Internet Providers in Richardson, Texas

Internet Access in Richardson, Texas

Richardson features a total of 9 Internet service providers (ISPs) marketing home connections, and a total of 36 including smb, enterprise, and mobile providers such as Verizon Business.

So far as availability, the average Richardson building has 4-5 providers at a given location. Only 4.6 percent of the Richardson population are limited to one or fewer options for broadband.

Taking a look now at network tech offered around the Richardson area, we see that the most common physical wire broadband technology infrastructures are IPBB and Fiber (84.80 percent coverage) and Cable (virtually one hundred percent coverage). Traditional cable TV corporations are where customers look for cable Internet, since they can use pre-existing TV wires — which have already been built out to homes in the area — to connect subscribers to Internet service. Richardson customers of cable ISPs such as Spectrum overwhelmingly pick cable because of the reasonably low pricing for workable speeds. (Compared to DSL at any rate.)

The data listed here is primarily sourced via FCC reports. Then, it is enhanced through private data sources to create more accurate resources than can be accessed through the FCC directly. Speed and pricing data is sourced by manually collecting tens of thousands of data points each year. There are 738 Internet plans in Richardson since 2014. There are 63 Internet or bundled deals currently on the market in the area.

Viasat Internet is the most common overall. They offer coverage reaching near one hundred percent of the area. HughesNet is available for virtually one hundred percent of local residents. The top speed recorded for Viasat reaches 100 Mbps. HughesNet advertised up to 25 Mbps. In general, anything over 10 Mbps will be enough to stream SD videos to devices on WiFi. However, it may become an issue when multiple users try to use modern services like Skype and multiplayer gaming. See the availability maps below to see how broadband coverage compares at the census block level.