Internet Providers in Bellingham, Washington

Internet Access in Bellingham, Washington

Bellingham features a total of 12 broadband providers marketing home service. Including business Internet, that's a total of 26 companies available locally, like PogoZone. (Some might be "doubles", since many companies list residential service and business services separately.)

The average home in Bellingham will find 3-4 providers at their location, or precisely 3.49 ISPs per census block. Only 2.24 percent of Bellingham residents are stuck with one option for home Internet.

Viasat Internet offers the largest coverage area for Bellingham residents. The provider is accessible for close to one hundred percent of Bellingham. HughesNet is also a common option, with coverage in practically one hundred percent of Bellingham with Satellite service. HughesNet's fastest plan in Bellingham is 25 megabits per second.

Taking a look at network tech with significant infrastructure built the city, the most widespread hardwired Internet technology options are DSL and Fiber (86.03 percent coverage) and Cable (93.42 percent coverage). TV corporations are where customers look for cable home Internet, thanks to the fact that they can re-purpose their pre-existing TV wires — which already connect to most homes — to connect customers to Internet service. Bellingham subscribers to cable companies such as Xfinity overwhelmingly select cable thanks to the reasonably low pricing for decent speeds. (Compared to the alternatives, anyway.)

Internet availability insights here and elsewhere on BroadbandNow are drawn from governmental data and privatized datasets collected directly from ISPs. Statistics about speed averages is sourced via M-Labs. Our in-house market researchers have hand-validated price and service data for 401 Internet offerings within Bellingham as of 2021.