Internet providers in Alabama

19 of the operators we cover report service somewhere in Alabama, of which 11 sell fiber. Below is how much of the state each one reaches, how Alabama compares on choice, and what that means for a specific address.

How much choice does Alabama actually have?

Alabama ranks 27 of 52 for wired internet choice, worse than most states. 15.5% of homes here have at most one wired company able to serve them, against 15.7% nationally.

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Measure	Alabama	United States
Residential locations	2,111,762	114,550,235
At most one wireline company in the block	15.5%	15.7%
In a block with no wired company at all	1.0%	1.5%
In a block where nobody reports fiber	23.4%	27.9%
In a block with exactly one fiber company	54.1%	52.2%
In a block with two or more wired companies, none of them fiber	14.9%	17.4%

Alabama has more wireline choice than the country as a whole, because a smaller share of the state is served by a single wired company. These are floors rather than estimates, for reasons we set out in the national study. In Alabama that third row is 20,315 residential locations with no wired option reported by anybody: not fiber, not cable, not copper.

Having a choice is not the same as having a good one. 1,783,871 Alabama locations sit in a block with two or more wired companies. Of those, 82.4% have at least one company offering fiber, and 0.1% have nothing but copper between all of the companies reaching them. The last row of the table is the same fact counted against the whole state rather than against the households it applies to.

Two providers compared in Alabama

Both operators in each pair report service somewhere in Alabama, so these are choices a reader here might actually face:

Providers serving Alabama

Share of Alabama residential locations each operator reports it can reach. A low percentage is not a bad network. It usually means a network concentrated in a few towns.

Provider	Technology	Share of Alabama covered
AT&T Fiber	Mixed *	64.7%
T-Mobile Home Internet	Fixed Wireless	63.7%
Verizon Fios	Mixed *	53.9%
Spectrum	Cable	42.0%
Xfinity	Cable	19.7%
WOW!	Cable	12.0%
Brightspeed	Mixed *	11.7%
Mediacom	Cable	10.1%
C Spire	Mixed *	7.0%
Sparklight	Cable	3.2%
Google Fiber	Fiber	3.1%
Point Broadband	Mixed *	2.8%
GoNetspeed	Fiber	1.5%
Kinetic	Mixed *	1.3%
TDS Telecom	Mixed *	0.9%
Frontier Fiber	Mixed *	0.5%
Vyve Broadband	Cable	0.2%
Buckeye Broadband	Mixed *	Under 0.1%
Fidium Fiber	Mixed *	Under 0.1%

* This operator reports several technologies to the FCC nationally, and the federal data does not break that down by state, so we cannot tell you which one reaches a specific address in Alabama. Read the percentage as the whole company, not the brand. A national carrier files its fiber, its cable, its copper and its fixed wireless under one identifier. We mark a technology plainly only when at least 80% of what that operator reports nationally sits on it, or when its entire filing sits on one technology.

Covers the 79 operators we have mapped from FCC holding-company names to the brand people actually buy. Smaller operators that file under a name we have not yet matched are not listed here, so a local provider missing from this table may still serve you, because the address check below reads the raw filing and will show it.

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What speeds are available across Alabama

Share of Alabama homes where at least one provider reports offering that speed on that technology. This is genuine state level data, the level the FCC actually publishes it at.

Technology	25/3 Mbps	100/20 Mbps	250/25 Mbps	1 Gbps / 100 Mbps
Fiber	59%	59%	58%	58%
Cable	73%	73%	72%	15%
Fixed wireless	72%	39%	0%	0%
Any technology	100%	100%	100%	63%

Reading this page honestly

A statewide percentage tells you about Alabama. It does not tell you about your street. Fiber in particular was built out block by block, and nationally up to one in nine residential locations sits in a block where fiber exists and still does not reach the building, so a provider showing strong statewide coverage here can still tell you no.

Providers report their own coverage to the FCC and the data is known to overstate it. Where a provider says it cannot serve you, it is right and the filing is wrong.