Augusta, Georgia internet providers and fiber
Fiber is available at 34.0% of the 71,801 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Augusta, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 99.1%. 68.4% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 30.7% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
Augusta in Georgia
Augusta is a cable city with two cable companies. Xfinity reports service at 98.4% of its homes and businesses and WOW! at 54.7%, almost always at the same locations, while fiber reaches 34.0%1, about half the Georgia share. Households subscribe less often than the wires would suggest: 8.9%2 have no internet subscription.
Who reports service in Augusta
The FCC counts 71,8011 homes and businesses in Augusta, using the Census Bureau's 2020 boundary of the consolidated Augusta-Richmond County government. Every company below filed availability for those locations as of June 30, 2026 (FCC revision of November 10, 2026). Listing a location means the company already serves it or could complete a standard installation there within ten business days. Anyone can dispute a listing on the FCC National Broadband Map, which is also where a single address is checked.
| Xfinity | Fiber Cable | 98.4% | 98.4% | 2 Gbps | 30.1% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T-Mobile | Licensed wireless | 88.6% | 18.5% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 85.7% | 42.5% | 300 Mbps | – |
| AT&T | Fiber DSL Licensed wireless | 76.9% | 36.2% | 5 Gbps | 0.0% |
| WOW! | Cable | 54.7% | 54.7% | 1.2 Gbps | 0.6% |
| West Carolina Rural Telephone Cooperative Inc | Fiber | 0.1% | 0.1% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Velofi | Fiber | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Intellipop | 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, Viasat, Starlink) report service at nearly every location and are left out of the table.
Three wired networks carry most of the city. Xfinity reports service at 98.4% of locations, with a fastest advertised download of 2 Gbps. AT&T is listed at 76.9%, but over three technologies: fiber at 33.8% of locations, and copper DSL or its own fixed wireless at the rest, so it offers 100/20 Mbps at only 36.2%. WOW! reports service at 54.7%1.
Of the 5 companies reporting fiber, only AT&T reaches a large part of the city. West Carolina Rural Telephone Cooperative lists 103 locations and Velofi 17; Xfinity's own fiber covers 0.1%1.
Fiber at a third of the city, half Georgia's rate
Fiber is reported at 34.0% of Augusta's locations. Georgia as a whole is at 70.3% and the US at 62.6%, and among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more Augusta ranks tied for 38th lowest. No other Georgia city of 100,000 or more is as low; Macon, the next lowest, is at 49.3%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 | Fiber available |
|---|---|
| South Fulton | 89.5% |
| Atlanta | 78.1% |
| Sandy Springs | 73.7% |
| Georgia | 70.3% |
| United States | 62.6% |
| Savannah | 62.2% |
| Columbus | 61.3% |
| Athens | 57.1% |
| Macon | 49.3% |
| Augusta | 34.0% |
The share is rising slowly: 23.5%3 in June 2022, 31.6%4 in December 2025, 34.0% now. Since the first map the gain is 10.5 percentage points, which ranks 116th lowest among large cities. AT&T now lists 55,1761 Augusta locations across its three technologies, far more than in June 2022, but much of that growth is not fiber. Its fiber is still the only large network that gives a home a second kind of wire next to cable.
Competing fiber networks are almost absent. Two or more separate fiber providers reach 0.0% of locations, as they did in June 2022; among large cities, Augusta is tied for the lowest on this measure. Georgia's share is 9.9%1.
Two cable networks at the same addresses
Augusta has two cable companies, and they overlap. WOW! is the only wired provider at 100/20 Mbps at 0.6% of locations: nearly everywhere it has built, Xfinity's cable is there too. Xfinity, in turn, is the only fast wire at 30.1%1 of locations, where neither WOW! nor AT&T fiber offers that speed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augusta | 0.9% | 30.7% | 48.5% | 19.9% |
| Georgia | 4.0% | 34.0% | 51.7% | 10.3% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
With a second cable company in place, Augusta has more wired choice than Georgia as a whole while having far less fiber. Two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps reach 68.4% of locations, against 62.0% statewide and 55.6% nationally, and three or more reach 19.9%, against 10.3% for Georgia. Columbus works differently: WOW! reports cable there at 85.6%1 of locations and Xfinity at almost none, so the second wire is fiber rather than a second cable company.
Exactly one wired choice at 100/20 Mbps remains at 30.7%1 of Augusta's locations, against 35.6%3 in June 2022.
Gigabit is advertised almost everywhere now
The biggest change since 2022 is in advertised top speeds, not in who reaches the city. The FCC's gigabit tier, 1,000 Mbps download with at least 100 Mbps upload, was advertised at 23.5% of locations in June 2022, the same share as fiber then, and is advertised at 91.5% now. Wired 100/100 Mbps service moved the same way, to 91.5%. With fiber still at 34.0%, most of that gigabit footprint is now reported over cable. A fastest advertised download of 2 Gbps or more is reported at 90.6% of locations, against 15.0%3 in 2022 and 70.5%1 across Georgia.
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 | 23.5% | 31.6% | 34.0% | 10.5 pts |
| Gigabit (1,000/100) | 23.5% | 85.9% | 91.5% | 68.0 pts |
| Wired 100/100 Mbps | 23.5% | 85.9% | 91.5% | 68.0 pts |
| Two or more wired choices | 63.0% | 66.1% | 68.4% | 5.5 pts |
| Fixed wireless 100/20 | 8.6% | 50.1% | 51.1% | 42.5 pts |
Every speed here is the most a provider advertises, not a test result. Prices are not part of the FCC filings; the broadband facts label each provider must publish gives plan prices.
5G home internet from T-Mobile and Verizon
T-Mobile reports fixed wireless home internet (5G or LTE) at 88.6% of Augusta's locations, with a fastest advertised download of 100 Mbps, and offers 100/20 Mbps at 18.5%. Verizon reports 85.7%, with 100/20 Mbps at 42.5% and a top tier of 300 Mbps; its count of Augusta locations is about five times what it was in June 2022. Licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps or faster now reaches 51.1%1 of the city, up from 8.6%3. Wireless sign-ups depend on spare capacity at the nearest tower, so a listed address can still be declined.
The few hundred locations without fast service
Gaps in Augusta are counted in hundreds, though they are a little larger than in most big cities. 456 locations have no land-based provider at 100/20 Mbps, wired or fixed wireless, a share of 0.6% that ranks tied for 143rd highest among large cities. 165 reach that speed only by fixed wireless, and 36 are reported reachable by satellite alone. 120 count as unserved for the federal BEAD program, meaning nothing wired or licensed fixed wireless at even 25/3 Mbps; that share fell from 0.9%3 in 2022 to 0.2%1.
Fewer subscriptions than the wires suggest
Near-universal wired coverage has not meant near-universal subscription. In the Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey, 91.0% of Augusta households had a broadband subscription of any type (margin of error ±2.4 percentage points), tied for 19th lowest among large cities, against 94.4% for Georgia. 8.9% had no internet subscription (±2.4 percentage points), compared with 5.5%2 statewide; the margins do not overlap.
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) | 99.1% | |
| Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census) | 76.1% | ±3.5 |
| Households relying only on a cellular data plan | 12.0% | ±2.4 |
| Households with no internet subscription | 8.9% | ±2.4 |
Phones fill part of the gap. 16.8% of households used a smartphone as their only computing device (±3.1 percentage points), against 10.4% in Georgia, and 12.0%2 relied only on a cellular data plan. The share without any subscription has halved since 2019, when it was 17.9% (±2.8 percentage points5); the two estimates' margins do not overlap. Census figures are survey estimates of households, while the FCC counts addresses on a single date, so they cannot be subtracted from each other.
The Georgia page maps Richmond County beside the state's other counties and shows Georgia's BEAD plan; the Columbus and Atlanta pages cover the state's other large wired markets.
Augusta internet questions
What internet providers are available in Augusta, Georgia?
As of June 30, 2026, Xfinity reports service at 98.4% of Augusta's locations (cable), AT&T at 76.9% (fiber at 33.8%, DSL or fixed wireless elsewhere) and WOW! at 54.7% (cable). T-Mobile (88.6%) and Verizon (85.7%1) report fixed wireless home internet, and HughesNet, Starlink and Viasat report satellite service everywhere.
Is fiber internet available in Augusta?
At 34.0% of locations inside the city, almost all of it AT&T's, against 70.3% for Georgia and 62.6% for the US. That share ranks tied for 38th lowest1 among the 343 largest US cities. The FCC map shows whether one address has fiber.
Is WOW! internet available in Augusta?
WOW! reports service at 54.7% of Augusta's locations, with a fastest advertised download of 1.2 Gbps. It is the only wired provider at 100/20 Mbps at just 0.6%1 of locations, because Xfinity's cable also runs almost everywhere WOW! does.
How many internet providers does Augusta have?
6 companies report wired service somewhere in the city and 8 report any land-based service, including fixed wireless. At a typical location, 1.871 wired providers offer 100/20 Mbps, on average.
Checking one address in Augusta
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 Georgia
The state picture, county by county: internet in Georgia. Other large cities in the state: Atlanta, Columbus, Macon, Savannah, Athens, South Fulton and Sandy Springs. Compare Augusta 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
- Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables; 2025 (calendar-year sample); released October 29, 2026. api.census.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
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.