Sparklight vs Xfinity

These two overlap in 30 metro areas and 75 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.

Sparklight vs Xfinity at a glance

SparklightXfinity
Main technology Cable Cable
Residential locations on that technology 2,092,486 37,853,193
Single technology or mixed Mixed Mixed
Full coverage detail Where Sparklight is available Coverage page coming

We do not publish speeds or prices here.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 Sparklight and Xfinity 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 Sparklight Xfinity
St. Marys, GA Micro Area 41% 61%
Danville, IL Metro Area 29% 52%
Hilton Head Island-Bluffton, SC Metro Area 94% 19%
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR Metro Area 16% 61%
Bedford, IN Micro Area 14% 54%
Monroe, LA Metro Area 13% 66%
Albuquerque, NM Metro Area 10% 89%
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA Metro Area 8% 66%
Meridian, MS Micro Area 6% 62%
Decatur, IL Metro Area 5% 86%
Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN Metro Area 4% 77%
Jackson, MS Metro Area 4% 71%
Terre Haute, IN Metro Area 32% 4%
Minden, LA Micro Area 20% 3%
Gadsden, AL Metro Area 3% 69%
Springfield, IL Metro Area 2% 77%
Hinesville, GA Metro Area 2% 77%
Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN Metro Area 1% 66%
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX Metro Area 1% 93%
Longview, TX Metro Area 52% 1%
New Orleans-Metairie, LA Metro Area 1% 3%
Columbus, IN Metro Area 1% 92%
Peoria, IL Metro Area 1% 65%
Galesburg, IL Micro Area 1% 64%
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metro Area 1% 3%

Showing 25 of 30 metro areas where both operate.

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 cable 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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