Where fiber internet grew between 2022 and 2026

Fiber to the premises was reported at 62.6% of the homes and businesses the FCC counts as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026), 72.5 million locations. In the first National Broadband Map, as of June 30, 2022, the share was 37.2%¹: a rise of 25.4 percentage points² in four years. A location is a house, an apartment building or a business, counted once. "Reported" means a provider told the FCC it can install fiber there within ten business days; each listing can be challenged on the FCC National Broadband Map. Because the FCC rebuilds its location list with every release, the comparisons below use shares, not counts of places.

The gains followed three patterns. In the largest cities, most of the new fiber is AT&T's. The steepest jumps, from almost nothing to almost everywhere, came in mid-size cities and rural counties where one regional network now reaches nearly every location. And some fiber on the map is filed for business customers only, which this site does not count. By state, Maine gained the most (+48.4 percentage points²); the state ranking covers that view.

Big cities: most new fiber is one telephone company's

The large cities with the most locations gained fiber unevenly, and where they gained a lot, one company's filing accounts for most of it.

In Houston fiber went from 57.9% to 81.9% of locations, and AT&T alone reports fiber at 76.4%. The pattern repeats in Jacksonville (43.2% to 73.3%; AT&T fiber at 63.8%), Memphis (32.1% to 62.1%; AT&T at 56.9%), Oklahoma City (AT&T at 72.2%) and Tucson, where fiber rose from 6.1%¹ to 34.0% and AT&T reports 32.2%². A second fiber network is still the exception in these cities: the last column shows the share of locations with two or more fiber providers.

Two of the three most populous cities moved far less. Fiber in Los Angeles went from 39.7% to 51.9%, and in Chicago from 32.5%¹ to 36.6%, one of the smallest gains among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more. In both, cable already reached nearly every location: it is reported at 95.3% of Los Angeles and 99.4%² of Chicago.

The steepest jumps: one new network in a mid-size city

The largest percentage-point gains among those cities were not in big metros.

Simi Valley, California96.9 pts

Rio Rancho, New Mexico95.7 pts

Brockton, Massachusetts90.1 pts

Greeley, Colorado89.9 pts

Yuma, Arizona88.9 pts

Norfolk, Virginia87.5 pts

Tyler, Texas85.0 pts

West Jordan, Utah82.1 pts

Alexandria, Virginia77.8 pts

Killeen, Texas77.4 pts

Lowell, Massachusetts76.5 pts

Suffolk, Virginia74.8 pts

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma73.2 pts

Pueblo, Colorado72.4 pts

Sugar Land, Texas72.0 pts

Deltona, Florida70.4 pts

Lancaster, California68.5 pts

Surprise, Arizona66.8 pts

Des Moines, Iowa66.2 pts

Palm Coast, Florida63.6 pts

Westminster, Colorado62.3 pts

United States25.4 pts

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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Large city	Fiber available: change since June 30, 2022
Simi Valley, California	96.9 pts
Rio Rancho, New Mexico	95.7 pts
Brockton, Massachusetts	90.1 pts
Greeley, Colorado	89.9 pts
Yuma, Arizona	88.9 pts
Norfolk, Virginia	87.5 pts
Tyler, Texas	85.0 pts
West Jordan, Utah	82.1 pts
Alexandria, Virginia	77.8 pts
Killeen, Texas	77.4 pts
Lowell, Massachusetts	76.5 pts
Suffolk, Virginia	74.8 pts
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma	73.2 pts
Pueblo, Colorado	72.4 pts
Sugar Land, Texas	72.0 pts
Deltona, Florida	70.4 pts
Lancaster, California	68.5 pts
Surprise, Arizona	66.8 pts
Des Moines, Iowa	66.2 pts
Palm Coast, Florida	63.6 pts
Westminster, Colorado	62.3 pts
United States	25.4 pts

In most of these cities nearly all the fiber belongs to one company that is neither a national telephone company nor the local cable operator. Simi Valley, the highest on this measure, went from 3.1%¹ to 99.9%, and it got two networks at once: Anthem Connect reports fiber at 99.9% of its locations and GigabitNow at 87.7%, so 89.2% of the city can choose between two fiber providers. ALLO reports fiber at 97.6% of Greeley and 89.8% of Yuma. Intrepid Fiber reports 80.3% of Pueblo, Google Fiber 87.3% of West Jordan, and Metronet 88.7% of Norfolk and 84.4%² of Tyler.

The Rio Grande Valley in Texas changed sharply too. Fiber went from 8.2% to 69.2% of Brownsville's locations, most of it Omni Fiber's (63.8%), from 8.8% to 43.7% in McAllen, and from 10.3%¹ to 58.6% in Edinburg, where Metronet reports fiber at 49.3%². Another fiber network files service across much of the valley for business customers only; those listings are not counted here.

Established companies appear on the chart too, on their own networks. Verizon reports fiber at 90.1% of Brockton, 80.2% of Lowell and 81.3% of Alexandria. Xfinity, a cable company, reports fiber at 88.3% of Rio Rancho, and Brightspeed, a telephone company, at 86.4%² of Killeen.

Rural counties that went from none to nearly all

Some of the largest county gains in the country are in rural places without cable. In Dixie County, Florida, where no provider reports cable (0.0%), fiber rose by 99.0 percentage points and now reaches 99.0% of locations; over the same period the share of locations without reliable service at 25/3 Mbps (unserved, in the BEAD program's definition) changed by −71.3 percentage points. The providers there are Fiber by Central Florida and Conexon Connect. Neighboring Gilchrist County, also without cable, rose by 98.7 percentage points².

In Marlboro County, South Carolina (+97.5 percentage points), the fiber comes from Sandhill Telephone Cooperative and from Spectrum; in Newton County, Texas, from Spectrum and Highline Internet. Spectrum, best known as a cable company, changed its fiber count by +2,493,264¹ locations since 2022. The big metropolitan counties gained less in points but far more locations: Maricopa County, Arizona, one of the largest counties in the data with 1,567,463 locations, rose by 25.5 percentage points, and Harris County, Texas, by 29.3 percentage points².

The companies whose filings grew

Counting fiber locations by provider shows who built, bought or newly reported the fiber. These are counts of locations in each company's filing, so they also move with the FCC's location list.

AT&T reports fiber at 23.5 million² locations, a change of +11,131,731¹ since June 2022. Part of that came in the latest six months, when AT&T's fiber count changed by +4,121,113 and CenturyLink's by −3,007,007³: in a February 2, 2026 release filed with the SEC, Lumen said it had completed the sale of its consumer fiber business in eleven states, including Quantum Fiber, to AT&T.

Other large increases since 2022: Frontier +3,073,393, Spectrum +2,493,264, Metronet +1,967,110, Xfinity +1,099,749, Verizon +1,175,903 and Google Fiber +1,045,696. T-Mobile reported no fiber in 2022 and now reports 823,663 locations. Ezee Fiber now reports 669,375, a change of +659,070. The number of companies reporting fiber anywhere went from 1,339¹ to 1,485².

Fiber a household cannot order

Some fiber on the FCC map is filed for business customers only, and a household cannot order it. This site leaves those listings out of every availability figure (the methodology explains the rule). The largest such network is Lightpath, which Optimum's owner files across whole cities in the Northeast, Florida and Arizona. Counting only residential offers, Optimum's fiber count changed by +951,800¹ since 2022. In Cambridge, where the business-only filing covers the city, fiber for households is reported at 0.5%² of locations.

The rule also works the other way. From the June 2026 release, Metronet files its whole network as business service. T-Mobile's annual report to the SEC says Metronet became a wholesale provider and its residential customers moved to T-Mobile, which does not file those homes. Those listings are counted as residential here; leaving them out would make fiber disappear on paper from cities such as Norfolk, where it is reported at 89.6%² of locations.

A few counties lost fiber share. The largest falls in the four years were in Trumbull County, Ohio (−29.2 percentage points), and Mahoning County, Ohio (−24.6 percentage points²). The FCC map records what was filed, not why it changed.

What the new fiber changed for the country

Fiber growth shows up in every speed measure that depends on it, and in the decline of copper.

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

Fiber available62.6% +25.4 pts

Wired 100/100 Mbps73.7% +36.6 pts

2 Gbps or more61.0% +47.7 pts

Two or more fiber networks12.1% +9.1 pts

DSL available36.2% −18.6 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)
Fiber available	37.2%	59.9%	62.6%	25.4 pts
Wired 100/100 Mbps	37.1%	71.3%	73.7%	36.6 pts
2 Gbps or more	13.3%	57.2%	61.0%	47.7 pts
Two or more fiber networks	3.1%	10.7%	12.1%	9.1 pts
DSL available	54.8%	37.4%	36.2%	−18.6 pts

Wired service of at least 100 Mbps in both directions, which fiber and some upgraded cable networks file, went from 37.1% to 73.7% of locations. The share whose fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more went from 13.3% to 61.0%. Locations with two or more fiber providers went from 3.1% to 12.1%. DSL, the copper telephone service, fell from 54.8%¹ to 36.2%². All speeds here are providers' advertised maximums, not measurements.

The latest six months, and what is planned

Between December 31, 2025 and June 30, 2026 the national fiber share rose by 2.7 percentage points, from 59.9%³ to 62.6%². The next large source of rural fiber is the federal BEAD program: the state final proposals assign 2,368,238 of their 3,772,113⁴ locations to fiber. They will show up in the FCC data as providers build them and report service. Each state page shows its own plan, and the fiber hub maps where fiber reaches now.