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Hughesnet internet in Alaska: where it is available
Hughesnet is a satellite service, reported as available at nearly every address in Alaska. The useful question is how it compares with the wired and fixed wireless providers in your town, which the pages linked below list.
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County by county
Hughesnet by county
30 counties with their own page report Hughesnet service. Open any place to see every provider there.
Available 30 counties
Hughesnet reports service to most homes in these counties.
- Aleutians East Borough
- Aleutians West Census Area
- Anchorage Municipality
- Bethel Census Area
- Bristol Bay Borough
- Chugach Census Area
- Copper River Census Area
- Denali Borough
- Dillingham Census Area
- Fairbanks North Star Borough
- Haines Borough
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Area
- Juneau City and Borough
- Kenai Peninsula Borough
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough
- Kodiak Island Borough
- Kusilvak Census Area
- Lake and Peninsula Borough
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Nome Census Area
- North Slope Borough
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- Petersburg Borough
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area
- Sitka City and Borough
- Skagway Municipality
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
- Wrangell City and Borough
- Yakutat City and Borough
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area
Town by town
Hughesnet by town
73 towns and cities with their own page report Hughesnet service. Open any place to see every provider there.
Available 73 towns and cities
Hughesnet reports service to most homes in these towns and cities.
Show all 73 towns and cities
- Anchor Point
- Anchorage
- Badger
- Bear Creek
- Bethel
- Big Lake
- Butte
- Chena Ridge
- Cohoe
- College
- Cordova
- Delta Junction
- Deltana
- Diamond Ridge
- Dillingham
- Eielson AFB
- Ester
- Fairbanks
- Farm Loop
- Farmers Loop
- Fishhook
- Fritz Creek
- Funny River
- Galena
- Gateway
- Goldstream
- Gustavus
- Haines
- Happy Valley
- Healy
- Homer
- Hoonah
- Houston
- Juneau
- Kalifornsky
- Kenai
- Ketchikan
- Knik-Fairview
- Kodiak
- Kotzebue
- Lazy Mountain
- Meadow Lakes
- Metlakatla
- Mill Bay
- Nikiski
- Ninilchik
- Nome
- North Lakes
- North Pole
- Palmer
- Petersburg
- Ridgeway
- Salcha
- Seward
- Sitka
- Skagway
- Soldotna
- South Lakes
- South Van Horn
- Steele Creek
- Sterling
- Susitna North
- Sutton-Alpine
- Talkeetna
- Tanaina
- Tok
- Trapper Creek
- Unalaska
- Utqiagvik
- Valdez
- Wasilla
- Willow
- Wrangell
Technology
What Hughesnet offers
Hughesnet is a satellite service, so the FCC records it as available at nearly every home in Alaska. Satellite plans typically have data limits and higher latency than wired service; call to compare it with the wired and fixed wireless providers listed on each town page.
"Available" means the provider reports service to most homes in the place; "available in some areas" means part of it. Neither says anything about price, plans or how the service performs, and a provider can serve one street and not the next.
Where this comes fromFCC filings and how to check one address
Check service at your address
The figures on this page summarize what providers reported to the FCC for all homes in Alaska. They do not confirm that any provider serves a particular address, and providers' reports can overstate coverage. Two ways to check your own address:
- Search your address on the FCC National Broadband Map.
- Call (815) 934-8169 and we will look up the providers and plans available at your address. We are an independent service, not your provider.
Sources
Provider availability comes from the FCC National Broadband Map (provider filings as of December 30, 2025): a provider is "available" where its filing covers most homes and "available in some areas" where it covers part of them. Household counts come from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS 5-year 2020-2024), which are estimates with margins of error.
- FCC National Broadband Map — Broadband Data Collection public data (D25 filing, released 2026-09-29). Data as of December 30, 2025; retrieved October 9, 2026.
- U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year 2020-2024 estimates (tables B01003, B25001, B19013, B28002). Data as of ACS 5-year 2020-2024; retrieved October 9, 2026.
- U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer Files (town locations) and 2020 Census block files (which county each town lies in). Data as of January 1, 2024 boundaries (Gazetteer); 2020 Census blocks; retrieved October 9, 2026.
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