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Top microwave licensees: October 2026
T-Mobile US leads with 9,564 licensed paths; the top 25 families hold 42,774.
The 25 owner families holding the most licensed point-to-point microwave paths in service, as of 12 October 2026, from FCC ULS records grouped by PathFacts into corporate families. Together they hold 42,774 paths.
By paths in service
1. T-Mobile US (carrier major): 9,564 paths 2. AT&T (carrier major): 4,908 paths 3. Verizon (carrier major): 4,832 paths 4. Nextlink Internet (wisp): 4,645 paths 5. Rise Broadband (wisp): 2,795 paths 6. Union Pacific Railroad (railroad): 1,715 paths 7. One Ring Networks (carrier regional): 1,561 paths 8. Southern Company (utility): 1,463 paths 9. Viaero Wireless (carrier regional): 1,115 paths 10. GeoLinks (wisp): 869 paths 11. Towerstream (wisp): 868 paths 12. BNSF Railway (railroad): 812 paths 13. Visionary Communications (wisp): 762 paths 14. Pacific Gas and Electric (utility): 674 paths 15. Wisper ISP (wisp): 615 paths 16. Oncor Electric Delivery (utility): 599 paths 17. BUG TUSSEL WIRELESS, LLC (carrier regional): 582 paths 18. State of Washington (state government): 579 paths 19. American Electric Power (utility): 573 paths 20. Mercury Broadband (wisp): 554 paths 21. BOB, LLC (private): 552 paths 22. IHM LICENSES, LLC (private): 539 paths 23. State of California (state government): 538 paths 24. AGILE NETWORK BUILDERS LLC (carrier regional): 533 paths 25. PacifiCorp (utility): 527 paths
Gained most in 90 days
Licences assigned or transferred to the family in the last 90 days.
- T-Mobile US: 13 licences
Families group a company's licensee entities (subsidiaries, former names). Counts are current paths in FCC ULS Part 101 data.