Broadband Communities has released its 2025 Top 100 list, cataloging the most influential and fastest-moving players across fiber, fixed wireless and satellite deployments. The roster underscores the BEAD-fueled momentum shaping the broadband sector this year.
Among the featured organizations, DigitalC in Cleveland marked a milestone by connecting its 6,000th home, while Nextlink Internet expanded into rural markets with multiple fiber deployments and opened a Digital Empowerment Center in Seward, Nebraska, offering digital literacy and coding education to youth.
Other notable entries include GeoLinks expanding its ClearFiber footprint, Traverse City Light & Power’s TCLP Fiber project nearing completion to improve smart-grid reliability, and AccessParks delivering 1,000 Mbps to manufactured home communities with dashboards for operators.
At the top of the list, Starlink leads the field, joined by major players like AT&T, Verizon, Google Fiber, and Comcast. The compilation also spotlights incumbents expanding fiber networks, along with regional and tribal-focused outfits such as ASSURED Communications and DETCOG, highlighting a broad spectrum of approaches to closing the digital divide.
The Top 100 for 2025 underscores BEAD’s influence in accelerating deployments, catalyzing partnerships, and driving new models across open-access networks, wholesale arrangements, and multi-gig services. Broadband Communities says the list serves as a reference point for the industry’s momentum in a year of rapid change and investment.
