Internet in Montgomery, Alabama

Spectrum and WOW! both reach nearly every address

The FCC's National Broadband Map, as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026), counts 76,974 homes and businesses inside Montgomery's city limits as drawn for the 2020 Census. Two separate cable networks cover almost all of them. Spectrum reports service at 94.6% of locations and WOW! at 89.8%, and both offer 100/20 Mbps or more wherever they report. Counting both, cable reaches 94.8%¹ of the city's locations.

More than a quarter of WOW!'s Alabama footprint is in this one city. Of the 254,932 Alabama locations where it reports service, 69,149¹ are in Montgomery.

A listing means the provider serves the location or says it could install standard service within ten business days, and anyone can challenge it on the FCC map. The shares describe the city, not one street.

Competition was already in place in 2022

With both cable networks already in place, choice in Montgomery barely moved over four years. The share of locations with two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps was 88.6% in June 2022 and is 92.2% now; among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more, Montgomery ranks 45th highest on this measure and tied for 71st lowest for its change since 2022. Across Alabama the share rose from 31.5%² to 52.8% over the same period, and nationally it is 55.6%¹.

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Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Different wired providers (fiber, cable or DSL; FCC provider IDs) reporting 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up or more at the same location. Fixed wireless and satellite are not counted.

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Area	None	One	Two	Three or more
Montgomery	3.1%	4.7%	34.5%	57.7%
Alabama	9.8%	37.5%	38.6%	14.2%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

What changed was the third wire. Three or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps were reported at 30.3% of locations in 2022 and at 57.7% by June 2026, as the share with exactly two fell from 58.2%² to 34.5%¹.

June 30, 2022December 31, 2025June 30, 2026

Two wired choices34.5% −23.7 pts

Three or more wired choices57.7% +27.4 pts

Fiber available60.7% +28.9 pts

Two or more fiber networks12.5% +10.8 pts

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2022; FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of December 31, 2025; FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Shares of broadband serviceable locations in each FCC release (latest revision of each); the small number is the change in percentage points since June 30, 2022. The FCC's count of locations is updated with each release, so shares are compared rather than counts.

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Measure	June 30, 2022	December 31, 2025	June 30, 2026	Change (points)
Two wired choices	58.2%	39.0%	34.5%	−23.7 pts
Three or more wired choices	30.3%	53.1%	57.7%	27.4 pts
Fiber available	31.8%	56.1%	60.7%	28.9 pts
Two or more fiber networks	1.7%	5.8%	12.5%	10.8 pts

A single fast wire is rare: 4.7% of locations, a share that ranks tied for 31st lowest among large cities. Where that happens it is usually Spectrum, the only wired 100/20 provider at 2.7% of locations; WOW! is alone at 0.2%¹.

Three fiber builders, partly overlapping

Fiber was reported at 31.8% of Montgomery's locations in the first National Broadband Map, as of June 30, 2022. It reached 56.1%³ by December 31, 2025 and 60.7% by June 30, 2026. The number of companies reporting fiber in the city rose from 2² to 5¹.

Three of them account for nearly all of it. AT&T reports fiber at 34.8% of locations, C Spire at 26.3% and T-Mobile at 12.3%; Spectrum adds fiber at 0.6%. C Spire, whose largest footprint is in Mississippi, reports 20,242 locations in the city, with a fastest advertised download of 10 Gbps¹.

The footprints overlap in places. Two or more fiber providers are reported at 12.5% of locations, up from 5.8%³ six months earlier and 1.7%² in 2022. Statewide the figure is 13.0%. Montgomery's overall fiber share, though, is below Alabama's 66.4% and ranks 119th lowest¹ among large cities.

Gigabit uploads stop where fiber stops

Nearly every location can get an advertised 1 Gbps download: 96.9%, over cable or fiber. WOW! advertises up to 1.2 Gbps and Spectrum up to 1 Gbps. The FCC's gigabit tier also requires an upload of at least 100 Mbps, and that tier, 1,000/100, is advertised at 60.7% of locations, the same as the fiber share. Cable and fixed wireless here are reported with slower uploads. That makes Montgomery's gigabit share the 47th lowest among large cities, below Alabama's 68.1%¹.

At the top end, the fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more at 57.7% of locations, up from 18.9%² in 2022; C Spire advertises up to 10 Gbps, AT&T up to 5 Gbps and T-Mobile up to 5 Gbps¹, all on fiber. Every speed here is a maximum that providers advertise to the FCC, not a measurement.

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Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Maximum advertised download speed (Mbps) of any wired or fixed wireless offer at the location, as reported by providers to the FCC; satellite excluded. Advertised, not measured.

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Area	Under 25 Mbps or none	25–99	100–249	250–499	500–939	940–1,999	2,000 or more
Montgomery	1.1%	0.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	39.2%	57.7%
Alabama	5.3%	2.8%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	39.8%	49.7%
United States	2.4%	1.6%	1.8%	1.4%	0.9%	31.0%	61.0%

Verizon and T-Mobile home internet over the air

Verizon reports fixed wireless home internet at 91.1% of locations, a service it reported at almost no Montgomery addresses in June 2022, with a fastest advertised download of 300 Mbps. T-Mobile's listing at 88.8% is mostly fixed wireless. Each offers 100/20 Mbps at about half the city: 46.5% for Verizon and 46.3% for T-Mobile. AT&T also reports fixed wireless in parts of the city, alongside DSL at 43.3%¹ of locations. A tower sector's capacity is shared, so the carriers confirm eligibility address by address.

The gaps are small. 2,384 locations have no wired provider at 100/20 Mbps, fixed wireless is the only way to reach that speed at 348, and 7¹ are reported reachable by satellite alone.

Montgomery beside Alabama's other large cities

Among Alabama's cities of 100,000 or more, only Huntsville has a larger share of three-wire locations than Montgomery: three or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps reach 83.2% of its locations. In Tuscaloosa the share is 15.6%, in Mobile 1.4% and in Birmingham 0.0%. On fiber the order is different: Montgomery (60.7%) trails Huntsville (92.8%) and Mobile (79.3%¹).

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Fewer households without internet than in 2019

In the Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey, 5.3% of Montgomery households had no internet subscription (margin of error ±1.6 percentage points), against 15.8% (±2.4 percentage points) in 2019, a drop larger than both margins. Cable, fiber or DSL subscriptions rose from 72.7% (±3.0 percentage points) to 83.4% (±2.5 percentage points), again a change wider than the margins. The share relying only on a cellular data plan, 9.2% (±2.4 percentage points⁴), is close to its 2019 level of 9.5%⁵. The survey counts households over a year and the FCC counts locations on one date, so the two sources can be compared for direction, not as an exact gap.