Internet providers in Broadwater County, Montana
As of June 2026, providers reported wired internet of 100/20 Mbps or faster to 29.1% of the 3,946 units in Broadwater County, Montana, which includes Townsend: fewer than 1 in 3 of the county's units, against 78.5% across Montana. At 25/3 Mbps the wired figure is 35.7%. Starlink reported service to more than 99.9% of units, and 9 other providers, not counting the three large satellite providers, reported residential service at some speed.
FCC data as of June 2026, files of October 2026.
At a glance
| As reported to the FCC | Broadwater County | Montana |
|---|---|---|
| Units, as the FCC counts them | 3,946 | 613,320 |
| Units the FCC classes as rural | 100.0% | 50.0% |
| Wired service at any speed | 49.9% | 90.5% |
| Wired service of 25/3 Mbps or more | 35.7% | 82.1% |
| Wired service of 100/20 Mbps or more | 29.1% | 78.5% |
| Wired gigabit (1000/100 Mbps or more) | 11.3% | 38.8% |
| Fiber, 100/20 or more | 11.4% | 43.6% |
| Cable, 100/20 or more | 22.0% | 55.7% |
| Copper (DSL and similar), 25/3 or more | 6.6% | 12.9% |
| Licensed fixed wireless, 100/20 or more | 20.8% | 42.5% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless, 100/20 or more | 0.0% | 31.7% |
| Any non-satellite service, 100/20 or more | 41.2% | 87.7% |
| Starlink (low-orbit satellite) | more than 99.9% | more than 99.9% |
| Geostationary satellite, 25/3 or more | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Other providers | 9 | 44 |
Other providers: providers that report residential fixed service in the county at any speed, apart from the three large satellite providers, which report service in nearly every county. Fixed wireless providers count too, so this is not a count of wired providers.
Wired service
Cable reached 22.0% of units at 100/20 or more, and fiber 11.4%. Wired gigabit service (1000/100 Mbps or more) reached 11.3% of units. Wired service of any speed reached 49.9% of units, against 29.1% at 100/20. If you have a wired connection now and are thinking about satellite, see Leaving a wired ISP.
Fixed wireless
Fixed wireless, from antennas on towers, reached 20.8% of units at 100/20, all of it on licensed spectrum; with wired service, 41.2% had a non-satellite option at that speed.
Satellite
Starlink, a low-orbit satellite service, reported service to more than 99.9% of the county's units. Geostationary satellite service of 25/3 Mbps or more was reported for 100.0% of units.
Other providers
Other providers: providers that report residential fixed service in the county at any speed, apart from the three large satellite providers, which report service in nearly every county. Fixed wireless providers count too, so this is not a count of wired providers. In Broadwater County there were 9.
Places in Broadwater County
The Census Bureau lists these places in Broadwater County: incorporated places (cities, towns, villages and boroughs) and census-designated places, unincorporated communities whose boundaries it draws for statistics. Beside each is its count of other providers, as defined above, for the whole place.
Incorporated places:
- Townsend: 6 other providers
Census-designated places:
- Radersburg: 3 other providers
- Spokane Creek: 3 other providers
- The Silos: 5 other providers
- Toston: 3 other providers
- Wheatland: 5 other providers
- Winston: 1 other provider
How Broadwater County compares
Across Montana, 82.1% of units had wired service of 25/3 Mbps or more and 78.5% had 100/20 or more; across the US, 93.8% and 93.1%. Broadwater County's figures are lower than both at each speed. With fixed wireless included, the share of units with a non-satellite option of 100/20 Mbps or more was 41.2% here, 87.7% across Montana and 96.4% across the US. Among the 2,858 counties of 3,000 units or more in the 50 states and DC, Broadwater County has the 39th-lowest share of units with wired 100/20 service. The FCC classes every unit in Broadwater County as rural.
Every county on this site is in the county list, by state, with its own figures.
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The FCC's National Broadband Map shows what providers report at one address. This page gives county totals and never asks for an address.
About these numbers
The FCC counts units, not buildings: an apartment or condo building is one location in its data, and each of its units is counted. Each share is of the units where providers reported residential service at that speed or faster, by the most they advertise; none of it is a measured speed. Wired means copper (DSL and similar), cable and fiber, and any non-satellite service is the FCC's Any Terrestrial group, wired and fixed wireless together. The FCC's files don't define some of their own terms: how the FCC draws rural, what its lowest speed tier (this page's "any speed") covers beyond its name, how a provider's share of a county's units is counted, and whether licensed-by-rule fixed wireless sits with the licensed or the unlicensed group. The rule that chose the counties is under How the counties were chosen, and the FCC's map is the place to check one address.
Source data: FCC Broadband Data Collection, National Broadband Map, availability as of June 2026 as reported by internet providers (FCC files of October 2026). This product uses FCC APIs and/or Data but is not endorsed or certified by the FCC.
Places: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 FIPS codes for places (file of February 2023); the town named in the page's first sentence is the county's only incorporated place.