Internet Access in Alabama: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Alabama

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Alabama Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

81%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

26%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

25.1

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

41st

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

82.9%

of Alabamians have access to wired broadband 25mbps or faster.

67.6%

of Alabamians have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

8.9%

of Alabamians have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

94.4%

of Alabamians have access to wireline service.

18.8%

of Alabamians have access to fiber-optic service.

77.8%

of Alabamians have access to cable service.

83.9%

of Alabamians have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Alabamians have access to mobile broadband service.

15.7%

of Alabamians have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Alabama

AT&T Internet vs Spectrum

AT&T Internet vs Xfinity

AT&T Internet vs WOW!

Xfinity vs WOW!

AT&T Internet vs Cable ONE

Top 5 Fastest cities in Alabama

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Helena	88.6 MBPS	11 Providers
2.	Anniston	74.6 MBPS	11 Providers
3.	Huntsville	72.4 MBPS	19 Providers
4.	Talladega	61.4 MBPS	14 Providers
5.	Albertville	61.3 MBPS	13 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Alabama

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
WOW!	32.4 MBPS
Charter Spectrum	28.6 MBPS
AT&T Internet	28.5 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	26.5 MBPS
CenturyLink	6.0 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, The Connecting ALABAMA Initiative has been awarded $4,874,142 in federal grants for Alabama's Broadband Initiative.
Another $91,596,026, accounting for 2.6% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Alabama.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 82.8% to 87.4% of Alabamians.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 144 internet providers in Alabama.
There are 842,000 people in Alabama without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 1.0 million people in Alabama that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 276,000 people in Alabama don't have any wired internet providers available where they live.

Sources: Data collected via the FCC, NTIA, and other sources. For a full list of data sources please visit our data page.

Alabama CITIES


Albertville	98.3%	13 providers
Anniston	97.9%	11 providers
Athens	96.2%	14 providers
Auburn	94.6%	14 providers
Bessemer	92.1%	15 providers
Birmingham	96.1%	23 providers
Cullman	84.6%	8 providers
Decatur	99.3%	13 providers
Dothan	96.0%	18 providers
Enterprise	99.9%	13 providers
Florence	93.8%	14 providers
Gadsden	97.6%	14 providers
Huntsville	95.8%	19 providers
Jasper	91.3%	10 providers
Madison	95.1%	18 providers
Mobile	96.2%	21 providers
Montgomery	98.9%	20 providers
Northport	91.9%	13 providers
Opelika	94.5%	15 providers
Phenix City	99.6%	15 providers
Prattville	88.3%	15 providers
Selma	89.0%	13 providers
Tuscaloosa	94.3%	13 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.