Internet providers in Massachusetts

12 of the operators we cover report service somewhere in Massachusetts, of which 6 sell fiber. Below is how much of the state each one reaches, how Massachusetts compares on choice, and what that means for a specific address.

How much choice does Massachusetts actually have?

Massachusetts ranks 51 of 52 for wired internet choice, among the worst in the country. 37.9% of homes here have at most one wired company able to serve them, against 15.7% nationally.

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Measure	Massachusetts	United States
Residential locations	1,945,048	114,550,235
At most one wireline company in the block	37.9%	15.7%
In a block with no wired company at all	0.0%	1.5%
In a block where nobody reports fiber	38.5%	27.9%
In a block with exactly one fiber company	59.1%	52.2%
In a block with two or more wired companies, none of them fiber	3.1%	17.4%

Massachusetts has less wireline choice than the country as a whole. More of the state sits in blocks where a single company is the only wired option. These are floors rather than estimates, for reasons we set out in the national study. In Massachusetts that third row is 946 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. 1,208,442 Massachusetts locations sit in a block with two or more wired companies. Of those, 95.1% have at least one company offering fiber, and 0.0% 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 Massachusetts

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

Providers serving Massachusetts

Share of Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts covered
Xfinity	Cable	85.9%
T-Mobile Home Internet	Fixed Wireless	74.6%
Verizon Fios	Mixed *	72.0%
AT&T Fiber	Mixed *	46.9%
Astound Broadband	Cable	15.8%
Spectrum	Cable	12.4%
GoNetspeed	Fiber	0.9%
Gateway Fiber	Fiber	0.5%
Breezeline	Cable	0.1%
Ripple Fiber	Fiber	Under 0.1%
Cox	Cable	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 Massachusetts. 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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Wired competition in every Massachusetts county, ranked, with the fiber gap and gigabit availability alongside. The counties scoring worst on competition are the ones with fiber everywhere, and the page explains why.

What speeds are available across Massachusetts

Share of Massachusetts 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	50%	50%	50%	17%
Cable	98%	98%	98%	61%
Fixed wireless	73%	44%	12%	1%
Any technology	100%	100%	100%	67%

Cities in Massachusetts

Internet providers in Boston, MA

Reading this page honestly

A statewide percentage tells you about Massachusetts. 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.