AT&T Fiber vs Google Fiber

These two overlap in 24 metro areas and 207 towns and cities, so for a lot of people this is a real choice rather than a hypothetical one. The first question is not which is better. It is which of them can reach you.

AT&T Fiber vs Google Fiber at a glance

AT&T FiberGoogle Fiber
Main technology Fiber Fiber
Residential locations on that technology 19,375,365 1,886,259
Single technology or mixed Mixed Mixed
Full coverage detail Coverage page coming Where Google Fiber is available

We do not publish speeds or prices here. Both providers change them constantly and by market, and a stale number is worse than no number. Coverage is the part that is federally reported and verifiable.

Where you can get both

Metro areas where both AT&T Fiber and Google Fiber report service, ranked by how well covered the less available of the two is because that is what decides whether you genuinely get a choice.

Metro area AT&T Fiber Google Fiber
Kansas City, MO-KS Metro Area 80% 56%
Salt Lake City, UT Metro Area 65% 44%
Raleigh-Cary, NC Metro Area 78% 33%
Huntsville, AL Metro Area 83% 32%
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metro Area 60% 30%
Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX Metro Area 67% 22%
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area 71% 22%
Logan, UT-ID Metro Area 41% 20%
Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA Metro Area 57% 18%
Provo-Orem, UT Metro Area 52% 16%
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area 83% 12%
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area 76% 11%
Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA Metro Area 48% 8%
Ogden-Clearfield, UT Metro Area 55% 4%
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA Metro Area 82% 3%
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ Metro Area 56% 3%
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metro Area 44% 2%
Jefferson City, MO Metro Area 23% 2%
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area 79% 2%
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA Metro Area 91% 2%
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro Area 58% 1%
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL Metro Area 87% 1%
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro Area 74% 1%
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metro Area 87% 0%

Which should you pick?

Honestly, in most of the places above only one of them will actually reach your building, and that settles it. Where both do reach you, the useful question is the technology rather than the brand.

Both are mainly fiber networks, so the technology argument does not separate them. Compare on price, contract terms and local service reputation instead, none of which the FCC publishes, and none of which we will invent.

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