What does it all mean for Pennsylvania?

Unless you live in one of the 40 Pennsylvania counties where less than 90% of residents have access to broadband download speeds of 25mbps, you might not care much about the FCC’s new definition of what constitutes high speed internet and Verizon’s sale of its wireline assets in three states (CA, FL, TX).  But what happens if competition (e.g. Verizon) in PA goes away?

County Type	#	Population	# of counties (pop) with access to DL speed > 25mbps	# of counties (pop) with access to 50%+ FIOS coverage*
Urban	19	9.36M	18 (9.14M)	10 (6.29M)
Rural	48	3.48M	9 (0.67M)	0

*FIOS is available in parts of 13 urban PA counties

Sources: fiberforall.org and broadbandmap.gov