Internet in Visalia, California

Who reports service in Visalia

Every figure on this page describes the 45,360¹ homes and businesses the FCC places inside Visalia's city limits as drawn for the 2020 Census, in the National Broadband Map as of June 30, 2026 (revision of November 10, 2026). The FCC calls them broadband serviceable locations; one apartment building is one location, whatever the number of units in it.

Two companies run wired networks across the city. Xfinity reports cable at 98.5% of locations and advertises downloads of up to 2 Gbps. AT&T reports service at 90.6%, but most of that is DSL over copper telephone lines, reported at 62.5% of locations, or its fixed wireless service; AT&T offers 100/20 Mbps at 36.2%¹. Most of the other names in the table run radio networks; the satellite companies report every location.

Each share in the table is a claim the company files itself: that it serves the location now or would install service there within ten business days of an order. Residents can dispute a claim for their own address through the FCC National Broadband Map.

Fiber: AT&T's network and little else

A fiber line runs to 27.3% of the city's homes and businesses, putting Visalia tied for 25th lowest of the large cities on this measure. The share has crept up, from 22.9% in mid-2022 to 26.8%³ at the end of 2025, while AT&T's copper DSL footprint shrank from 66.8%² to 62.5%¹.

AT&T accounts for nearly all of it, with fiber at 27.3% of locations and advertised downloads of up to 5 Gbps. 3 companies report fiber somewhere in the city, but the others are small: Xfinity's is the largest, at 0.5% of locations. Two or more fiber networks overlap at 0.5%¹.

United States62.6%

California47.8%

Fresno39.6%

Stockton37.2%

Bakersfield35.5%

Clovis34.9%

Modesto29.7%

Visalia27.3%

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%
California	47.8%
Fresno	39.6%
Stockton	37.2%
Bakersfield	35.5%
Clovis	34.9%
Modesto	29.7%
Visalia	27.3%

Among the Valley cities in the chart, Fresno reports fiber at 39.6% and Bakersfield at 35.5%¹.

One cable line, rarely a second wire

Wired service of at least 100/20 Mbps is reported at 99.0% of locations. The choice behind that figure is narrow. At 64.9% of locations exactly one wired provider offers that speed, a share that ranks tied for 29th highest among the 343 US cities of 100,000 or more, and Xfinity is that provider at 64.8%. Across California the single-wire share is 43.2%¹.

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Visalia

Tulare 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
Visalia	1.0%	64.9%	34.1%	0.0%
Tulare County	12.7%	48.9%	32.7%	5.7%
California	6.9%	43.2%	43.4%	6.5%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

Two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps are reported at 34.1% of locations, a share that ranks tied for 29th lowest among large cities. Where there is a second wire, it is usually AT&T's. The share has moved little: it was 30.9%² in June 2022, a gain of 3.2 percentage points¹ in four years.

A crowd of wireless networks over one wire

Fixed wireless reaches a building by radio from an antenna, and in Visalia it is the main source of competition. 7 companies report licensed fixed wireless in the city, tied for 2nd highest among large cities, up from 4² in June 2022. Unlicensed fixed wireless, which uses shared radio bands, is reported at 99.6% of locations, against 35.3%¹ statewide.

• unWired Broadband reports service at 100.0% of locations and 100/20 Mbps at 99.5%, advertising up to 1 Gbps. It reports service only in California.
• Verizon reports 68.9%, the largest gain in locations of any provider in the city since June 2022, and T-Mobile 68.2%. T-Mobile's advertised maximum here is 100 Mbps.
• OACYS Technology, which reported almost no locations in the city in June 2022, now reports 26.0%; Cal.net reports 23.3% and Wireless Internet Services 16.0%¹.

Once radio networks are counted alongside wires, three or more providers offer 100/20 Mbps at 80.9% of locations, up from 47.2%² in June 2022; the California share is 51.1%¹. That is choice on paper. A wireless network reporting a block is not committing to connect every home on it: a sector's bandwidth is split among its users, and companies cap sign-ups to protect it.

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

Three or more terrestrial choices80.9% +33.7 pts

Two or more wired choices34.1% +3.2 pts

Fiber available27.3% +4.4 pts

DSL available62.5% −4.3 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)
Three or more terrestrial choices	47.2%	82.5%	80.9%	33.7 pts
Two or more wired choices	30.9%	33.6%	34.1%	3.2 pts
Fiber available	22.9%	26.8%	27.3%	4.4 pts
DSL available	66.8%	62.8%	62.5%	−4.3 pts

The city and the rest of Tulare County

Visalia sits in Tulare County, and on several measures the county as a whole, farms and small towns included, looks different from the city. Fiber reaches 39.4% of the county's 141,069 locations, more than in Visalia itself. Wired choice moved faster too: the county's share of locations with two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps rose by 21.0 percentage points since June 2022, to 38.4%, while Visalia's rose by 3.2 percentage points¹.

The gaps run the other way. Across the county, fixed wireless is the only way to get 100/20 Mbps at 10.8% of locations and satellite is the only option at 1.4%. Inside the city those shares are 1.0% (445 locations) and 0.0%. The BEAD program's definition of unserved, no wired or licensed fixed wireless service of at least 25/3 Mbps, applies to 47 locations in Visalia and 3,432¹ in the county.

Cable uploads, not new wires

The biggest shift in Visalia since 2022 is in upload speeds, and it arrived without a new network. In June 2022, 22.9% of locations could order wired service of 100 Mbps or more in both directions, matching the fiber share then. By June 30, 2026 the figure was 99.0%, and the 1,000/100 gigabit tier had moved from 22.9%² to 99.2%. With fiber at 27.3%, the faster uploads at most of those addresses travel over Xfinity's cable. A top download tier of 2 Gbps or more is listed at 99.0%¹ of locations. All of this is what providers advertise as a maximum, not a measured result; the FCC collects no prices, so plan costs are on each provider's broadband facts label.

Fewer households without a subscription

Availability is one question and paying for service another, which the Census Bureau answers with its American Community Survey of households. In 2025, 4.1% of Visalia households had no internet subscription (margin of error ±1.8 percentage points), down from 12.5% (±4.0 percentage points⁵) in 2019, and the two ranges do not overlap. Cable, fiber or DSL subscriptions stood at 79.2% (±2.9 percentage points), and 13.6% (±3.3 percentage points⁴) relied on a cellular data plan alone.

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