Internet in Pomona, California

Frontier's fiber and Spectrum's cable

Two companies supply almost all of Pomona's wired internet. Spectrum reports service at 95.0% of the city's 31,862 homes and businesses, mostly over cable, with fiber at 1.0%. Frontier reports fiber at 80.6%, with advertised downloads of up to 7 Gbps. Counting every company, fiber reaches 81.4% of locations as of June 30, 2026, against 47.8%¹ for California as a whole.

4 companies report fiber somewhere in the city, up from 3² in June 2022, but outside Frontier and Spectrum their networks are small: Utah Broadband and AT&T each report fiber at a few dozen locations or fewer. As a result two or more separate fiber networks pass only 0.3%¹ of locations. The table counts a provider where it reports that it can install service within ten business days; providers' reports can be challenged on the FCC map, address by address.

Two wired choices at most addresses

The usual Pomona address has exactly two wired providers offering at least 100/20 Mbps, Frontier and Spectrum: 80.4% of locations. Among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more, that share ranks tied for 47th highest. A third wired option at that speed is almost unknown (0.1%). At 14.6% of locations there is only one, and in nearly all of those cases it is Spectrum (14.5%). Statewide, 49.9% of locations have two or more wired choices; in Pomona the figure is 80.5%¹.

NoneOneTwoThree or more

Pomona

Los Angeles County

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
Pomona	4.9%	14.6%	80.4%	0.1%
Los Angeles County	4.1%	35.1%	58.0%	2.8%
California	6.9%	43.2%	43.4%	6.5%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

The fiber footprint also sets the speed ceiling. At 80.6% of locations the fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more, and gigabit service with uploads of at least 100 Mbps is advertised at 81.4%, the same share as fiber. In the December 31, 2025 filing that gigabit tier stood at 88.4%³ while fiber was unchanged, so the drop of 7.0 percentage points¹ reflects networks other than fiber reporting that tier less widely. All speeds here are the maximums providers advertise, not measurements.

Copper gone, wireless thinner

Two layers of Pomona's network have shrunk in the FCC filings since 2022. DSL over telephone copper was reported at 43.0% of locations in June 2022 and at 0.4% in June 2026; what remains is mostly Frontier DSL at a few hundred locations. Licensed fixed wireless, the category that includes 5G home internet, fell from 93.2%² to 83.1%, below the California share of 88.1%. That retreat is not peculiar to Pomona: the carriers' reported wireless coverage shrank across the neighboring cities too, by 15.5 percentage points in Ontario and 6.2 percentage points¹ statewide.

Pasadena−2.4 pts

United States−3.6 pts

California−6.2 pts

El Monte−7.1 pts

Rancho Cucamonga−7.7 pts

Pomona−10.1 pts

West Covina−13.1 pts

Ontario−15.5 pts

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	Licensed fixed wireless: change since June 30, 2022
Pasadena	−2.4 pts
United States	−3.6 pts
California	−6.2 pts
El Monte	−7.1 pts
Rancho Cucamonga	−7.7 pts
Pomona	−10.1 pts
West Covina	−13.1 pts
Ontario	−15.5 pts

The wireless numbers moved in both directions. Licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps climbed from 5.8%² in 2022 to 64.4%³ in December 2025, then fell to 28.4% six months later. T-Mobile now reports home internet at 76.8% of locations but 100/20 Mbps at 20.1%. AT&T, which reported almost no Pomona locations in June 2022, now reports 14,092, nearly all of them by fixed wireless, with 100/20 Mbps at 6.6%¹. Unlicensed radio networks do not count toward the federal definition of served.

A small gap that grew

Locations with no terrestrial service at 100/20 Mbps became rarer in Pomona, falling from 5.7% in June 2022 to 4.1%. The slowest end moved the other way. Under the definitions of the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, 99 locations, or 0.3%, are unserved: no wired or licensed fixed wireless provider reports even 25/3 Mbps there. That share was 0.1%² in June 2022, and the rise of 0.3 percentage points is tied for 8th highest among the 343 largest cities. At 51 locations satellite is the only service reported at all; by share, that ranks tied for 14th highest¹ among those cities.

The FCC's list of locations itself changes between releases: Pomona's count changed by +643¹ locations since June 2022. The filings do not say whether the unserved locations are new buildings, corrected records or places a provider stopped reporting. Anyone at one of them can check the address on the FCC National Broadband Map and file a challenge if a provider's report is wrong.

Pomona beside its neighbors

Fiber is not spread evenly across this part of Southern California. Ontario, across the San Bernardino County line, has fiber at 81.9% of locations and West Covina at 80.7%, close to Pomona's share. Rancho Cucamonga (21.7%) and El Monte (33.8%) have much less, and there a single wired provider at 100/20 Mbps is the usual case: 76.7% and 61.6% of locations, against 14.6%¹ in Pomona.

Ontario81.9%

Pomona81.4%

West Covina80.7%

United States62.6%

Los Angeles County58.6%

California47.8%

Pasadena44.8%

El Monte33.8%

Rancho Cucamonga21.7%

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
Ontario	81.9%
Pomona	81.4%
West Covina	80.7%
United States	62.6%
Los Angeles County	58.6%
California	47.8%
Pasadena	44.8%
El Monte	33.8%
Rancho Cucamonga	21.7%

Fewer households offline than in 2019

Far fewer Pomona households go without internet than in 2019. In the Census Bureau's 2019 survey, 14.3% of Pomona households had no internet subscription (margin of error ±2.8 percentage points); in the 2025 survey the share was 4.2% (±1.6 percentage points), a difference far larger than either margin. Households with a cable, fiber or DSL subscription rose from 68.8% (±2.4 percentage points⁴) to 81.1% (±3.7 percentage points⁵). Census counts households and the FCC counts locations, so the two sets of figures describe the same city from different angles. Pomona's current share without a subscription is in the same range as its neighbors', and the survey margins overlap too much to rank them.

Ontario5.6% ±2.3

West Covina4.7% ±2.8

California4.4% ±0.1

Pomona4.2% ±1.6

Pasadena4.2% ±1.7

El Monte3.8% ±2.0

Rancho Cucamonga3.1% ±1.6

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables. Whiskers show the 90% margin of error. Period: 2025.

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Area	Households without an internet subscription	MOE
Ontario	5.6%	±2.3
West Covina	4.7%	±2.8
California	4.4%	±0.1
Pomona	4.2%	±1.6
Pasadena	4.2%	±1.7
El Monte	3.8%	±2.0
Rancho Cucamonga	3.1%	±1.6

Pomona is in Los Angeles County; the California page maps fiber, choice and unserved locations in every county of the state.