Internet in Tracy, California

Ten providers, three wires

The FCC counts 27,800 broadband serviceable locations in Tracy as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026), using the city limits drawn for the 2020 Census. A location is a house, an apartment building or a business site. 8 companies report ground-based internet service at some of them; only 2 use a wire, against 2² in June 2022. Among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more, Tracy is tied for 2nd lowest¹ for the number of wired providers.

The wired list is short. Xfinity reports service at 99.4% of locations, nearly all of it cable, and advertises up to 2 Gbps. AT&T reports 92.4%, but most of that is DSL over telephone copper; it offers 100/20 Mbps at 33.7%¹ of locations, mostly over fiber.

Everyone else on the list reaches homes by radio or satellite. "Reports service" means the provider tells the FCC it serves the location or could connect it within ten business days. Each claim can be challenged on the FCC National Broadband Map.

Fiber at a quarter of the city

Fiber, counted as the share of homes and businesses where at least one provider reports fiber to the premises, reaches 24.2% of Tracy's locations. That is the 22nd lowest share among large US cities and less than half of California's 47.8%¹. It was 16.0%² in June 2022 and 22.3%³ in December 2025.

The fiber is almost all AT&T's: it reports fiber at 23.7% of locations, and Xfinity at 0.5%. Only 2 companies report fiber anywhere in the city, down from 1² in June 2022 and tied for the lowest count among large cities, and the two networks overlap at 0.0% of locations. Tracy's own county does better: across San Joaquin County fiber reaches 38.1%¹.

AT&T's copper is retreating slowly. DSL was reported at 80.3%² of locations in June 2022 and at 73.5% in June 2026, still a share that ranks tied for 58th highest¹ among large cities.

Xfinity is the only fast wire at most addresses

Fast wired service is almost universal: 99.4% of locations can get a wired connection of at least 100/20 Mbps. The gap is choice. At 68.7% of locations exactly one wired provider offers that speed, the 24th highest share among large cities, against 43.2% statewide. Xfinity is that single wire at 68.6%. Two wired choices exist at 30.8%, mostly where AT&T fiber runs beside Xfinity's cable, and three or more at 0.0%¹.

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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
Tracy	0.6%	68.7%	30.8%	0.0%
Elk Grove	0.9%	28.5%	37.5%	33.1%
California	6.9%	43.2%	43.4%	6.5%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

The share with two or more wired choices grew alongside fiber, from 25.0%² in June 2022 to 30.8%. Elk Grove, shown for comparison, has two fiber builders, and 70.6%¹ of its locations have a second wire.

Matrix Broadband and the wireless build-out

The largest change in Tracy since 2022 came over the air. Matrix Broadband, an unlicensed fixed wireless company that reports service only in California, was almost absent from the city in June 2022. It now reports 17,198 locations in Tracy, 61.9% of the city, out of 47,488 it reports nationwide, and offers 100/20 Mbps at 61.7% with advertised downloads up to 600 Mbps. Verizon's reported footprint also grew over the period, to 81.4%¹ of locations.

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Fiber24.2% 47.8%

Cable98.9% 90.5%

DSL (copper)73.5% 43.7%

Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home)99.0% 88.1%

Unlicensed fixed wireless99.4% 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	Tracy	California
Fiber	24.2%	47.8%
Cable	98.9%	90.5%
DSL (copper)	73.5%	43.7%
Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home)	99.0%	88.1%
Unlicensed fixed wireless	99.4%	35.3%

Two other wireless companies that report service only in California cover most of the city: unWired Broadband reports every location and offers 100/20 Mbps at 99.1%, and Cal.net offers it at 90.8%. The share of locations with licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps rose from 26.1%² in June 2022 to 92.7%¹.

Counting every ground-based technology, three or more providers offer 100/20 Mbps at 98.5% of Tracy's locations. On that measure the city ranks 4th highest among large cities, far above California's 51.1%¹.

Tracy98.5%

Modesto98.4%

Fremont94.6%

Stockton81.0%

California51.1%

Antioch44.0%

United States43.1%

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	Three or more terrestrial choices
Tracy	98.5%
Modesto	98.4%
Fremont	94.6%
Stockton	81.0%
California	51.1%
Antioch	44.0%
United States	43.1%

Fixed wireless sends the signal from a provider's antenna to a receiver on the building. A tower's capacity is shared by everyone it serves, so a company can list a neighborhood on the map and still limit new sign-ups there. For 157 locations (0.6%¹), fixed wireless is the only way to get 100/20 Mbps, because no wire offers it. No location in the city depends on satellite alone.

Gigabit uploads without new fiber

Upload speeds changed more than the networks did. Gigabit service with uploads of at least 100 Mbps, the FCC's 1,000/100 tier, was advertised at 16.0% of locations in June 2022, the same as the fiber share then. By December 2025 it was 53.3%³, and by June 2026 63.3%; the six-month rise ranks tied for 27th highest among large cities. Symmetrical wired service of 100/100 Mbps or more followed the same path, from 16.0%² to 63.3%. Fiber covers only 24.2%¹, so most of that symmetrical service rests on Xfinity's cable, the only other wire at nearly every address.

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

Gigabit (1,000/100)63.3% +47.4 pts

Fiber available24.2% +8.2 pts

Three or more terrestrial choices98.5% +59.9 pts

DSL available73.5% −6.7 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)	16.0%	53.3%	63.3%	47.4 pts
Fiber available	16.0%	22.3%	24.2%	8.2 pts
Three or more terrestrial choices	38.6%	94.8%	98.5%	59.9 pts
DSL available	80.3%	74.3%	73.5%	−6.7 pts

The top advertised download moved the same way: 2 Gbps or more is the fastest tier at 62.3% of locations, against 5.1%² in 2022. Tracy's gigabit share is still below California's 67.4%¹. All speeds here are maximums the providers advertise, not measurements, and the FCC filings contain no prices; plan prices appear on each provider's broadband facts label.

Households here choose wired service

The Census Bureau's American Community Survey asks households what they subscribe to, a separate question from what the FCC map says is available. In 2025, 85.7% of Tracy households subscribed to cable, fiber or DSL (margin of error ±3.8 percentage points), above California's 78.8% by more than the margin. Only 7.7% relied on a cellular data plan alone (±3.1 percentage points), against 12.9% statewide, and 3.6% had no subscription (±2.4 percentage points⁴).

The contrast with nearby cities is clear on wired subscriptions. Stockton (74.8%, ±2.3 percentage points) and Modesto (72.5%, ±3.0 percentage points⁴) both sit well below Tracy, although both have more fiber (37.2% and 29.7%¹ of locations). In Tracy itself the 2025 figure is close to 2019's 84.2% (±3.2 percentage points⁵), so the survey shows no clear change since 2019.

Tracy is in San Joaquin County, where a single wired option at 100/20 Mbps is the case at 51.4%¹ of locations; the California page maps every county.