Arthur Menko

USTelecom’s annual Broadband Pricing Index (BPI) finds that year over year, real prices for the most popular internet services (100–940 Mbps) fell 6.0%, while gigabit plans declined 4.9%.2 Over the longer term, prices for the internet services most households buy today have fallen 43.6% since 2014,3 even as other mainstay consumer goods and services have risen 36%. Average download speeds, meanwhile, have surged 21.9% year over year and 145% since 2014. For the first time, the report breaks out pricing across three speed bands within the 100–940 Mbps range.

In a period where every dollar counts for most Americans, consumer broadband services are delivering another year of declining prices and faster speeds. This sixth edition of USTelecom’s Broadband Pricing Index shows U.S. broadband services have continued a long-running trend of pairing faster speeds with lower bills. These price declines stand in sharp contrast to overall U.S. inflation, which stood at 2.4 percent from March 2024 to March 2025. The continued progress of broadband affordability and quality over the past year adds to a 10-year record of soaring consumer value.

The fifth installment of USTelecom’s Broadband Pricing Index (BPI) shows that prices for high-speed broadband internet services continue to decline— even as upload and download speeds rapidly advance. Thanks to the world-leading pace of broadband infrastructure investment by the U.S. private sector1 and an intensive focus on fiber deployments, consumers have never had a stronger value proposition for their connectivity dollar. Key findings from the report include: 

The fifth installment of USTelecom’s Broadband Pricing Index (BPI) shows that prices for high-speed broadband internet services continue to decline—even as upload and download speeds rapidly advance. Key findings include:

• 55% of broadband customers choose 100-940 Mbps service ("BPI-Speed")
• BPI-Speed prices dropped 9.4% in the last year and 60% since 2015

Using Federal Communications Commission and other public data sources to assess recent trends in residential fixed broadband pricing in the United States. The analysis reveals continued substantial price reductions for both the most popular and highest-speed broadband internet services. The data show consumers are also benefiting from marked increases in the speeds they receive for their broadband dollar.

Using Federal Communications Commission and other public data sources, this report assesses recent trends in residential fixed broadband pricing between 2015 and 2020 in the United States. The key findings: