Florida internet: cable territories, a fiber surge and the inland Panhandle
Fiber is available at 68.4% of the 7,744,217 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Florida, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 96.2%. 66.0% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 30.2% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
South region, South Atlantic division
Florida's wired map is divided between cable companies, Xfinity in the southeast and around Jacksonville, Spectrum around Tampa Bay and Orlando, and fiber has spread across most of it since 2022. Tampa already had fiber when the first national map was drawn; the inland Panhandle still has counties where many homes and businesses have no wired option at 100/20 Mbps.
Who reports home internet in Florida
As of June 30, 2026 (FCC revision of November 10, 2026), 77 companies report terrestrial home internet somewhere in Florida, 64 of them over fiber, cable or copper. They cover 7.7 million1 broadband serviceable locations: houses, apartment buildings and small businesses. A location counts as served by a provider when the provider says it could connect it within ten business days for a standard installation; the claim can be challenged on the FCC map.
| T-Mobile | Fiber Licensed wireless | 78.1% | 23.9% | 5 Gbps | 0.0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT&T | Fiber DSL Licensed wireless | 70.0% | 40.8% | 10 Gbps | 0.9% |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 65.3% | 25.5% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Xfinity | Fiber Cable | 49.4% | 49.4% | 2 Gbps | 14.9% |
| Spectrum | Fiber Cable | 40.1% | 40.1% | 1 Gbps | 10.8% |
| Frontier | Fiber DSL | 15.9% | 15.9% | 7 Gbps | 0.2% |
| CenturyLink | Fiber DSL | 14.5% | 0.3% | 8 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Rapid Systems | Licensed wireless | 7.1% | 0.1% | 100 Mbps | – |
| WOW! | Fiber Cable | 5.7% | 5.7% | 5 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Cox | Fiber Cable | 3.9% | 3.9% | 2 Gbps | 1.0% |
| Metronet | Fiber | 2.4% | 2.4% | 5 Gbps | 0.0% |
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.
The top of the list is wireless. T-Mobile reports service at 78.1% of locations and Verizon at 65.3%, almost all of it licensed fixed wireless, but each advertises 100/20 Mbps at only about a quarter of locations (23.9% and 25.5%). AT&T reaches 70.0% with three technologies; its fiber alone covers 37.3% of the state, the largest fiber footprint in Florida. Frontier's network, reported at 15.9%1, is almost entirely fiber. The wired backbone, though, is cable.
Three cable territories
Cable is reported at 87.4% of Florida locations, the 11th highest share among the states, but no single company holds it. Xfinity covers 49.4% of the state and Spectrum 40.1%, in different parts of the state. Xfinity is the largest provider in Miami-Dade County (94.4% of locations), Broward County (95.7%) and Duval County around Jacksonville (98.3%). Spectrum leads in Hillsborough (95.5%), Pinellas (96.7%) and Orange County, around Orlando (94.1%). In Okaloosa County on the western Panhandle coast the cable company is Cox, at 89.2%1.
Where no other wired network offers 100/20 Mbps, the cable company is the only wired choice at that speed. Xfinity is the sole wired provider at that speed at 14.9% of Florida's locations and Spectrum at 10.8%; AT&T is alone at 0.9%1.
Still, Florida has more wired competition than most states. 66.0% of locations can choose between two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps, the 10th highest share, up from 42.9%2 in June 2022; 30.2% have exactly one. Pinellas County has the highest share of any county, 86.2%, and it has a second cable network: WOW! reports service at 77.5%1 of its locations alongside Spectrum.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 3.8% | 30.2% | 54.2% | 11.8% |
| Pinellas County | 3.2% | 10.7% | 33.6% | 52.6% |
| Miami-Dade County | 0.9% | 14.9% | 79.4% | 4.8% |
| Washington County | 74.9% | 25.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
Fiber went from a third of the state to most of it
At least one provider reported fiber at 68.4% of Florida's locations as of June 30, 2026. In the first National Broadband Map, as of June 30, 2022, the share was 38.2%. The rise of 30.2 percentage points ranks 22nd highest among the states, against 25.4 percentage points nationally, and it continued into the latest release, up 3.5 percentage points since December 2025. Copper retreated at the same time: DSL fell from 58.4%2 of locations to 43.5%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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiber available | 38.2% | 64.8% | 68.4% | 30.2 pts |
| DSL available | 58.4% | 44.7% | 43.5% | −14.8 pts |
| Wired 100/100 Mbps | 38.1% | 74.6% | 77.1% | 39.0 pts |
| Two or more fiber networks | 0.6% | 8.4% | 10.4% | 9.7 pts |
| One wired choice | 47.9% | 32.3% | 30.2% | −17.7 pts |
Tampa and its suburbs are the exception, because their fiber was already there. Fiber was reported at 88.2%2 of locations in Tampa in June 2022 and at 87.9% in 2026; Frontier reports service at 87.0% of the city. Hillsborough County's fiber share moved by only 0.4 percentage points in four years and Pasco County's by 2.5 percentage points1.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file cb_2025_us_county_5m. Darker counties are higher. Point at a county for its value; the county table has every figure. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.
Elsewhere the change was large. Fiber's share rose by 55.6 percentage points in Volusia County, 36.4 percentage points in Lee County and 84.0 percentage points in Okaloosa County. In 16 of the state's 674 counties it rose by 50 points or more. The most complete change is in the Big Bend: in Dixie County, which had virtually no fiber in the 2022 data, it now reaches 99.0% of 9,575 locations, mostly from Fiber by Central Florida (92.8%) and Conexon Connect LLC (62.3%). The same two networks report fiber in neighboring Levy County, where fiber's share rose by 76.0 percentage points1.
Advertised speeds: 2 Gbps tiers at most locations
The fiber build changed the top of the advertised range. At 70.8% of Florida locations the fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more, against 24.7% in June 2022 and 61.0% nationally today. Symmetric wired service of at least 100/100 Mbps is reported at 77.1%1 of locations, up from 38.1%2. These are the providers' maximum advertised speeds, not measured performance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 1.4% | 1.2% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.0% | 25.3% | 70.8% |
| United States | 2.4% | 1.6% | 1.8% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 31.0% | 61.0% |
5G home internet: near-universal reach, fewer fast offers
Licensed fixed wireless, the category that includes 5G home internet, is reported at 91.4% of Florida locations, a share that ranks tied for 8th highest in the country. Coverage of that kind is not the same as speed: licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps or more reaches 42.1% of locations. The number of companies filing licensed fixed wireless in Florida rose from 72 in 2022 to 13. One regional network, Rapid Systems, reports it at 7.1% of the state's locations, with a fastest advertised download of 100 Mbps1.
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 | Florida | United States |
|---|---|---|
| Fiber | 68.4% | 62.6% |
| Cable | 87.4% | 80.3% |
| DSL (copper) | 43.5% | 36.2% |
| Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home) | 91.4% | 87.3% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless | 1.8% | 19.7% |
At most locations the wireless option sits beside a wire. Only 0.9% of locations, 73,161 in all, can get 100/20 Mbps by fixed wireless and not by any wired provider, against 3.6%1 nationally.
The inland Panhandle
Florida's service gaps are small statewide, 0.9% of locations unserved and 0.3%1 with satellite as the only service, but they are not spread evenly. The largest shares are in the rural inland counties of the Panhandle, between the Gulf coast and the Alabama and Georgia lines.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file cb_2025_us_county_5m. Darker counties have larger gaps. Point at a county for its value; the county table has every figure. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.
Holmes County has the highest unserved share, 20.1% of its 9,307 locations, and the highest satellite-only share, 10.1%. The most widespread terrestrial services there are CenturyLink's DSL and fiber, at 48.9% of locations but with no 100/20 Mbps offer, and Verizon's fixed wireless, at 47.4%; wired 100/20 Mbps reaches 54.6%. Next door, Washington County has the lowest fiber share in the state, 0.1%, and the lowest share with two wired choices, 0.0%. Wired 100/20 service reaches 25.1% of its locations, and at 46.8% fixed wireless is the only way to get that speed. Liberty County (19.3% unserved), Calhoun County (14.5%) and Jackson County (14.2%1) complete the pattern.
| Area | Locations (BSLs) | Unserved | Satellite only | Fixed wireless only at 100/20 | Wired 100/20 Mbps | Fiber available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holmes County, Florida | 9,307 | 20.1% | 10.1% | 7.0% | 54.6% | 37.3% |
| Washington County, Florida | 12,065 | 12.2% | 6.4% | 46.8% | 25.1% | 0.1% |
| Liberty County, Florida | 3,350 | 19.3% | 9.2% | 18.1% | 49.0% | 15.2% |
| Calhoun County, Florida | 6,368 | 14.5% | 4.2% | 2.6% | 68.0% | 47.0% |
| Jackson County, Florida | 21,902 | 14.2% | 6.0% | 10.4% | 53.9% | 4.5% |
| Okaloosa County, Florida | 85,386 | 1.7% | 0.7% | 1.0% | 94.8% | 85.3% |
| Florida | 7,744,217 | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.9% | 96.2% | 68.4% |
| United States | 115,784,915 | 2.4% | 0.8% | 3.6% | 92.3% | 62.6% |
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.
The coast is different. Okaloosa County, on the Gulf, has fiber at 85.3% of its locations and unserved locations at 1.7%. Across the state, 44 of 674 counties have fiber at half or more of their locations, and 341 have two wired choices at half or more.
| Alachua County | 85,523 | 64.8% | 88.0% | 51.9% | 3.9% | Cox | 75.4% ±1.3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker County | 10,450 | 26.3% | 81.2% | 7.5% | 8.3% | Northeast Florida Telephone Company | 72.9% ±5.7 |
| Bay County | 86,096 | 39.6% | 96.1% | 81.2% | 0.8% | Xfinity | 74.4% ±1.3 |
| Bradford County | 11,404 | 38.0% | 71.4% | 5.9% | 8.2% | Xfinity | 61.6% ±4.5 |
| Brevard County | 257,589 | 61.3% | 97.6% | 62.4% | 0.3% | Spectrum | 82.0% ±0.7 |
| Broward County | 460,716 | 71.2% | 99.9% | 74.9% | 0.1% | Xfinity | 80.1% ±0.5 |
| Calhoun County | 6,368 | 47.0% | 68.0% | 7.3% | 14.5% | Consolidated Communications | 54.1% ±4.6 |
| Charlotte County | 112,434 | 72.2% | 97.1% | 63.1% | 0.8% | Xfinity | 74.1% ±1.5 |
| Citrus County | 89,034 | 37.5% | 96.9% | 41.9% | 0.8% | Spectrum | 74.1% ±1.6 |
| Clay County | 83,355 | 74.9% | 94.8% | 67.6% | 1.4% | Xfinity | 79.5% ±1.3 |
| Collier County | 152,434 | 49.6% | 98.2% | 39.8% | 0.7% | Xfinity | 81.0% ±1.0 |
| Columbia County | 29,398 | 39.8% | 77.8% | 25.0% | 4.8% | Xfinity | 54.9% ±2.8 |
| DeSoto County | 14,713 | 40.0% | 90.3% | 25.9% | 2.6% | Xfinity | 54.2% ±3.8 |
| Dixie County | 9,575 | 99.0% | 99.0% | 56.2% | 1.0% | Fiber by Central Florida | 33.1% ±5.8 |
| Duval County | 348,918 | 74.1% | 99.6% | 74.6% | 0.2% | Xfinity | 74.7% ±0.7 |
| Escambia County | 127,351 | 67.5% | 96.1% | 64.8% | 0.4% | AT&T | 77.3% ±1.1 |
| Flagler County | 58,495 | 82.9% | 98.8% | 80.2% | 0.3% | Spectrum | 72.7% ±1.8 |
| Franklin County | 9,478 | 27.9% | 91.7% | 22.0% | 3.9% | Mediacom | 69.3% ±4.8 |
| Gadsden County | 19,686 | 36.6% | 72.7% | 33.8% | 8.2% | Xfinity | 56.1% ±3.0 |
| Gilchrist County | 8,626 | 98.7% | 98.7% | 37.4% | 0.4% | Fiber by Central Florida | 54.2% ±4.1 |
| Glades County | 7,983 | 54.3% | 86.0% | 33.6% | 2.2% | Xfinity | 56.2% ±5.7 |
| Gulf County | 10,777 | 60.9% | 89.6% | 38.9% | 4.8% | Consolidated Communications | 67.1% ±5.1 |
| Hamilton County | 6,005 | 89.8% | 90.2% | 29.3% | 5.9% | Kinetic | 63.3% ±5.0 |
| Hardee County | 10,943 | 26.1% | 78.3% | 1.0% | 0.0% | CenturyLink | 63.4% ±5.7 |
| Hendry County | 18,090 | 33.1% | 84.4% | 10.4% | 0.6% | CenturyLink | 61.5% ±4.4 |
| Hernando County | 94,152 | 66.2% | 97.3% | 60.5% | 0.3% | Spectrum | 78.9% ±1.1 |
| Highlands County | 57,901 | 20.8% | 93.7% | 11.8% | 0.8% | Xfinity | 64.6% ±2.0 |
| Hillsborough County | 473,357 | 84.6% | 97.0% | 83.0% | 0.1% | Spectrum | 80.2% ±0.6 |
| Holmes County | 9,307 | 37.3% | 54.6% | 10.4% | 20.1% | CenturyLink | 30.6% ±3.3 |
| Indian River County | 75,504 | 55.4% | 97.8% | 56.0% | 0.8% | Xfinity | 77.8% ±1.4 |
| Jackson County | 21,902 | 4.5% | 53.9% | 0.2% | 14.2% | CenturyLink | 39.0% ±2.7 |
| Jefferson County | 7,310 | 72.3% | 87.1% | 7.5% | 5.6% | CenturyLink | 49.5% ±4.9 |
| Lafayette County | 3,640 | 62.3% | 64.7% | 14.9% | 12.5% | Kinetic | 59.3% ±7.5 |
| Lake County | 185,105 | 59.0% | 93.9% | 49.3% | 1.4% | AT&T | 79.5% ±0.8 |
| Lee County | 338,655 | 69.9% | 98.1% | 62.0% | 0.4% | Xfinity | 77.3% ±0.7 |
| Leon County | 98,554 | 63.3% | 95.1% | 62.7% | 1.7% | Xfinity | 78.5% ±1.1 |
| Levy County | 24,098 | 76.0% | 76.6% | 47.8% | 5.1% | Fiber by Central Florida | 48.2% ±3.8 |
| Liberty County | 3,350 | 15.2% | 49.0% | 0.1% | 19.3% | Consolidated Communications | 56.3% ±5.4 |
| Madison County | 9,029 | 72.5% | 94.2% | 12.3% | 2.7% | Conexon Connect LLC | 52.0% ±4.4 |
| Manatee County | 182,235 | 75.5% | 97.8% | 69.8% | 0.2% | Spectrum | 80.3% ±0.7 |
| Marion County | 192,938 | 54.5% | 91.0% | 44.8% | 2.8% | CenturyLink | 73.2% ±0.9 |
| Martin County | 64,999 | 47.2% | 97.1% | 47.1% | 1.2% | Xfinity | 78.2% ±1.4 |
| Miami-Dade County | 539,589 | 85.4% | 99.2% | 84.2% | 0.4% | Xfinity | 74.3% ±0.5 |
| Monroe County | 43,418 | 73.3% | 99.2% | 72.0% | 0.5% | Xfinity | 75.5% ±2.0 |
| Nassau County | 42,845 | 76.4% | 91.0% | 71.0% | 2.4% | Xfinity | 71.9% ±2.1 |
| Okaloosa County | 85,386 | 85.3% | 94.8% | 79.7% | 1.7% | Cox | 81.2% ±1.1 |
| Okeechobee County | 18,670 | 27.5% | 93.9% | 11.1% | 1.8% | Xfinity | 63.1% ±3.4 |
| Orange County | 406,909 | 73.9% | 97.1% | 73.0% | 0.3% | Spectrum | 80.5% ±0.7 |
| Osceola County | 156,677 | 71.4% | 96.7% | 66.6% | 0.9% | Spectrum | 77.3% ±1.2 |
| Palm Beach County | 445,347 | 66.3% | 99.4% | 64.8% | 0.2% | Xfinity | 78.4% ±0.5 |
| Pasco County | 267,399 | 79.6% | 97.0% | 72.4% | 0.4% | Spectrum | 80.5% ±0.8 |
| Pinellas County | 340,233 | 63.1% | 96.8% | 86.2% | 0.1% | Spectrum | 77.2% ±0.7 |
| Polk County | 324,583 | 63.6% | 95.9% | 59.5% | 1.4% | Spectrum | 77.7% ±0.7 |
| Putnam County | 38,883 | 16.6% | 66.8% | 13.7% | 13.4% | Xfinity | 60.6% ±2.8 |
| Santa Rosa County | 80,416 | 74.0% | 97.5% | 66.0% | 0.6% | AT&T | 79.4% ±1.3 |
| Sarasota County | 209,213 | 80.6% | 99.1% | 75.2% | 0.2% | Xfinity | 81.0% ±0.7 |
| Seminole County | 153,182 | 78.9% | 97.5% | 78.1% | 0.1% | Spectrum | 85.9% ±0.8 |
| St. Johns County | 122,142 | 80.1% | 98.2% | 73.4% | 0.4% | Xfinity | 81.1% ±1.3 |
| St. Lucie County | 148,704 | 65.5% | 97.4% | 64.8% | 0.6% | Xfinity | 81.1% ±1.0 |
| Sumter County | 87,507 | 40.9% | 95.5% | 50.5% | 1.8% | Xfinity | 76.0% ±2.1 |
| Suwannee County | 20,397 | 83.1% | 85.9% | 35.7% | 4.6% | Kinetic | 65.0% ±3.7 |
| Taylor County | 11,306 | 60.8% | 95.8% | 12.7% | 2.1% | Consolidated Communications | 59.2% ±4.6 |
| Union County | 5,024 | 44.3% | 49.8% | 13.1% | 14.8% | Kinetic | 68.0% ±5.4 |
| Volusia County | 239,588 | 70.3% | 97.9% | 66.4% | 0.4% | Spectrum | 71.9% ±0.9 |
| Wakulla County | 15,778 | 4.1% | 77.5% | 2.1% | 9.9% | CenturyLink | 71.5% ±3.3 |
| Walton County | 51,479 | 59.2% | 84.4% | 51.0% | 4.0% | CenturyLink | 73.5% ±2.4 |
| Washington County | 12,065 | 0.1% | 25.1% | 0.0% | 12.2% | AT&T | 30.9% ±3.5 |
| Florida | 7,744,217 | 68.4% | 96.2% | 66.0% | 0.9% | 77.3% |
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year detailed tables. Shares of broadband serviceable locations as of June 30, 2026 (FCC). 2+ wired choices: two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps. Unserved: BEAD definition. Largest wired provider: reports fiber, cable or DSL at the most locations. Wired subscription: households with a cable, fiber or DSL subscription, American Community Survey 2020–2024 (± 90% margin of error).
Subscriptions, Lifeline and the end of ACP
No official source publishes typical internet prices for Florida, and the FCC map carries none. Lifeline, the FCC's monthly discount for low-income households, had 163,4326 Florida subscribers, and USAC estimates that 12.2%7 of eligible households take part. The Affordable Connectivity Program had 1,707,8568 Florida households enrolled when it stopped taking sign-ups in February 2024; it ended on June 1, 2024.
Subscriptions have risen since 2019. In the Census Bureau's 2025 survey, 94.7% of Florida households had a broadband subscription of any type (margin of error ±0.2 percentage points), against 86.8% in 2019, and the share with no internet subscription fell from 13.0%10 to 5.2%. 85.4% of Florida households earning under $20,000 had broadband (margin of error ±0.8 percentage points), the 6th highest share among the states by point estimate, against 97.4% of those earning $75,000 or more. 13.0%9 relied only on a cellular data plan.
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) | 96.2% | |
| Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census) | 78.5% | ±0.3 |
| Households relying only on a cellular data plan | 13.0% | ±0.2 |
| Households with no internet subscription | 5.2% | ±0.2 |
BEAD in Florida: a low cost per location
Florida's plan is cheap per location and spends a small part of the money. Under the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program the state was allocated $1.17 billion (13th highest11); its approved Final Proposal uses $229.7 million for 73,944 locations, $3,106 each, a cost that ranks 7th lowest among the state plans, and the providers add $246.2 million12, slightly more than the public share.
Source: NTIA BroadbandUSA, BEAD Final Proposal Overview one-page PDFs. Locations in the state's approved BEAD Final Proposal by technology of the selected projects, as printed in NTIA's Final Proposal overview; subject to NTIA and NIST final review and award.
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| Technology | Share of BEAD locations |
|---|---|
| Fiber | 47.2% |
| Cable | 13.6% |
| Fixed wireless | 13.0% |
| Low-Earth-orbit satellite | 26.2% |
34,881 locations (47.2%) are assigned to fiber, a fiber share that ranks 12th lowest among the plans. Low-Earth-orbit satellite takes 19,363 (26.2%), fixed wireless 9,614 (13.0%) and cable 13.6%. That leaves $940.3 million12 of the allocation outside the construction plan; how it may be used was not settled as of November 2026. FloridaCommerce's Office of Broadband publishes the plan and its documents on its BEAD program page.
Other federal programs predate BEAD. Florida received $366.0 million13 from the Treasury's Capital Projects Fund, and providers in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund have reported 51,42114 Florida locations as built.
| Program | Amount | As of |
|---|---|---|
| BEAD allocation (NTIA, announced June 26, 2023) | $1,169,947,393 | |
| BEAD Final Proposal: locations to be connected | 73,944 | |
| BEAD Final Proposal: deployment cost | $229,662,147 | |
| BEAD cost per location | $3,106 | |
| BEAD allocation not assigned to deployment | $940,285,246 | |
| Treasury Capital Projects Fund allocation | $366,036,869 | |
| RDOF: locations built with support (cumulative) | 51,421 | |
| USDA ReConnect grants reported to USAspending | $0 | |
| Lifeline subscribers claimed | 163,432 | |
| Lifeline participation rate | 12.2% | |
| Households in the Affordable Connectivity Program, February 2024 | 1,707,856 |
Source: NTIA BroadbandUSA, BEAD Award Recipients pages; NTIA BroadbandUSA, BEAD Final Proposal Overview one-page PDFs; Department of the Treasury, Capital Projects Fund Awards Made to States, Territories, and Freely Associated States, to date; USAC, CAF Disbursements and Locations Data; Department of the Treasury, spending_by_award API for Assistance Listings 10.752; Universal Service Administrative Co., Lifeline Disbursements; USAC, Lifeline participation rate; USAC, ACP Enrollments by County as of February 8, 2024. BEAD figures are as printed in NTIA's Final Proposal overview, subject to final review; "not assigned to deployment" is the allocation minus the deployment cost (NTIA calls it savings; how it may be used is not settled). The ACP stopped taking applications on February 8, 2024 and ended on June 1, 2024.
Florida's larger cities
Miami has fiber at 76.8% of its locations (AT&T reports fiber at 76.3%; Optimum's Lightpath fiber there is filed for business customers only and is not counted) and Jacksonville at 73.3%; Orlando, at 69.7%, has two or more wired choices at 63.2%1. Every Florida city and town of 50,000 or more is listed below.
| Jacksonville | 1,017,689 | 73.3% | 90.3% | 73.8% | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami | 489,812 | 76.8% | 99.1% | 78.5% | 7 |
| Tampa | 413,554 | 87.9% | 87.8% | 86.8% | 7 |
| Orlando | 333,888 | 69.7% | 69.5% | 63.2% | 8 |
| Port St. Lucie | 268,062 | 82.1% | 92.3% | 81.8% | 7 |
| St. Petersburg | 264,033 | 69.9% | 69.9% | 92.8% | 5 |
| Cape Coral | 236,264 | 94.0% | 96.4% | 91.2% | 6 |
| Hialeah | 230,968 | 83.9% | 99.2% | 79.3% | 6 |
| Tallahassee | 204,902 | 78.0% | 82.7% | 78.0% | 5 |
| Fort Lauderdale | 188,677 | 68.5% | 97.5% | 70.9% | 6 |
| Pembroke Pines | 176,714 | 87.2% | 97.9% | 86.4% | 4 |
| Hollywood | 157,019 | 77.0% | 99.5% | 77.8% | 6 |
| Gainesville | 148,671 | 62.9% | 87.2% | 60.9% | 6 |
| Palm Bay | 148,092 | 62.6% | 62.6% | 66.3% | 5 |
| Miramar | 142,570 | 86.8% | 98.8% | 86.8% | 4 |
| Coral Springs | 138,783 | 80.9% | 83.1% | 88.0% | 5 |
| West Palm Beach | 127,189 | 67.6% | 92.9% | 69.4% | 7 |
| Lakeland | 125,520 | 62.9% | 62.9% | 61.9% | 5 |
| Pompano Beach | 117,211 | 61.4% | 99.8% | 65.8% | 6 |
| Clearwater | 114,364 | 57.0% | 57.0% | 91.7% | 5 |
| Miami Gardens | 113,579 | 95.4% | 99.3% | 95.5% | 3 |
| Davie | 110,851 | 62.7% | 90.6% | 65.0% | 4 |
| Palm Coast | 109,886 | 94.8% | 94.8% | 93.5% | 7 |
| Boca Raton | 101,582 | 61.5% | 95.8% | 66.2% | 5 |
| Fort Myers | 101,581 | 55.0% | 83.0% | 44.4% | 7 |
| Deltona | 100,267 | 76.4% | 76.4% | 76.4% | 5 |
| Plantation | 99,183 | 65.2% | 85.3% | 70.5% | 5 |
| Sunrise | 98,846 | 66.9% | 86.6% | 74.9% | 6 |
| North Port | 96,551 | 83.4% | 87.6% | 73.2% | 4 |
| Deerfield Beach | 89,339 | 60.4% | 97.5% | 68.5% | 5 |
| Daytona Beach | 88,471 | 71.2% | 71.2% | 68.9% | 8 |
| Melbourne | 87,097 | 68.6% | 68.6% | 68.7% | 6 |
| Homestead | 86,242 | 84.5% | 93.7% | 74.9% | 4 |
| Kissimmee | 85,591 | 71.9% | 69.9% | 72.1% | 8 |
| Boynton Beach | 82,396 | 60.3% | 79.5% | 63.3% | 5 |
| Doral | 81,634 | 84.5% | 98.7% | 69.7% | 4 |
| Miami Beach | 81,594 | 74.6% | 95.9% | 71.6% | 5 |
| Largo | 80,690 | 46.9% | 46.9% | 62.0% | 4 |
| Lauderhill | 75,668 | 71.5% | 96.3% | 75.5% | 5 |
| St. Cloud | 74,960 | 74.9% | 75.5% | 74.8% | 3 |
| Tamarac | 74,134 | 64.6% | 76.7% | 69.4% | 7 |
| Ocala | 71,753 | 63.4% | 81.8% | 59.9% | 11 |
| Delray Beach | 69,809 | 45.1% | 76.3% | 48.9% | 5 |
| Weston | 69,588 | 74.9% | 88.4% | 93.1% | 4 |
| Sanford | 67,483 | 70.3% | 70.3% | 68.8% | 4 |
| Port Orange | 66,395 | 74.7% | 74.7% | 74.2% | 7 |
| Apopka | 65,552 | 85.4% | 84.3% | 80.5% | 6 |
| Palm Beach Gardens | 63,883 | 72.0% | 79.9% | 64.3% | 6 |
| Wellington | 62,662 | 71.7% | 98.3% | 72.2% | 3 |
| Jupiter | 62,350 | 64.5% | 71.4% | 59.4% | 4 |
| Winter Haven | 62,313 | 63.3% | 63.8% | 62.5% | 6 |
| North Miami | 60,884 | 82.9% | 99.4% | 84.7% | 5 |
| Margate | 60,070 | 47.2% | 96.9% | 59.1% | 5 |
| Coconut Creek | 58,626 | 65.9% | 93.1% | 70.3% | 3 |
| Sarasota | 58,458 | 75.8% | 85.0% | 75.3% | 5 |
| Bradenton | 58,014 | 76.9% | 75.9% | 74.3% | 5 |
| Bonita Springs | 57,634 | 60.4% | 68.3% | 46.6% | 7 |
| Pensacola | 53,817 | 85.6% | 95.3% | 82.4% | 4 |
| Clermont | 52,812 | 61.3% | 59.6% | 53.0% | 6 |
| Pinellas Park | 52,295 | 54.8% | 54.8% | 58.4% | 5 |
| Ocoee | 51,932 | 61.8% | 61.1% | 62.8% | 6 |
| Fort Pierce | 51,737 | 37.5% | 55.1% | 35.6% | 5 |
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates; Census Bureau, 2020 Census Block Assignment Files. Shares of broadband serviceable locations inside city limits (2020 census blocks), as of June 30, 2026. Population: July 1, 2025 estimate. Gigabit: 1,000/100 Mbps.
Florida internet questions
What internet providers are available in Florida?
Leaving out satellite, the providers that report the widest reach are T-Mobile (78.1% of locations), AT&T (70.0%) and Verizon (65.3%), much of it licensed fixed wireless such as 5G home internet. The largest wired networks are Xfinity (49.4%), Spectrum (40.1%), AT&T's fiber (37.3%) and Frontier (15.9%1). Figures are as of June 30, 2026.
How much of Florida has fiber internet?
As of June 30, 2026, at least one provider reported fiber at 68.4% of Florida's broadband serviceable locations, against 38.2%2 in June 2022. 61 different companies report fiber somewhere in the state, and 10.4%1 of locations have two or more fiber networks.
How many people in Florida lack broadband?
Measured in homes and businesses, the FCC's unit, 71,538 Florida locations (0.9%) had no reliable wired or licensed fixed wireless service of 25/3 Mbps as of June 30, 2026, mostly in inland Panhandle counties such as Holmes and Washington; 78,1671 more had reliable service below 100/20. In the Census Bureau's 2025 survey, 5.2%9 of Florida households had no internet subscription of any kind.
How much BEAD money does Florida get?
Florida's share is $1.17 billion11, but its approved plan uses only $229.7 million of it, for 73,944 locations at $3,106 each. That leaves $940.3 million12 outside the construction plan.
What is the cheapest internet in Florida?
There is no official price survey for Florida, and the FCC map lists availability only. Prices and fees for each plan are on the provider's broadband facts label. For low-income households the remaining federal discount is Lifeline, $9.25 a month, used by 163,4326 Florida subscribers.
Checking one address in Florida
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 and around Florida
Large cities with their own page: Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Port St. Lucie, St. Petersburg, Cape Coral, Hialeah, Tallahassee, Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, Hollywood, Gainesville, Palm Bay, Miramar, Coral Springs, West Palm Beach, Lakeland, Pompano Beach, Clearwater, Miami Gardens, Davie, Palm Coast, Boca Raton, Fort Myers and Deltona.
Neighboring states: Alabama and Georgia. Put Florida side by side with any state or large city in the comparison tool.
| Ranking | Value | Rank (1 = highest) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiber internet availability by state | 68.4% | 23rd of 51 |
| Internet speed by state: where gigabit service is offered | 76.9% | 21st of 51 |
| Broadband coverage by state | 96.2% | 14th of 51 |
| Internet provider competition by state | 66.0% | 10th of 51 |
| Unserved and underserved broadband locations by state | 0.9% | 41st of 51 |
| Where fiber has grown since 2022 | 30.2% | 22nd of 51 |
| 5G home internet and licensed fixed wireless by state | 91.4% | 10th of 51 |
| Households with an internet subscription by state | 94.7% | tied 10th of 51 |
| BEAD broadband funding by state | 3,106.0% | 44th of 50 |
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, Cartographic boundary file cb_2025_us_county_5m. www2.census.gov
- Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year detailed tables; 2020-2024; released January 29, 2026. api.census.gov
- Universal Service Administrative Co., Lifeline Disbursements; Support months 2018-01 to 2026-09. opendata.usac.org
- USAC, Lifeline participation rate; released August 17, 2026. www.usac.org
- USAC, ACP Enrollments by County as of February 8, 2024; Enrolled households as of 2024-02-08 (Data Month January 2024 file). www.usac.org
- Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables; 2025 (calendar-year sample); released October 29, 2026. api.census.gov
- Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 1-year detailed tables; 2019. api.census.gov
- NTIA BroadbandUSA, BEAD Award Recipients pages; Allocations announced 2023-06-26; released June 26, 2023. broadbandusa.ntia.gov
- NTIA BroadbandUSA, BEAD Final Proposal Overview one-page PDFs. broadbandusa.ntia.gov
- Department of the Treasury, Capital Projects Fund Awards Made to States, Territories, and Freely Associated States, to date; Allocations under ARPA sec. 604 (awards announced 2022-06 to 2023). home.treasury.gov
- USAC, CAF Disbursements and Locations Data. opendata.usac.org
- Department of the Treasury, spending_by_award API for Assistance Listings 10.752; Awards with action dates FY2008 to 2026-09-30. api.usaspending.gov
- Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates; July 1, 2025; released May 14, 2026. www.census.gov
- Census Bureau, 2020 Census Block Assignment Files; released December 11, 2020. www2.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.