Texas Internet Service Providers: Availability & Coverage

INTERNET ACCESS IN Texas

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Texas Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

90%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

14%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

56.0

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

30th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

89.8%

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

87.7%

of Texans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

38.1%

of Texans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

95.7%

of Texans have access to wireline service.

32.6%

of Texans have access to fiber-optic service.

86.8%

of Texans have access to cable service.

88.1%

of Texans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Texans have access to mobile broadband service.

87.3%

of Texans have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Texas

AT&T Internet vs Xfinity

AT&T Internet vs Spectrum

AT&T Internet vs Suddenlink

Frontier vs Suddenlink

Frontier vs Xfinity

Top 5 Fastest cities in Texas

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Ranger	171.6 MBPS	15 Providers
2.	Rogers	159.5 MBPS	12 Providers
3.	Schertz	150.0 MBPS	25 Providers
4.	Valentine	147.1 MBPS	9 Providers
5.	Brookshire	146.3 MBPS	19 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Texas

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
XFINITY from Comcast	86.2 MBPS
AT&T Internet	82.9 MBPS
Charter Spectrum	71.8 MBPS
NextLink	22.0 MBPS
Rise Broadband	9.8 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Connected Texas has been awarded $8,026,000 in federal grants for Texas's Broadband Initiative.
Another $67,698,503, accounting for 1.9% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Texas.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 87.9% to 93.9% of Texans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 505 internet providers in Texas.
There are 2.5 million people in Texas without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 2.5 million people in Texas that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 1.2 million people in Texas 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.

Texas CITIES


Abilene	97.0%	19 providers
Alamo	97.8%	16 providers
Alice	86.5%	14 providers
Allen	99.4%	27 providers
Alvarado	39.0%	20 providers
Alvin	89.5%	21 providers
Amarillo	94.3%	21 providers
Angleton	80.0%	18 providers
Arlington	100.0%	34 providers
Athens	81.7%	13 providers
Aubrey	90.6%	19 providers
Austin	99.9%	44 providers
Azle	62.1%	22 providers
Balch Springs	100.0%	23 providers
Bastrop	74.8%	23 providers
Bay City	79.2%	13 providers
Baytown	88.6%	19 providers
Beaumont	89.9%	18 providers
Bedford	100.0%	25 providers
Beeville	88.9%	14 providers
Belton	96.7%	19 providers
Big Spring	90.2%	12 providers
Boerne	97.6%	21 providers
Brenham	68.5%	12 providers
Brownsville	98.6%	17 providers
Brownwood	2.0%	15 providers
Bryan	87.4%	21 providers
Buda	94.7%	22 providers
Burleson	97.3%	26 providers
Canyon	96.3%	12 providers
Carrollton	100.0%	31 providers
Cedar Hill	99.9%	25 providers
Cedar Park	100.0%	20 providers
Channelview	99.9%	21 providers
Cibolo	98.6%	19 providers
Cleburne	79.0%	29 providers
Cleveland	63.0%	18 providers
College Station	90.8%	22 providers
Colleyville	100.0%	20 providers
Conroe	92.4%	29 providers
Converse	98.8%	25 providers
Coppell	100.0%	18 providers
Copperas Cove	97.5%	12 providers
Corpus Christi	99.5%	28 providers
Corsicana	76.9%	19 providers
Crosby	89.0%	14 providers
Crowley	96.5%	22 providers
Cypress	99.2%	26 providers
Dallas	100.0%	50 providers
Dayton	60.8%	13 providers
Deer Park	99.9%	21 providers
Del Rio	98.1%	11 providers
Del Valle	99.3%	20 providers
Denison	92.6%	18 providers
Denton	99.2%	26 providers
Desoto	100.0%	18 providers
Dickinson	95.4%	18 providers
Donna	87.7%	15 providers
Duncanville	98.5%	24 providers
Eagle Pass	97.9%	9 providers
Edinburg	85.9%	22 providers
El Paso	99.3%	30 providers
Elgin	63.2%	21 providers
Ennis	72.6%	18 providers
Euless	100.0%	26 providers
Floresville	35.0%	18 providers
Flower Mound	100.0%	22 providers
Forney	99.0%	19 providers
Fort Hood	100.0%	12 providers
Fort Worth	98.9%	45 providers
Fredericksburg	74.5%	15 providers
Fresno	85.2%	14 providers
Friendswood	97.8%	23 providers
Frisco	99.8%	27 providers
Gainesville	83.6%	16 providers
Galveston	96.3%	18 providers
Garland	100.0%	26 providers
Gatesville	35.0%	13 providers
Georgetown	92.5%	23 providers
Gilmer	96.6%	14 providers
Granbury	91.0%	18 providers
Grand Prairie	100.0%	27 providers
Grapevine	100.0%	26 providers
Greenville	81.3%	24 providers
Haltom City	99.4%	19 providers
Harker Heights	100.0%	10 providers
Harlingen	96.5%	17 providers
Helotes	96.4%	19 providers
Henderson	72.0%	19 providers
Hereford	91.1%	10 providers
Houston	95.1%	48 providers
Humble	95.5%	23 providers
Huntsville	77.3%	15 providers
Hurst	99.2%	24 providers
Hutto	95.9%	23 providers
Irving	100.0%	34 providers
Jacksonville	68.6%	12 providers
Katy	99.1%	26 providers
Keller	95.9%	24 providers
Kerrville	96.6%	13 providers
Kilgore	78.2%	15 providers
Killeen	99.2%	18 providers
Kingsville	86.2%	19 providers
Kingwood	99.6%	20 providers
Kyle	98.8%	20 providers
La Porte	99.1%	22 providers
Lake Jackson	98.1%	15 providers
Lancaster	97.7%	22 providers
Laredo	98.3%	23 providers
League City	98.3%	17 providers
Leander	96.9%	20 providers
Lewisville	100.0%	32 providers
Little Elm	98.9%	18 providers
Livingston	54.7%	11 providers
Longview	93.8%	24 providers
Lubbock	94.3%	24 providers
Lufkin	92.0%	12 providers
Lumberton	99.1%	12 providers
Mabank	72.0%	14 providers
Magnolia	96.5%	19 providers
Mansfield	99.5%	22 providers
Marshall	80.0%	17 providers
Mcallen	99.9%	22 providers
Mckinney	98.8%	30 providers
Mercedes	71.7%	17 providers
Mesquite	99.9%	30 providers
Midland	96.0%	28 providers
Midlothian	93.5%	18 providers
Mineral Wells	80.1%	17 providers
Mission	87.5%	21 providers
Missouri City	99.8%	24 providers
Montgomery	94.9%	20 providers
Mount Pleasant	70.5%	12 providers
Nacogdoches	88.8%	15 providers
Nederland	99.8%	11 providers
New Braunfels	99.0%	26 providers
New Caney	92.9%	12 providers
North Richland Hills	99.5%	25 providers
Odessa	85.4%	28 providers
Orange	79.3%	13 providers
Palestine	59.9%	13 providers
Pampa	87.5%	15 providers
Paris	87.3%	18 providers
Pasadena	94.0%	26 providers
Pearland	99.5%	25 providers
Pflugerville	99.4%	26 providers
Pharr	99.7%	21 providers
Plainview	88.6%	14 providers
Plano	100.0%	29 providers
Port Arthur	100.0%	11 providers
Porter	97.5%	13 providers
Red Oak	91.0%	18 providers
Richardson	100.0%	29 providers
Richmond	93.0%	21 providers
Rio Grande City	95.0%	10 providers
Roanoke	97.6%	21 providers
Robstown	73.6%	16 providers
Rockport	98.9%	19 providers
Rockwall	98.4%	26 providers
Rosenberg	89.2%	22 providers
Rosharon	44.0%	16 providers
Round Rock	100.0%	27 providers
Rowlett	100.0%	25 providers
Royse City	62.1%	17 providers
Sachse	100.0%	17 providers
San Angelo	94.0%	17 providers
San Antonio	98.8%	50 providers
San Benito	80.2%	13 providers
San Juan	99.5%	16 providers
San Marcos	97.7%	20 providers
Schertz	99.4%	25 providers
Seabrook	99.7%	20 providers
Seguin	83.9%	19 providers
Sherman	91.8%	20 providers
Southlake	100.0%	24 providers
Spring	99.8%	30 providers
Stafford	96.0%	22 providers
Stephenville	77.5%	14 providers
Sugar Land	99.0%	25 providers
Sulphur Springs	78.7%	16 providers
Temple	94.5%	21 providers
Terrell	67.2%	23 providers
Texarkana	98.4%	12 providers
Texas City	97.5%	16 providers
The Colony	99.4%	21 providers
Tomball	98.6%	23 providers
Tyler	95.2%	25 providers
Universal City	100.0%	26 providers
Uvalde	95.6%	11 providers
Victoria	86.9%	25 providers
Vidor	93.4%	11 providers
Waco	95.8%	26 providers
Waxahachie	78.8%	22 providers
Weatherford	71.4%	25 providers
Webster	86.5%	24 providers
Weslaco	93.0%	18 providers
Wichita Falls	95.2%	25 providers
Willis	87.1%	17 providers
Woodway	99.8%	19 providers
Wylie	99.7%	20 providers

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Last Updated on 1/8/2020.

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