Agency report
Internet Access Services: Status as of December 31 2024
Federal Communications Commission
- Rows
- 5
- Years
- 2020-2024
- Accessed
- Jul 21, 2026
Canonical indicator / market-hhi
Tracked market HHI
Source-reported or reproducibly calculated HHI anchors from documented market profiles.
Curated marketsHHI (0-10,000)Calendar or release yearLatest available by entity
Snapshot median
4,227Middle of 8 bounded observations- Observations
- 26
- 8 bounded entities
- Coverage
- 2017-2026
- 8 observed periods
- Sources
- 8
- Federal Communications Commission / StatCounter Global Stats
- Exact pair
- r 0.749
- 17 entity-period matches
Indicator dossierMarket HHI26 observations / 2017-2026
01 / Measurement contract
Definition before comparison
The unit, universe, period, and source boundary travel with every observation.
What this series measures
Source-reported or reproducibly calculated HHI anchors from documented market profiles.
HHI remains definition-dependent. Ranking tracked markets is a descriptive screen across separately documented product, geography, and denominator contracts, not a legal market-power comparison.
- Indicator ID
- market-hhi
- Unit
- HHI (0-10,000)
- Observation dimension
- Market
- Grouping field
- Sector
- Period basis
- Calendar or release year
- Ranking contract
- Use the latest available row for each entity
02 / Observed variation
Entity distribution and ranked anchors
Latest available by entity; absent and withheld values do not enter the distribution.
- Minimum
- 1,501
- 25th percentile
- 3,596.5
- Median
- 4,227
- 75th percentile
- 5,080.5
- Maximum
- 7,359
Selected interval3,258.4 to 3,844.23 observations / 37.5% of the snapshot
Ranked reference rowsHHI (0-10,000)
- 01Search enginesus-search-engine-usage / 20267,359
- 02Mobile operating systemsus-mobile-operating-system-usage / 20265,337
- 03Social referralsus-social-media-referral-traffic / 20264,995
- 04AI assistantsus-ai-assistant-usage / 20264,804
- 05Individual insuranceus-aca-individual-health-insurance / 20243,650
- 06Browsersus-browser-usage / 20263,612
- 07Wireless serviceus-mobile-wireless-service / 20233,550
- 08Fixed broadbandus-fixed-broadband-access / 20241,501
03 / Coverage and quality
Where the series has evidence
Observed rows are counted explicitly by period, group, verification status, and confidence level.
Period ledger8 observed periods
20171 entity11 source
20201 entity11 source
20212 entities22 sources
20221 entity11 source
20236 entities66 sources
20246 entities66 sources
20254 entities44 sources
20265 entities55 sources
Evidence stateAll indicator observations
Data status
30.8%Verified / 869.2%Estimated public / 18Confidence
34.6%High / 965.4%Medium / 17SectorLatest bounded snapshot, largest groups first
| Group | Rows | Average | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital platforms | 4 | 5,623.8 | 4,804 to 7,359 |
| Telecommunications | 2 | 2,525.5 | 1,501 to 3,550 |
| Health insurance | 1 | 3,650 | 3,650 to 3,650 |
| Software | 1 | 3,612 | 3,612 to 3,612 |
04 / Exact paired lens
Tracked market HHI and CR4
Same-release HHI and four-firm share anchors for tracked market profiles.
Same entity + same period0.749Pearson correlation across 17 exact pairs
-1 inverse 0 +1 aligned
- Pairing rule
- Same documented market and release year
- Companion indicator
- Market CR4
- Matched current-series rows
- 17 / 26 (65.4%)
- Unpaired current-series rows
- 9; excluded from correlation
Interpretation boundaryOnly common-release observations are paired. Missing sides are excluded rather than forward-filled, and separately defined markets remain descriptive screens rather than interchangeable legal markets.
05 / Source custody
Evidence behind the series
8 source families, 1 contextual reference, and 6 encoded methodology notes.
Public dataset
Mobile operating system market share in United States of America, April 2023-April 2026
StatCounter Global Stats
- Rows
- 4
- Years
- 2023-2026
- Accessed
- Jul 20, 2026
Public dataset
Social media referral share in United States of America, April 2023-April 2026
StatCounter Global Stats
- Rows
- 4
- Years
- 2023-2026
- Accessed
- Jul 20, 2026
Public dataset
Browser market share in United States of America, April 2023-April 2026
StatCounter Global Stats
- Rows
- 4
- Years
- 2023-2026
- Accessed
- Jul 17, 2026
Public dataset
Search engine market share in United States of America, April 2023-April 2026
StatCounter Global Stats
- Rows
- 4
- Years
- 2023-2026
- Accessed
- Jul 17, 2026
Public dataset
AI chatbot market share in United States of America May 2026
StatCounter Global Stats
- Rows
- 1
- Years
- 2026
- Accessed
- Jun 23, 2026
Public dataset
Individual Insurance Market Competition (HHI by state)
KFF
- Rows
- 1
- Years
- 2024
- Accessed
- Jun 23, 2026
Agency report
2024 Communications Marketplace Report
Federal Communications Commission
- Rows
- 3
- Years
- 2017-2023
- Accessed
- May 16, 2026
Contextual reference register
Interpretive context, kept outside source custody.
Legal guidance2023
2023 Merger Guidelines
U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission
- Why linked
- The joint agency guidance describes factors and frameworks the agencies often use when reviewing mergers and acquisitions. It explains why HHI can matter in a merger screen but supplies none of this indicator's market observations.
- Boundary
- The Guidelines are non-binding, and individual matters turn on applicable law and facts. An Antitrust Radar market-HHI row does not establish a relevant market, a structural presumption, liability, or likely competitive effects.
Reusable indicator packetExact rows, stable identifier, and explicit route contract
- Canonical URL
- /indicators/market-hhi
- Indicator filter
- indicator=market-hhi
- License
- Antitrust Radar compilation: CC BY 4.0; upstream terms remain in force
Method notes encoded on rowsNo inferred methodology is substituted
- 01
Use FCC source-reported weighted average HHI; do not infer carrier shares.
- 02
Use the source-reported December national HHI as the annual market-profile anchor; retain subnational medians in the linked geographic series.
- 03
HHI is computed from six named StatCounter shares and a residual Other category that closes coverage to 100 percent.
- 04
HHI is computed from every category in the pinned StatCounter April mobile operating-system row; source labels and rounding are preserved.
- 05
HHI is computed from every category in the pinned StatCounter April social-media row; the denominator is outbound referral traffic to sampled third-party websites.
- 06
Use the KFF source-reported national HHI as a bounded profile anchor and retain the separately reported jurisdiction measures in the linked geography system.
Indicator evidence guardrail
One measure, one contract
This profile documents one bounded indicator at a time. Its ranks, distributions, histories, and paired views remain inside the stated universe, period basis, source, unit, and methodology; they are descriptive research screens, not legal findings or components of a composite score.
HHI remains definition-dependent. Ranking tracked markets is a descriptive screen across separately documented product, geography, and denominator contracts, not a legal market-power comparison.