Top 100
Broadband Communities is accepting nominations for the 2025 Top 100 through August 15. Here’s why your organization should enter.
The broadband industry is no longer a back-office utility sector where technical teams quietly build networks and marketing quietly follows. It’s a crowded, capital-hungry marketplace where credibility, visibility and proven impacts open doors to funding, partnerships, and also customers.
Click here to access our entry form for the 2025 Broadband Communities Top 100!
For any ISP, vendor, municipal network, or developer with ambition in 2025, entering the Broadband Communities Top 100 is less a vanity play and more a strategic investment: a fast, inexpensive way to convert operational achievements into market advantage, policy influence and new business opportunities.
Broadband Communities is accepting nominations for the 2025 Top 100 through August 15, 2025 — a narrow window that should make this year’s decision an urgent priority for leaders across the sector.
Why the Top 100 matters now
Broadband Communities is a valued industry platform that convenes people who matter in community connectivity: municipal leaders, property owners and managers, network builders, solution vendors, and the buying teams for public broadband projects.
Inclusion in the Top 100 list flags your company as a recognized player to a concentrated set of decision-makers.
What the editors actually look for — and how to frame your case
Broadband Communities’ Top 100 selection has historically favored organizations that move the needle. This year, nominations have been open since June.
The editorial approach of the list also rewards measurable impact. Factors considered can include items like miles of fiber laid, percentage of units or households connected, innovative financing structures, partnerships that unlock public funding, or technologies that materially lower cost or increase capacity. Present your nomination with crisp, verifiable metrics and a narrative that ties technical accomplishments to community outcomes (jobs created, businesses enabled, telehealth or education outcomes, emergency-services resilience).
What to expect if you’re selected
Expect earned-media coverage and an editorial profile that becomes a durable symbol of success. The Top 100 spot can accelerate credibility with the very constituencies that matter in 2025 — funders, municipal buyers, property owners, and large enterprise customers — while providing a storytelling asset the whole company can deploy.
Additionally, the most successful nominees transform that exposure into concrete outcomes: new deals, faster approvals, recruitment wins, and improved investor conversations.
AI tools from Noah Wire Services contributed to this report, which was edited by Broadband Communities Editor Brad Randall.
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