Compare two internet providers on where they actually reach

Every comparison here answers one question first: do these two companies both reach you at all? 47 pairs, built from the FCC's Broadband Data Collection filing, covering 26 operators.

Why this is the first question

Almost every provider comparison online compares advertised speeds and prices between two companies, only one of which can serve the address being asked about. Coverage is regional in every case. Two operators can look evenly matched nationally and overlap in a handful of metros, or never meet at all.

Each page below states where both companies report service, where only one of them does, and how much of each place each one reaches. None of them publishes a speed or a price, because the federal filing does not carry one.

All 47 comparisons

Ordered by the number of metro areas where both operators report service, which is the closest available measure of how many people the question applies to.

Comparison Shared metros Shared cities
T-Mobile Home Internet vs Spectrum 513 8,651
Verizon Fios vs Spectrum 505 7,659
AT&T Fiber vs Spectrum 479 6,952
T-Mobile Home Internet vs Xfinity 354 7,794
Verizon Fios vs Xfinity 353 7,434
AT&T Fiber vs Xfinity 352 7,318
Frontier Fiber vs Spectrum 237 1,779
Brightspeed vs Spectrum 189 1,254
Spectrum vs Xfinity 168 664
Frontier Fiber vs Xfinity 157 1,089
Verizon Fios vs Optimum 136 1,776
Kinetic vs Spectrum 119 467
Brightspeed vs Xfinity 111 557
TDS Telecom vs Spectrum 99 252
Quantum Fiber vs Spectrum 90 609
Quantum Fiber vs Xfinity 69 1,037
Metronet vs Spectrum 67 198
Optimum vs Spectrum 59 266
AT&T Fiber vs Cox 56 749
Fidium Fiber vs Spectrum 46 283
Frontier Fiber vs Optimum 46 463
Metronet vs Xfinity 46 186
Breezeline vs Xfinity 41 295
Astound Broadband vs Xfinity 40 535
Fidium Fiber vs Xfinity 37 416
altafiber vs Spectrum 36 520
Astound Broadband vs Spectrum 31 179
Sparklight vs Xfinity 30 75
Optimum vs Xfinity 27 331
Cox vs Spectrum 25 70
GoNetspeed vs Spectrum 25 106
AT&T Fiber vs Google Fiber 24 207
Glo Fiber vs Xfinity 23 130
WOW! vs Spectrum 21 95
Breezeline vs Spectrum 19 136
Cox vs Xfinity 18 91
WOW! vs Xfinity 18 132
Ziply Fiber vs Xfinity 16 164
Google Fiber vs Spectrum 14 100
Google Fiber vs Xfinity 14 118
Cox vs Quantum Fiber 12 117
Google Fiber vs Quantum Fiber 11 56
Bluepeak vs Midco 10 54
GoNetspeed vs Fidium Fiber 8 55
Sonic vs AT&T Fiber 6 75
Google Fiber vs Cox 4 16
Sonic vs Xfinity 4 59

Counted across the metro areas and census places in the FCC filing where both operators report at least one residential location. Providers self-report this data and it is known to overstate coverage.

By operator

Start from the company you already have, or the one you are considering.

AT&T Fiber

Astound Broadband

Bluepeak

Breezeline

Brightspeed

Cox

Fidium Fiber

Frontier Fiber

Glo Fiber

GoNetspeed

Google Fiber

Kinetic

Metronet

Midco

Optimum

Quantum Fiber

Sonic

Sparklight

Spectrum

T-Mobile Home Internet

TDS Telecom

Verizon Fios

WOW!

Xfinity

Ziply Fiber

altafiber

Or skip the comparison

A shared metro is not a shared street. Fiber was built out block by block, so two houses on the same road can have different options, and the only figure that settles yours is the one for your own address.

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