Kemper County is better served than most rural counties. Fiber already reaches 97.2% of locations, so the first question is not what to buy but whether fiber has reached your road.
Everything below comes from the FCC's Broadband Data Collection, the filings providers are legally required to make about where they offer service. It describes the county; your own address can differ, and that is exactly why the technology mix matters.
Where Kemper County sits in Mississippi
Share of addresses with no fixed broadband at 25/3 Mbps
0.0% to 0.1%
0.1% to 0.2%
0.2% to 0.7%
0.7% to 3.0%
3.0% to 8.3%
8.3% to 19%
19% and above
not published
This county is outlined. Darker means a larger share of addresses with no fixed broadband. Select any county to open it.
What reaches homes in Kemper County
Locations covered by each technology, out of 5,213 broadband serviceable locations. An address can be reached by more than one technology, so these add up to more than 100%.
Fiber5,068 · 97%
Cable25 · 0.5%
Licensed fixed wireless2,781 · 53%
Unlicensed fixed wireless0 · 0.0%
DSL over copper0 · 0.0%
Served, underserved, unserved
The FCC's three categories. "Served" means at least 100/20 Mbps is available; "underserved" means at least 25/3 but below 100/20; "unserved" means below 25/3 or nothing at all.
Category
Locations
Share of county
Served
5,138
98.6%
Underserved
7
0.1%
Unserved
68
1.3%
What that means if you live here
The USDA classes Kemper County as a completely rural county, or one with an urban population under 5,000, not adjacent to any metro area (continuum code 9).
Population is around 8,829, which works out to about 1.7 people for every address on the list.
Only 68 locations, 1.3%, are recorded with nothing at 25/3 Mbps or better.
The most widely available technology here is fiber, reaching 5,068 locations (97.2%); next is licensed fixed wireless at 53.3%.
Fiber already reaches 97.2% of the county (5,068 locations), which puts Kemper County well ahead of most rural America.
Licensed fixed wireless covers 53.3% of the county. It does not reach as far as fiber does here, but it reaches places fiber does not.
13 providers file coverage in Kemper County: 4 with fiber, 1 with cable, 4 with licensed fixed wireless.
In twelve months fiber went from 5,040 locations to 5,068 here.
Served locations rose 1.92% year on year.
Fiber is further along here than in most of Mississippi, where the median county reaches 74.5%.
What people actually measure in Mississippi
Median of real speed tests run on each network during 2024, from M-Lab. This is measured performance, not an advertised plan speed, and not a customer review. The middle-half column shows how consistent a network is: a wide spread means your experience depends heavily on where and when.
Network
Median download
Middle half of tests
Median upload
Latency
Tests
AT&T Enterprises
44.5 Mbps
12.1 Mbps to 195 Mbps
15.0 Mbps
33 ms
27,106
Comcast Cable Communications
113 Mbps
45.6 Mbps to 234 Mbps
16.6 Mbps
23 ms
19,762
C Spire Fiber
76.4 Mbps
16.1 Mbps to 201 Mbps
48.2 Mbps
35 ms
15,229
CABLE ONE
123 Mbps
48.4 Mbps to 234 Mbps
24.9 Mbps
23 ms
10,001
BCI Mississippi Broadband
97.4 Mbps
42.6 Mbps to 147 Mbps
9.3 Mbps
29 ms
5,742
TEC of Jackson
78.4 Mbps
22.5 Mbps to 193 Mbps
35.8 Mbps
32 ms
2,583
Tombigbee Fiber
98.6 Mbps
74.8 Mbps to 221 Mbps
77.4 Mbps
31 ms
1,567
Verizon Business
17.7 Mbps
5.0 Mbps to 55.7 Mbps
3.2 Mbps
44 ms
1,532
CoastConnect
175 Mbps
56.8 Mbps to 322 Mbps
116 Mbps
23 ms
1,434
4-County Electric Power Association
177 Mbps
83.8 Mbps to 249 Mbps
92.7 Mbps
30 ms
1,379
Cellular networks, measured
The same measurement for the mobile networks behind 5G home internet. These tests come from phones as well as home gateways, so treat them as an indication of network health in the state rather than a home-internet plan speed.
Network
Median download
Middle half of tests
Median upload
Latency
Tests
T-Mobile USA
58.4 Mbps
18.2 Mbps to 125 Mbps
5.0 Mbps
61 ms
463
Latency is the number that decides whether video calls and gaming feel right, and it is where satellite differs most from everything else. Measured data is statewide: below county level there are usually too few tests to report an honest number.
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Your realistic options in Kemper County
Fiber
Fiber, if it has reached you
The best outcome by a distance: symmetric speed, low latency, no weather sensitivity, no data ceiling in practice.
Best for
Anyone whose address is inside a fiber build. Always check this first.
Watch out
Coverage stops abruptly at the edge of a build. Being a mile from fiber is the same as being fifty.
Fixed wireless
A local fixed-wireless provider
A regional operator beaming service from a tower or ridge to an antenna on your roof. In much of rural America this is the fastest thing available.
Best for
Counties where the FCC data shows large licensed fixed-wireless coverage, which this page tells you
Watch out
Needs line of sight. Quality varies enormously between operators; ask neighbours, not the sales page.
5G home internet
T-Mobile Home Internet
Home internet over T-Mobile’s cellular network. A gateway box you plug in yourself; no truck roll, no dish.
Best for
Rural addresses that still get a usable T-Mobile signal, often near a highway or a town
Watch out
Availability is decided address by address, not by town. Speed varies with how busy the local tower is.