commission on that one sale comes off your next check. After 120 days the install is locked and stays yours.
5. Can you see your own numbers?
RCLX’s answer: Every rep gets a portal that shows their installs, their pipeline and a pay statement for every payday.
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