Internet in Stockton, California
Fiber is available at 37.2% of the 82,101 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Stockton, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 99.3%. 43.3% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 56.0% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
Stockton in California
Stockton has few wires and many radios. Xfinity's cable reaches 99.2% of the city's homes and businesses and is the only wired provider offering 100/20 Mbps at 55.8%, while AT&T's fiber reaches 37.2%. On top of the wires, 91 companies report licensed fixed wireless, the most of any large US city, a count Stockton shares with San Francisco and Mesa.
Xfinity, AT&T and the radio networks
The FCC counts 82,1011 broadband serviceable locations inside Stockton's 2020 city limits, as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026). A location is a house, an apartment building or a business site, so a building of many apartments counts once. The table ranks providers by the share of those locations where they report service; satellite companies are listed but report the whole city.
| unWired Broadband | Licensed wireless Fixed wireless | 100.0% | 80.5% | 1 Gbps | – |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xfinity | Cable | 99.2% | 99.2% | 2 Gbps | 55.8% |
| AT&T | Fiber DSL Licensed wireless | 91.6% | 44.9% | 5 Gbps | 0.1% |
| T-Mobile | Licensed wireless | 83.2% | 10.2% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 75.5% | 21.4% | 300 Mbps | – |
| Cal.net | Licensed wireless Fixed wireless | 57.2% | 57.2% | 100 Mbps | – |
| ezWave | Fixed wireless | 13.3% | 5.7% | 500 Mbps | – |
| DigitalPath Inc | Licensed wireless | 10.4% | 10.4% | 200 Mbps | – |
| Ayera Technologies Inc | Licensed wireless | 7.7% | 7.7% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Softcom Internet Communications Inc | Licensed wireless | 3.4% | 3.4% | 500 Mbps | – |
| Matrix Broadband | Fixed wireless | 1.2% | 1.2% | 400 Mbps | – |
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 (HughesNet, Starlink, Viasat) report service at nearly every location and are left out of the table.
Two companies run wires to most of the city. Xfinity is Stockton's only cable operator and reports cable at 99.2% of locations, with downloads advertised up to 2 Gbps. AT&T reports service at 91.6%, a mix of fiber, DSL over copper telephone lines and its own fixed wireless service, and offers 100/20 Mbps at 44.9%1.
The rest of the list is wireless. unWired Broadband, a fixed wireless company that reports service in 11 state, California, lists every location in the city, and Cal.net more than half. The national carriers T-Mobile and Verizon report 5G or LTE home internet across most of Stockton, and smaller radio networks, among them ezWave, DigitalPath and Ayera Technologies, report service at smaller shares of the city.
A provider "reports service" when it tells the FCC it serves the location or could connect it within ten business days of a request. These are the providers' own claims, and anyone can challenge them on the FCC National Broadband Map.
Fiber: one network
Fiber to the premises, the share of homes and businesses where at least one provider reports fiber, stands at 37.2% in Stockton. That is the 55th lowest share among the 343 US cities of 100,000 or more, below California's 47.8%1. It was 22.1%2 in June 2022 and 35.0%3 in December 2025.
AT&T accounts for all of it in the residential count, with fiber at 37.2% of locations: it is the only company reporting residential fiber in the city, so 0.0% of locations have two or more fiber networks; among large cities Stockton ranks tied for the lowest on that measure. The rest of AT&T's wired network is copper: DSL is still reported at 67.5%1 of locations, down from 76.9%2 in June 2022.
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 | Stockton | California |
|---|---|---|
| Fiber | 37.2% | 47.8% |
| Cable | 99.2% | 90.5% |
| DSL (copper) | 67.5% | 43.7% |
| Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home) | 97.6% | 88.1% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless | 67.4% | 35.3% |
Xfinity alone at 100/20 for more than half the city
Wired service of at least 100/20 Mbps is reported at 99.3% of Stockton's locations. Reach is not the gap; choice is. At 56.0% of locations only one wired provider offers that speed. That share ranks 52nd highest among large cities and is well above California's 43.2%. Xfinity is that single wire at 55.8%; AT&T is the only one at 0.1%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockton | 0.7% | 56.0% | 43.3% | 0.0% |
| Modesto | 0.3% | 60.9% | 38.8% | 0.0% |
| Tracy | 0.6% | 68.7% | 30.8% | 0.0% |
| California | 6.9% | 43.2% | 43.4% | 6.5% |
The share with two or more wired choices at 100/20 Mbps rose from 30.9%2 in June 2022 to 43.3%, in step with the growth of fiber. It remains under the statewide 49.9%, but above Modesto (38.8%) and Tracy (30.8%), the two other large cities in the chart. Three or more wired choices are reported at 0.0%1 of locations.
Many radios, few wires
Fixed wireless reaches a home over the air: a provider's antenna sends the signal to a small receiver mounted on the house or apartment block. Licensed fixed wireless uses spectrum a company holds rights to, including the mobile carriers' 5G home internet; unlicensed fixed wireless uses shared bands. In Stockton 91 companies report licensed fixed wireless, up from 62 in June 2022, which ties the city for the highest count among large cities. The two cities with the same count have far more wired providers:
| Area | Licensed fixed wireless providers | Wired providers reporting service | Three or more terrestrial choices | Two or more wired choices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockton, California | 9 | 2 | 81.0% | 43.3% |
| San Francisco, California | 7 | 10 | 93.2% | 71.1% |
| Mesa, Arizona | 7 | 9 | 67.9% | 55.7% |
| Fresno, California | 6 | 4 | 92.7% | 44.3% |
| Modesto, California | 6 | 4 | 98.4% | 38.8% |
| Tracy, California | 6 | 2 | 98.5% | 30.8% |
| California | 34 | 82 | 51.1% | 49.9% |
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.
San Francisco has 10 wired providers and Mesa 9; Stockton has 2. Counting the radio networks, three or more providers offer 100/20 Mbps at 81.0% of Stockton's locations, against 44.4%2 in June 2022, while the wired figure is 43.3%1 for two or more.
The radio layer has shifted since 2022. DigitalPath reported no service in the city in June 2022 and now reports 10.4% of locations; ezWave reported a few dozen locations then and 13.3% now. Over the same period the share of locations with unlicensed fixed wireless fell from 100.0% to 67.4%, and the share with licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps from 89.5%2 to 73.7%1.
A radio network's reach on the map says nothing about how many customers it can take. Everyone connected to one antenna shares its bandwidth, so a company may list a whole neighborhood and still turn away new sign-ups. unWired Broadband offers 100/20 Mbps at 80.5% of locations, Cal.net at 57.2%, Verizon at 21.4% and T-Mobile at 10.2%. For 587 locations (0.7%1), fixed wireless is the only way to reach 100/20 Mbps because no wire offers it there. None depends on satellite alone.
Cable speeds moved more than cable reach
Xfinity's footprint barely changed: cable was reported at 98.4% of locations in June 2022. What it advertises did. The fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more at 96.8% of locations, against 13.6% in 2022, when 85.2% topped out between 940 Mbps and 2 Gbps. Upload speeds changed most. In June 2022 symmetrical wired service of 100 Mbps or more, up and down, was advertised at 22.1% of Stockton's locations, exactly the fiber share at the time. It is now advertised at 96.9%. With AT&T's fiber at 37.2%, the remainder rests on Xfinity's cable, the only other wire present at nearly every address. The FCC's 1,000/100 gigabit measure, which counts any ground-based technology, rose in step, from 22.1%2 to 97.8%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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gigabit (1,000/100) | 22.1% | 97.4% | 97.8% | 75.7 pts |
| Wired 100/100 Mbps | 22.1% | 96.8% | 96.9% | 74.8 pts |
| Two or more wired choices | 30.9% | 41.4% | 43.3% | 12.4 pts |
| DSL available | 76.9% | 67.9% | 67.5% | −9.3 pts |
Every speed here is a provider-advertised maximum; none is measured. Prices are not part of the FCC filings, and the broadband facts label each provider must publish is where plan prices appear.
Far fewer households without internet than in 2019
The Census Bureau's American Community Survey asks households what they subscribe to, which is a different question from what the FCC map says is available. In 2019, 15.8% of Stockton households had no internet subscription (margin of error ±2.3 percentage points), well above California's 10.0%. In 2025 the figure was 4.5% (±1.2 percentage points), level with the state's 4.4%. Subscriptions to cable, fiber or DSL rose from 63.0% (±2.1 percentage points4) to 74.8% (±2.3 percentage points5). Both changes are well outside the survey's margins.
| Area | Households without an internet subscription | Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL | Households relying only on a cellular data plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stockton, California | 4.5% ±1.2 | 74.8% ±2.3 | 15.8% ±2.5 |
| Fresno, California | 6.8% ±1.2 | 75.7% ±2.1 | 14.6% ±2.0 |
| Modesto, California | 4.4% ±1.5 | 72.5% ±3.0 | 18.4% ±3.4 |
| Sacramento, California | 5.4% ±1.2 | 76.4% ±1.8 | 15.2% ±1.6 |
| Tracy, California | 3.6% ±2.4 | 85.7% ±3.8 | 7.7% ±3.1 |
| California | 4.4% ±0.1 | 78.8% ±0.2 | 12.9% ±0.2 |
Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables. Period: 2025. ± is the 90% margin of error.
Wired subscriptions are still below California's 78.8%. Another 15.8% of Stockton households (±2.5 percentage points) rely on a cellular data plan alone; by point estimate that ranks tied for 64th highest5 among large cities.
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) | 99.3% | |
| Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census) | 74.8% | ±2.3 |
| Households relying only on a cellular data plan | 15.8% | ±2.5 |
| Households with no internet subscription | 4.5% | ±1.2 |
Stockton is in San Joaquin County, where fiber reaches 38.1%1 of locations; the California page maps every county.
Questions and answers
What internet providers are available in Stockton, California?
As of June 30, 2026, Xfinity reports service at 99.2% of Stockton's locations, almost all of it cable, and AT&T at 91.6%, by fiber, DSL or fixed wireless. unWired Broadband reports fixed wireless at 100.0%, T-Mobile at 83.2%, Verizon at 75.5% and Cal.net at 57.2%1; ezWave, DigitalPath and Ayera Technologies cover smaller parts of the city. HughesNet, Viasat and Starlink report satellite everywhere.
Is fiber internet available in Stockton?
At 37.2% of locations as of June 30, 2026, against 47.8% across California and 62.6% nationally. Nearly all of it is AT&T's network, which reports fiber at 37.2% of locations. Two or more fiber networks overlap at 0.0%1.
How many internet providers are there in Stockton?
12 providers report ground-based service somewhere in the city, but only 2 of them over a wire. At a single address the wired choice at 100/20 Mbps is one provider at 56.0% of locations and two at 43.3%. Counting fixed wireless, three or more providers offer 100/20 Mbps at 81.0%1.
Can I get 5G home internet in Stockton?
T-Mobile reports fixed wireless home internet at 83.2% of locations and Verizon at 75.5%, but at 100/20 Mbps or faster only at 10.2% and 21.4%1. Carriers accept sign-ups address by address because a tower's capacity is shared.
Checking one address in Stockton
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.
More on internet in California
The state picture, county by county: internet in California. Other large cities in the state: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach, Oakland, Bakersfield, Anaheim, Riverside and Irvine. Compare Stockton with any other city or state in the comparison tool.
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 2019 1-year detailed tables; 2019. api.census.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.