Internet in Anchorage, Alaska
Fiber is available at 6.2% of the 80,267 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Anchorage, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 96.0%. 8.3% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 87.7% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
Anchorage in Alaska
Anchorage has one wire. GCI's network reaches 95.4% of the city's homes and businesses and is the only wired provider at 100/20 Mbps for 87.1%, while fiber reaches 6.2%1, less than in Alaska as a whole. The competition comes by radio: in the June 2026 filings a local fixed wireless network reported gigabit service across most of the city.
Who reports service in Anchorage
As of June 30, 2026 (FCC file revision of November 10, 2026), GCI reports service at 95.4% of Anchorage's 80,267 homes and businesses, through cable at all but a handful of them, with advertised downloads of up to 2.5 Gbps1. Its cable is the only wired network offering 100/20 Mbps across most of the city. The next three terrestrial providers each report service at most locations too, but by other means: SPITwSPOTS and Borealis Broadband by fixed wireless, and Ethos Broadband mostly over copper telephone lines.
| GCI | Fiber Cable | 95.4% | 95.4% | 2.5 Gbps | 87.1% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPITwSPOTS Inc | Licensed wireless Fixed wireless | 80.9% | 80.9% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Ethos Broadband | Fiber DSL Licensed wireless Fixed wireless | 76.5% | 14.7% | 2.5 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Borealis Broadband Inc | Fixed wireless | 72.9% | 72.9% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Matanuska Telecom Association Inc. | Fiber DSL | 14.9% | 5.4% | 1 Gbps | 0.6% |
| AT&T | Licensed wireless | 0.0% | 0.0% | – | – |
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Share of the area's broadband serviceable locations where the provider reports service as of June 30, 2026. "Only wired option" is the share of locations where it is the single wired provider at 100/20 Mbps. Provider-reported and challengeable; speeds are advertised maximums, not measured; no prices. Satellite providers (Starlink, Viasat, HughesNet) report service at nearly every location and are left out of the table.
These figures describe locations inside the Anchorage municipality as the Census Bureau drew it in 2020. A provider "reports service" when it tells the FCC it could connect a location within ten business days for a standard installation; the claim can be challenged on the FCC National Broadband Map, which also shows what is reported at one address.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Share of broadband serviceable locations where at least one provider reports the technology, at any speed; a location can have several. Satellite is reported almost everywhere and is left out.
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| Technology | Anchorage | Alaska |
|---|---|---|
| Fiber | 6.2% | 17.1% |
| Cable | 95.3% | 57.6% |
| DSL (copper) | 75.9% | 58.9% |
| Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home) | 79.2% | 44.2% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless | 75.3% | 32.1% |
One wired choice at most addresses
Wired service of 100/20 Mbps or more is reported at 96.0% of locations. That is high by any standard except the one that applies here: among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more, the share is tied for 45th lowest. The bigger difference is choice. At 87.7% of locations exactly one wired provider offers 100/20 Mbps, the 5th highest share among those cities, and that provider is GCI at 87.1%. Two wired options exist at 8.3% and three or more at 0.0%. Across Alaska the share with two or more is 10.7%; across the US it is 55.6%1.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage | 4.0% | 87.7% | 8.3% | 0.0% |
| Alaska | 34.2% | 55.0% | 10.7% | 0.0% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
Besides GCI, the wired providers are Ethos Broadband and Matanuska Telecom Association, which offer 100/20 Mbps, by any of their technologies, at 14.7% and 5.4% of locations. The share with two wired choices has risen from 1.0%2 in June 2022 to 8.3%1.
A radio network rewrote the June 2026 numbers
The largest change in Anchorage's figures came in the six months to June 30, 2026, and it came from fixed wireless, not from a new wire. Licensed fixed wireless, the category that includes 5G home internet, was reported at 0.0% of locations on December 31, 2025 and at 79.2% on June 30, 2026. Most of it is SPITwSPOTS, which reports service at 80.9% of the city's locations, all of it at 100/20 Mbps or more, with an advertised maximum of 1 Gbps. Unlicensed fixed wireless went the other way, from 82.2%3 to 75.3%1.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Licensed fixed wireless | 2.9% | 0.0% | 79.2% | 76.3 pts |
| Gigabit (1,000/100) | 0.9% | 5.7% | 72.3% | 71.4 pts |
| Unserved | 3.3% | 2.7% | 0.8% | −2.5 pts |
| DSL available | 84.4% | 41.1% | 75.9% | −8.5 pts |
Two headline measures moved with it:
- Gigabit with fast uploads. Service of at least 1,000 Mbps download and 100 Mbps upload (the FCC's 1,000/100 tier) went from 5.7% of locations to 72.3%, a rise that was the highest among large cities in that period. Wired 100/100 service reaches only 6.0%, so nearly all of these gigabit offers are by radio, and SPITwSPOTS is the only fixed wireless provider in the city advertising 1 Gbps.
- Unserved locations. Under the definitions of NTIA's BEAD program, which count licensed but not unlicensed fixed wireless as reliable service, the unserved share fell from 2.7%3 to 0.8%1, the largest fall of any large city in those six months.
What did not move is the share of locations with any terrestrial service of 100/20 Mbps: 97.7%3 then, 98.8%1 now. The change was in the technology and speeds reported, not in how many places had a 100/20 option at all, and the filings do not say why it happened. Fixed wireless capacity is shared on each tower, so a reported location is not a promise of a connection; GCI's cable remains the only wired 100/20 Mbps provider at most addresses.
The national carriers are absent from the residential count. T-Mobile does not report home internet in Anchorage, and Verizon's and AT&T's fixed wireless listings are filed as business service. Borealis Broadband's unlicensed network reaches 72.9%, advertising up to 100 Mbps1.
Fiber: rarer in Anchorage than across Alaska
Fiber to the premises is reported at 6.2% of Anchorage's locations, 5,011 homes and businesses. That share ranks 4th lowest among large cities. Alaska's fiber sits mostly outside its largest city: the statewide share, 17.1%1, is higher than Anchorage's.
| Area | Fiber available | Wired 100/100 Mbps | Two or more fiber networks | Two or more wired choices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage, Alaska | 6.2% | 6.0% | 0.0% | 8.3% |
| Honolulu, Hawaii | 90.0% | 90.0% | 0.9% | 85.7% |
| Alaska | 17.1% | 14.4% | 0.1% | 10.7% |
| United States | 62.6% | 73.7% | 12.1% | 55.6% |
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.
3 companies report fiber in the city. Ethos Broadband reports it at 3.8% of locations, with advertised downloads of up to 2.5 Gbps, and Matanuska Telecom Association at 2.4%. GCI reports fiber at 0.1%. Two fiber networks overlap at only 1 locations. Symmetrical wired service of 100/100 Mbps, which in practice means fiber, is advertised at 6.0%, the 2nd lowest share among large cities. Fiber has grown, from 1.0%2 in June 2022, a rise of 5.2 percentage points1.
Download ceilings tell a different story. The fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more at 95.4% of locations, matching the reach of GCI's cable network, which advertises up to 2.5 Gbps. Uploads are where cable and fiber part ways: cable is reported at 95.3% of locations, but wired offers with 100 Mbps uploads reach only the 6.0%1 noted above.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.5% | 0.0% | 2.1% | 95.4% |
| Alaska | 17.6% | 5.0% | 2.9% | 8.6% | 0.0% | 7.3% | 58.7% |
| United States | 2.4% | 1.6% | 1.8% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 31.0% | 61.0% |
Copper figures that swing between filings
DSL is the one technology whose reported reach jumps from release to release. It was reported at 84.4%2 of locations in June 2022, 41.1%3 in December 2025 and 75.9%1 in June 2026. Ethos Broadband, a name that does not appear in the June 2022 filings, reports most of today's copper footprint. A swing of this size within six months points to changes in what is filed rather than in the copper itself; the filings do not explain it. It is one reason any single release, ours included, needs a date beside it.
Where 100/20 comes only by radio, or not at all
At 2.8% of locations (2,220 homes and businesses) the only 100/20 Mbps service is fixed wireless, and among large cities that share is tied for 21st highest. At another 987 locations no terrestrial provider reports 100/20 Mbps at all, and satellite is the only service at 77. Altogether 4.0% of locations have no wired provider at 100/20 Mbps, a share that is also tied for 45th highest1.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.
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| Large city | Fixed wireless only at 100/20 |
|---|---|
| United States | 3.6% |
| Anchorage, Alaska | 2.8% |
What Anchorage households subscribe to
The Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey counts households, not locations, and gives estimates with a margin of error. It found 76.9% of Anchorage households with a cable, fiber or DSL subscription (margin ±2.6 percentage points) and 15.9% relying only on a cellular data plan (margin ±2.5 percentage points). Satellite subscriptions were reported by 6.6% (margin ±1.9 percentage points), against 16.0% across Alaska. Only 2.3% had no internet subscription, a share tied for 25th lowest4 among large cities by point estimate.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables. Availability is a share of locations as of June 30, 2026 (FCC); subscriptions are a share of households from the American Community Survey, 2025 (whiskers: 90% margin of error). Different units and dates: read the gap as a sign, not an exact number.
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| Measure | Share | MOE |
|---|---|---|
| Wired 100/20 Mbps available (FCC, share of locations) | 96.0% | |
| Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census) | 76.9% | ±2.6 |
| Households relying only on a cellular data plan | 15.9% | ±2.5 |
| Households with no internet subscription | 2.3% | ±0.8 |
Anchorage beside cities of its size
Anchorage is the only Alaska city with more than 100,000 residents, so the useful comparison is with similar-sized cities elsewhere, all measured in the same FCC release.
| Area | Fiber available | Gigabit (1,000/100) | Two or more wired choices | Fiber networks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plano, Texas | 90.7% | 97.0% | 89.1% | 5 |
| Madison, Wisconsin | 71.6% | 71.6% | 72.9% | 7 |
| St. Louis, Missouri | 65.1% | 96.9% | 69.1% | 2 |
| Reno, Nevada | 54.0% | 99.8% | 55.7% | 5 |
| North Las Vegas, Nevada | 44.1% | 97.0% | 25.7% | 3 |
| Chandler, Arizona | 41.1% | 89.3% | 36.3% | 4 |
| Gilbert, Arizona | 38.4% | 96.0% | 36.9% | 5 |
| Anchorage, Alaska | 6.2% | 72.3% | 8.3% | 3 |
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.
The Alaska page covers the rest of the state borough by borough, including the smaller places where fiber reaches a larger share of locations than in Anchorage.
Questions about internet in Anchorage
What internet providers are available in Anchorage?
As of June 30, 2026, GCI reports service at 95.4% of locations, almost all by cable. SPITwSPOTS (80.9%) and Borealis Broadband (72.9%) report fixed wireless. Ethos Broadband (76.5%) reports mostly DSL with some fiber, and Matanuska Telecom Association reports DSL and fiber at 14.9%1. Starlink, Viasat and HughesNet report satellite everywhere.
Is fiber internet available in Anchorage?
At 6.2% of locations, the 4th lowest share among the 343 US cities of 100,000 or more, against 17.1% for Alaska and 62.6% for the US. Ethos Broadband (3.8%) and Matanuska Telecom Association (2.4%1) report most of it. Whether one address has fiber can be checked on the FCC map.
How many internet providers does Anchorage have?
6 companies report terrestrial service (anything but satellite) somewhere in the city, 3 of them over a wire. At a single address the wired choice is usually one: 87.7% of locations have exactly one wired provider at 100/20 Mbps and 8.3%1 have two or more.
Is T-Mobile or Verizon 5G home internet available in Anchorage?
No. In the June 30, 2026 data T-Mobile reports no home internet service in Anchorage, and Verizon's and AT&T's fixed wireless listings there are filed as business service, which this site does not count. The widest fixed wireless networks in the city are local: SPITwSPOTS and Borealis Broadband.
Checking one address in Anchorage
The figures on this page describe the whole area. Which providers report service at a single home or apartment is shown only on the FCC's own map: search the address at broadbandmap.fcc.gov. If a provider is listed there but cannot actually connect you within ten business days, or the location is missing or misplaced, the map has a button to file a challenge; providers must respond, and corrections flow into later releases. Prices and plans are not part of the FCC data: each provider must show them on its broadband facts label at the point of sale.
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Sources
- FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Availability as of June 30, 2026; released November 10, 2026. broadbandmap.fcc.gov
- FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2022; Availability as of June 30, 2022; released May 10, 2024. broadbandmap.fcc.gov
- FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of December 31, 2025; Availability as of December 31, 2025; released November 3, 2026. broadbandmap.fcc.gov
- Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables; 2025 (calendar-year sample); released October 29, 2026. api.census.gov
Margins of error (±) are at the 90% confidence level. A difference is called significant only when it passes the Census Bureau's test at that level. How every figure is built: methodology. Found an error? Write to [email protected]; corrections are listed on the updates page.