Home internet in Glendale, California

Spectrum at nearly every address, AT&T fiber at fewer than half

Spectrum and AT&T are the two networks found almost everywhere in Glendale. Spectrum reports service at 94.9% of the city's 34,419 homes and businesses, nearly all of it over cable, with download speeds advertised up to 1 Gbps. AT&T reports service at 93.9%, but over three different technologies: fiber at 37.9% of locations, advertised up to 5 Gbps¹, and copper DSL or fixed wireless across most of the rest. These are the figures providers reported to the FCC as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026), for the city limits as drawn for the 2020 Census.

A location in the FCC's count is a single address: a house, a small business, or a whole apartment building. That is why Glendale has 34,419¹ locations but, in the Census Bureau's 2025 survey, 75,412³ households. "Reported available" means the provider says it could install standard service within ten business days; residents can challenge a listing on the FCC National Broadband Map.

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Fiber39.5% 47.8%

Cable94.8% 90.5%

DSL (copper)69.3% 43.7%

Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home)87.6% 88.1%

Unlicensed fixed wireless0.0% 35.3%

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	Glendale	California
Fiber	39.5%	47.8%
Cable	94.8%	90.5%
DSL (copper)	69.3%	43.7%
Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home)	87.6%	88.1%
Unlicensed fixed wireless	0.0%	35.3%

A second fast wire for half the city

Nearly every location in Glendale can get wired internet at 100/20 Mbps or faster: 95.9% of locations, which places it tied for 41st lowest among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more. What varies is whether there is a second option at that speed. At 48.1% of locations Spectrum is the only one; at 47.8% there are two or more, and three or more at just 0.1%¹.

NoneOneTwoThree or more

Glendale

Burbank

California

United States

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
Glendale	4.1%	48.1%	47.7%	0.1%
Burbank	4.6%	35.0%	60.4%	0.0%
California	6.9%	43.2%	43.4%	6.5%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

The second wire is almost always AT&T. It offers 100/20 Mbps at 51.4% of locations, a larger share than its fiber footprint, so part of its non-fiber network is also reported at that speed. Across California, 49.9% of locations have two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps, close to Glendale's figure; nationally the share is 55.6%¹.

Glendale beside Burbank, Pasadena and Los Angeles

Glendale's neighbors have gone further with fiber. As of June 30, 2026, fiber reaches 51.8% of locations in Burbank, 44.8% in Pasadena and 51.9% in Los Angeles, against 39.5% in Glendale, the 61st lowest¹ share among large cities.

United States62.6%

Los Angeles51.9%

Burbank51.8%

California47.8%

Pasadena44.8%

Glendale39.5%

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	Fiber available
United States	62.6%
Los Angeles	51.9%
Burbank	51.8%
California	47.8%
Pasadena	44.8%
Glendale	39.5%

Pasadena's pattern is the closest match: one wired choice at 100/20 Mbps for 46.6% of its locations, against 48.1% in Glendale. Burbank's single-wire share is lower, at 35.0%¹.

How fiber spread after 2022

In the first National Broadband Map, as of June 30, 2022, fiber reached 24.1% of Glendale's locations. By June 30, 2026 it reached 39.5%, a rise of 15.4 percentage points, including 2.1 percentage points in the last six months alone. Over the same four years DSL fell by 2.8 percentage points to 69.3%, and the share of locations with only one wired provider at 100/20 Mbps fell from 57.0%² to 48.1%¹.

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

Fiber available39.5% +15.4 pts

Two or more wired choices47.8% +10.3 pts

Wired 100/100 Mbps39.5% +15.4 pts

DSL available69.3% −2.8 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)
Fiber available	24.1%	37.3%	39.5%	15.4 pts
Two or more wired choices	37.5%	46.3%	47.8%	10.3 pts
Wired 100/100 Mbps	24.1%	37.7%	39.5%	15.4 pts
DSL available	72.2%	69.3%	69.3%	−2.8 pts

The count of companies reporting fiber in the city went from 2² to 4, but apart from AT&T their fiber reaches only small parts of the city. Spectrum reports fiber at 1.4% of locations and ConnectTo at 0.3%. Their networks rarely overlap with AT&T's: only 0.1%¹ of locations have two or more fiber providers.

Fiber is also what sets the upload ceiling. Symmetrical service of 100/100 Mbps or more is advertised at 39.5% of locations, matching the fiber share, even though a 1 Gbps download is advertised at 95.6% over Spectrum's cable. At 34.1%¹ of locations the fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more, up from 11.5%² in 2022. All of these are providers' advertised maximums, not measured speeds.

Under 25 Mbps or none25–99100–249250–499500–939940–1,9992,000 or more

Glendale

Los Angeles

California

United States

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
Glendale	1.2%	1.3%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	61.5%	34.1%
Los Angeles	1.2%	1.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	48.6%	47.7%
California	1.7%	1.0%	1.7%	1.0%	1.5%	30.7%	62.5%
United States	2.4%	1.6%	1.8%	1.4%	0.9%	31.0%	61.0%

More radio networks than almost any large city

Glendale has an unusual number of fixed wireless providers using licensed spectrum: 6, up from 4² in 2022 and tied for 8th highest among the large cities. This category includes 5G home internet from the mobile carriers. T-Mobile reports it at 72.3% of locations, with 100/20 Mbps at 19.9%; Verizon at 55.9%, with 100/20 Mbps at 27.8%. Two smaller fixed wireless companies report narrower footprints: Starry at 9.9% of locations and GeoLinks at 0.9%¹, both advertising 100/20 Mbps or more wherever they report service.

None of this changes the count of wired choices, and fixed wireless capacity is shared by everyone on a tower sector, so carriers accept or refuse sign-ups address by address. The licensed fixed wireless share itself, 87.6%¹ of locations, is lower than the 93.6%² reported in 2022.

Fewer households without internet than in 2019

In the Census Bureau's 2025 survey, 6.9% of Glendale households had no internet subscription (margin of error ±2.2 percentage points), down from 14.5% (±2.3 percentage points⁵) in the 2019 survey; the two ranges do not overlap. 78.6% subscribed to cable, fiber or DSL (margin ±2.4 percentage points), and 13.3%³ relied only on a cellular data plan.

This page covers Glendale in Los Angeles County, California. Glendale, Arizona is a separate city with its own page, and the California page compares every county in the state.