Internet in Chandler, Arizona

The companies filing service in Chandler

As of June 30, 2026 (FCC revision of November 10, 2026), the FCC counts 91,152 homes and businesses inside Chandler's city limits. Cox reports service at almost all of them, 95.6%, every one at 100/20 Mbps or faster: fiber at 20.0% of locations and cable at most of the rest. AT&T reports service at 66.3%, but fiber accounts for only 22.7%; the rest of its footprint is fixed wireless. CenturyLink's copper DSL network is reported at 78.1%, with 100/20 Mbps at just 10.3%. Google Fiber is the newest wired network, at 6.1%¹.

A share in this table is the part of the city's locations where a company tells the FCC it provides service, or could install it within ten business days. The filings can be challenged on the FCC map, they carry no prices, and the speeds in them are advertised maximums. Chandler's boundary here is the one drawn for the 2020 Census.

One wired choice at most addresses

The count of companies overstates the choice at any one home. At 59.6% of Chandler's locations exactly one wired provider offers 100/20 Mbps, and that provider is Cox at 59.3%. The single-wire share ranks 44th highest among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more. Two or more wired providers at that speed reach 36.3% of locations, against 33.1% across Arizona, 55.6% nationally and 76.8% in the median large city. The average location has 1.37¹ wired providers at 100/20 Mbps.

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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
Chandler	4.1%	59.6%	31.5%	4.8%
Arizona	12.7%	54.2%	29.0%	4.1%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

Choice has widened since the first map. In June 2022, 84.0% of locations had a single wired option and 15.4%² had two or more; the two-or-more share has since risen by 20.9 percentage points¹.

Fiber: three networks, none of them alone

Fiber from any provider is reported at 41.1% of Chandler's locations, up from 16.5%² in June 2022. That is below Arizona (41.5%) and the US (62.6%), and ranks tied for 66th lowest¹ among large cities. It comes from three companies of very different size:

• AT&T reports fiber at 22.7% of locations, with advertised downloads of up to 8 Gbps. It filed no service in the city in June 2022. Lumen, CenturyLink's parent, sold its consumer fiber business, Quantum Fiber, to AT&T on February 2, 2026, and CenturyLink now reports only DSL in Chandler.
• Cox reports fiber at 20.0%, alongside cable on the rest of its network.
• Google Fiber reports 6.1%, also advertised at up to 8 Gbps¹, and was also absent in 2022.

Neither AT&T nor Google Fiber is a lone wire. AT&T is the only wired 100/20 provider at 0.1% of locations and Google Fiber at 0.0%: practically every home they reach also has Cox or another wired provider at that speed. A location with two different fiber providers is rarer, at 6.2%. In all, 4¹ companies report fiber somewhere in the city, against 3² in 2022.

Gigabit uploads on the existing network

What changed most in Chandler's filings since 2022 is speed, especially upload speed. In June 2022 the fastest advertised download at 99.5% of locations was about 1 Gbps but below 2 Gbps, and gigabit service with uploads of at least 100 Mbps, the FCC's 1,000/100 tier, was advertised at 0.0%². By June 2026 the top advertised download at 95.6% of locations was 2 Gbps or more, and the 1,000/100 tier reached 89.3%. That rise of 89.3 percentage points ranks 40th highest among large cities, and 16.8 percentage points¹ of it came in the latest half-year alone.

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

Gigabit (1,000/100)89.3% +89.3 pts

Cable available77.2% −19.1 pts

Fiber available41.1% +24.6 pts

One wired choice59.6% −24.4 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)
Gigabit (1,000/100)	0.0%	72.5%	89.3%	89.3 pts
Cable available	96.3%	77.1%	77.2%	−19.1 pts
Fiber available	16.5%	39.6%	41.1%	24.6 pts
One wired choice	84.0%	61.6%	59.6%	−24.4 pts

Fiber reaches 41.1% of locations, so the 1,000/100 coverage does not come from fiber alone. Cox's footprint stayed near-universal, at 95.6% of locations, while cable's share of the city fell from 96.3% to 77.2%: locations Cox files as fiber are no longer counted as cable. Wired service of at least 100/100 Mbps went from 16.5%² to 89.6%¹. All of these are advertised maximums reported by the providers.

Wireless companies in unusual numbers

Fixed wireless is the second layer almost everywhere in Chandler. 5 companies report licensed fixed wireless, which includes 5G home internet, a count tied for 39th highest among large cities, and their service reaches 95.5% of locations. The national carriers cover wide areas but offer 100/20 Mbps at fewer of them: Verizon at 44.5% of locations and T-Mobile at 25.5%¹.

Unlicensed fixed wireless grew faster. It was reported at 30.7%² of locations in June 2022 and at 95.7% in June 2026, almost all of it from AirFiber WISP, a company that files in 1 state, Arizona. It reports 94.6% of Chandler's locations, all at 100/20 Mbps, with a fastest advertised download of 100 Mbps. Tristate Wi-Fi by Wi-Fiber reports 16.5% and WeLink 8.9%¹. Wireless capacity is shared on each tower or antenna, so reported availability does not mean every home on a street can sign up.

For a small group of locations, wireless is the only fast option: 3,698 homes and businesses, or 4.1%, have fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps but no wired line at that speed, a share tied for 8th highest among large cities. Only 60¹ locations have no terrestrial 100/20 service at all. More on the technology is on the fixed wireless page.

Chandler and its East Valley neighbors

Chandler's single-wire pattern is close to Gilbert's, where Cox is the only wired 100/20 option at 59.4% of locations. Mesa, where fiber reaches 58.6% of locations, has a single-wire share of 34.5%; Tempe sits at the other end, at 83.7%. The 1,000/100 tier is near-universal across the five cities, from 84.7% in Tempe to 96.0%¹ in Gilbert.

Tempe83.7%

Scottsdale66.2%

Gilbert59.9%

Chandler59.6%

Arizona54.2%

United States36.6%

Mesa34.5%

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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Area	One wired choice
Tempe	83.7%
Scottsdale	66.2%
Gilbert	59.9%
Chandler	59.6%
Arizona	54.2%
United States	36.6%
Mesa	34.5%

The Arizona page maps every county, including Maricopa County, where Chandler sits; the Phoenix and Mesa pages cover the larger neighbors.

Subscriptions near the top of the country

Chandler households subscribe at one of the highest rates of any large city. In the Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey, 98.4% of households had a broadband subscription of some kind (margin of error ±0.7 percentage points), tied for 9th highest among large cities by point estimate, against 94.7% statewide. 86.9% subscribed to cable, fiber or DSL (margin of error ±2.0 percentage points), 9.0% relied only on a cellular data plan, and 1.6% had no internet subscription (margin of error ±0.7 percentage points⁴). The survey counts households over a year, the FCC counts locations on one date, and neighboring cities in the ranking may not differ significantly.

Wired 100/20 Mbps available (FCC, share of locations)95.9%

Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census)86.9% ±2.0

Households relying only on a cellular data plan9.0% ±2.0

Households with no internet subscription1.6% ±0.7

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)	95.9%
Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census)	86.9%	±2.0
Households relying only on a cellular data plan	9.0%	±2.0
Households with no internet subscription	1.6%	±0.7