Internet in Tampa, Florida
Fiber is available at 87.9% of the 112,341 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Tampa, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 95.5%. 86.8% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 8.8% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
Tampa in Florida
Tampa is a two-wire city. Spectrum's cable network and Frontier's fiber network both reach most of its homes and businesses, so 86.8%1 of locations have exactly two wired providers at 100/20 Mbps, among the highest shares of any large US city, and almost none have a third. DSL over copper phone lines, still reported at 37.8%2 of locations in 2022, has all but disappeared from the map.
Spectrum and Frontier: the two networks
Two companies wire Tampa. Spectrum reports service at 95.4% of the city's 112,341 homes and businesses, almost all of it over cable, with a fastest advertised download of 1 Gbps. Frontier reports service at 87.0%, and at nearly every one of those locations the service is fiber; it advertises up to 7 Gbps1. Everything else in the table below is either fixed wireless, satellite, or a fiber company serving a few dozen buildings.
| Spectrum | Fiber Cable | 95.4% | 95.4% | 1 Gbps | 8.6% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier | Fiber DSL | 87.0% | 86.9% | 7 Gbps | 0.2% |
| T-Mobile | Licensed wireless | 81.1% | 32.3% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Rapid Systems | Licensed wireless | 77.4% | 0.0% | 50 Mbps | – |
| AT&T | Licensed wireless | 62.7% | 7.0% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 6.3% | 5.3% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Hotwire Communications | Fiber | 0.0% | 0.0% | 8 Gbps | – |
| Blue Stream | Fiber | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.5 Gbps | – |
| Summit Broadband Inc. | Fiber | 0.0% | 0.0% | – | – |
| Tillman Fiber | Fiber | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2 Gbps | – |
| Zentro | Fiber | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1 Gbps | – |
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.
These are the providers' own reports to the FCC as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026), for locations inside Tampa's city limits as drawn for the 2020 Census. A provider lists a location as served if it can install service there within ten business days; anyone can challenge that claim on the FCC map, which is also the only public source for what is reported at one address.
Two wires at almost every address, three at almost none
Wired service of at least 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload is reported at 95.5% of locations. At 86.8%, exactly two wired providers offer that speed, a share that ranks 23rd highest among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more; across Florida the figure is 54.2%. Three or more wired providers are reported at 0.0% of locations. The average Tampa location has 1.821 wired providers at 100/20 Mbps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tampa | 4.5% | 8.8% | 86.8% | 0.0% |
| St. Petersburg | 2.8% | 4.5% | 24.3% | 68.5% |
| Florida | 3.8% | 30.2% | 54.2% | 11.8% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
The single-wire locations are Spectrum's: it is the only wired provider at 100/20 Mbps at 8.6% of locations, largely the places where Frontier does not report fiber. Frontier is the only one at 0.2%. A group of 5,034 locations has no wired provider at that speed, and 10 are reported with satellite service only. The two-wire pattern has barely moved since 2022: the share with two or more fell by 0.9 percentage points, from 87.7%2 to 86.8%1.
Fiber was already here in 2022
Tampa's fiber share barely moved between the first National Broadband Map and this one, because it was already high: fiber was reported at 88.2%2 of locations as of June 30, 2022, and is at 87.9% now, a change of −0.3 percentage points. Among large cities, Tampa's fiber share ranks tied for 94th highest, while its change since 2022 ranks 13th lowest1. Frontier is the company that took over Verizon's wireline telephone and FiOS fiber operations in Florida, a transfer the FCC approved in September 2015.
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 | 88.2% | 87.8% | 87.9% | −0.3 pts |
| DSL available | 37.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | −37.8 pts |
| Fixed wireless 100/20 | 23.9% | 64.7% | 39.5% | 15.6 pts |
| Two or more wired choices | 87.7% | 86.5% | 86.8% | −0.9 pts |
The count of fiber companies is longer than the map suggests. 7 providers report fiber somewhere in the city, up from 42 in 2022, but apart from Frontier and Spectrum (1.2% of locations) several report only a few dozen locations or fewer: Hotwire Communications, for example, lists 14 locations. Two or more fiber networks overlap at only 0.3%1 of locations.
Copper has left the map
In June 2022, DSL over telephone copper was reported at 37.8% of Tampa's locations. By December 2025 it was 0.0%3, and now it is 0.0%: DSL remains at just 8 locations. Among large cities, Tampa's DSL share now ranks tied for the lowest, while DSL is still reported at 43.5% of locations across Florida. Across the bay, St. Petersburg shows the same pattern, from 63.2%2 in 2022 to 0.1%1. The FCC data record what each provider reports, not why a technology was dropped from a filing; for a household, the result is that the slow copper option no longer appears beside fiber.
Download speeds look alike; uploads do not
A 1 Gbps download is advertised at 95.5% of locations, because both networks offer it. The difference is upload speed. In Tampa, uploads of 100 Mbps or more are advertised almost only where there is fiber, so the FCC's 1,000/100 tier (gigabit download with at least 100 Mbps upload) is advertised at 87.8%, roughly the fiber share. That figure was 89.6%3 in December 2025, a fall of 1.7 percentage points. At 86.9%1 of locations the fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more; at most of the rest it is between 940 Mbps and 2 Gbps. These are maximums providers report to the FCC, not measured speeds.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tampa | 1.4% | 0.9% | 2.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 8.6% | 86.9% |
| 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% |
Fixed wireless: wide footprints, slower plans
Licensed fixed wireless, which includes 5G home internet, is reported at 96.1% of locations by 4 providers. Reach and speed differ widely. T-Mobile reports service at 81.1% of locations and 100/20 Mbps at 32.3%. Rapid Systems reports 77.4% with a top advertised speed of 50 Mbps. AT&T reports no wired service in Tampa; its fixed wireless, which it did not report here in the 2022 map, now covers 62.7% of locations, with 100/20 at 7.0%. Verizon reports a smaller footprint, 6.3%, but advertises up to 1 Gbps1 there.
The share of locations with licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps has swung between filings: 23.9%2 in June 2022, 64.7%3 in December 2025 and 39.5%1 now. Wireless capacity is shared by everyone on a tower sector, and carriers revise where they report service from one filing to the next, so these shares are less stable than the wired ones.
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 | Tampa | Florida |
|---|---|---|
| Fiber | 87.9% | 68.4% |
| Cable | 95.2% | 87.4% |
| DSL (copper) | 0.0% | 43.5% |
| Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home) | 96.1% | 91.4% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless | 0.0% | 1.8% |
More households subscribe than in 2019
The Census Bureau's American Community Survey counts households rather than locations. In 2025, 96.7% of Tampa households had a broadband subscription of any type (margin of error ±0.8 percentage points), up from 90.4% (±1.2 percentage points) in 2019. The share with no internet subscription fell from 9.6% (±1.2 percentage points) to 3.3% (±0.8 percentage points); the margins do not overlap. Wired subscriptions (cable, fiber or DSL) rose from 75.7%5 to 82.7%, and 10.5%4 of households rely on a cellular data plan alone.
Tampa beside St. Petersburg and Florida's other large cities
St. Petersburg, across the bay, has Spectrum and Frontier too, plus a second cable network: WOW! reports cable service at 92.0% of its locations. Frontier's fiber there reaches 50.7% and fiber from any provider 69.9%. With three wires at many locations, only 24.3% of locations have exactly two wired providers at 100/20 Mbps and 68.5% have three or more. Tampa has more fiber than Miami (76.8%), Orlando (69.7%) or Jacksonville (73.3%1).
| Area | Fiber available | Two wired choices | Three or more wired choices | Gigabit (1,000/100) | DSL available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tampa, Florida | 87.9% | 86.8% | 0.0% | 87.8% | 0.0% |
| St. Petersburg, Florida | 69.9% | 24.3% | 68.5% | 69.9% | 0.1% |
| Miami, Florida | 76.8% | 77.3% | 1.2% | 99.1% | 75.7% |
| Orlando, Florida | 69.7% | 59.2% | 4.1% | 69.5% | 54.8% |
| Jacksonville, Florida | 73.3% | 63.1% | 10.7% | 90.3% | 55.1% |
| Florida | 68.4% | 54.2% | 11.8% | 76.9% | 43.5% |
| United States | 62.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% | 72.3% | 36.2% |
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.
In Hillsborough County as a whole, 14.0%1 of locations have a single wired provider at 100/20 Mbps; the Florida page has the county map.
Questions and answers
What internet providers are available in Tampa?
Two wired providers cover almost the whole city: Spectrum (95.4% of locations, mostly cable) and Frontier (87.0%, fiber). T-Mobile (81.1%), Rapid Systems (77.4%), AT&T (62.7%) and Verizon (6.3%1) report fixed wireless home internet, and HughesNet, Viasat and Starlink report satellite service citywide. Figures are as of June 30, 2026.
Is fiber internet available in Tampa?
Fiber is reported at 87.9% of Tampa's locations as of June 30, 2026, against 68.4% across Florida and 62.6% nationally. Almost all of it is Frontier's network, which reports fiber at 87.0% of locations. Spectrum reports fiber at 1.2%1.
How many internet providers are there in Tampa?
7 wired providers report service somewhere in the city and 11 report any non-satellite service. At a single address the choice is narrower: 86.8% of locations have two wired providers at 100/20 Mbps, 8.8% have one, and 0.0%1 have three or more.
Is 5G home internet available in Tampa?
T-Mobile reports fixed wireless home internet at 81.1% of locations, but offers 100/20 Mbps at only 32.3%. Verizon reports 6.3% and AT&T 62.7%1. Carriers decide eligibility address by address, so these shares show where service is reported, not where every home can sign up.
Checking one address in Tampa
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 Florida
The state picture, county by county: internet in Florida. Other large cities in the state: Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Port St. Lucie, St. Petersburg, Cape Coral, Hialeah, Tallahassee, Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, Hollywood and Gainesville. Compare Tampa 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 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
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.