Internet in Olathe, Kansas
Fiber is available at 98.1% of the 45,319 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Olathe, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 99.9%. 97.9% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 1.9% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
Olathe in Kansas
Olathe's cable network belongs to Xfinity, not Spectrum as in Overland Park and Kansas City, Kansas, and three fiber footprints sit on top of it. Fiber reaches 98.1% of the city's homes and businesses, and 82.1%1 have two or more fiber companies, although that overlap was wider six months earlier.
Who serves Olathe
The FCC National Broadband Map, as of June 30, 2026 (revision November 10, 2026), lists 45,3191 homes and businesses inside Olathe's 2020 city limits. Four wired networks each report service at most of them:
- Xfinity, at 97.3%, over cable, with fiber at a small number of locations;
- AT&T, at 93.3%, a mix of fiber (44.2% of locations), copper DSL and fixed wireless;
- Google Fiber, at 91.0%, all fiber;
- Everfast Fiber, at 73.4%1, which lists both fiber and cable technology in its filing.
T-Mobile (88.8%) and Verizon (87.3%) report fixed wireless home internet over their mobile networks. Smaller providers cover pockets: Spectrum at 3.6%, the fixed wireless company Wisper ISP at 3.9%, and Brightspeed at 3.7%1.
| Xfinity | Fiber Cable | 97.3% | 97.3% | 2 Gbps | 1.0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT&T | Fiber DSL Licensed wireless | 93.3% | 52.6% | 5 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Google Fiber | Fiber | 91.0% | 91.0% | 8 Gbps | 0.1% |
| T-Mobile | Licensed wireless | 88.8% | 31.7% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 87.3% | 33.4% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Everfast Fiber | Fiber Cable | 73.4% | 73.4% | 2 Gbps | 0.4% |
| Wisper ISP, LLC | Licensed wireless | 3.9% | 3.9% | 400 Mbps | – |
| Brightspeed | Fiber DSL | 3.7% | 2.0% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Spectrum | Fiber Cable | 3.6% | 3.6% | 1 Gbps | 0.6% |
| Mercury Fiber | Licensed wireless | 0.8% | 0.8% | 150 Mbps | – |
| Optimum | Cable | 0.4% | 0.4% | 940 Mbps | – |
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.
A provider listing a location is telling the FCC it can install standard service there within ten business days. These are the companies' own filings, open to challenge, and they describe the city as a whole; whether one address is covered is a question for the FCC map.
The Xfinity exception
In the other large Kansas cities of the metro area, the cable company is Spectrum. It reports service at 96.6% of locations in Overland Park, where Xfinity reports 0.6%, and at 88.6% in Kansas City, Kansas. In Olathe it is the other way round: Xfinity 97.3%, Spectrum 3.6%1.
Olathe is also most of Xfinity's footprint in the state. Of the 53,276 Kansas locations where Xfinity reports service, 44,1111 are in Olathe.
Xfinity's network here is cable at almost every location; it reports fiber at 0.4%, which is where its 2 Gbps advertised maximum applies. It is the only wired provider at 100/20 Mbps for just 1.0%1 of locations, because fiber runs past nearly all the rest.
Three fiber networks, and less overlap than in December
Fiber of any kind is reported at 98.1% of Olathe's locations, the 8th highest share among the 343 US cities of 100,000 or more. Google Fiber has the largest fiber footprint, at 91.0% of locations, with advertised downloads up to 8 Gbps. Everfast Fiber, which does not appear in the June 2022 data for the city, now reports fiber at 71.5%. AT&T reports fiber at 44.2%, with a top advertised tier of 5 Gbps1.
Because those footprints overlap, 82.1% of locations have two or more different fiber companies, the 7th highest share among large US cities; nationally it is 12.1%. The share has moved in two directions. It rose from 71.7%2 in June 2022 to 90.8% in December 2025, then fell by 8.6 percentage points in the six months to June 2026. Across Kansas the same measure rose over those six months, from 28.3%3 to 33.9%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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two or more fiber networks | 71.7% | 90.8% | 82.1% | 10.4 pts |
| Three or more wired choices | 73.7% | 91.3% | 84.0% | 10.3 pts |
| Fiber available | 90.9% | 99.3% | 98.1% | 7.2 pts |
| Wired 100/100 Mbps | 90.9% | 99.4% | 99.3% | 8.4 pts |
The FCC data record the drop but not its reason: a provider can narrow what it reports from one filing to the next, and the location list itself is revised. The share of locations with three or more wired choices at 100/20 Mbps moved the same way, from 91.3%3 to 84.0%, while any-fiber coverage barely changed (−1.2 percentage points1). Fiber still reaches nearly every location; fewer locations are listed by two fiber companies at once.
Competition at a typical address
Wired service of 100/20 Mbps or more is reported at 99.9% of locations, and 97.9% have at least two wired providers at that speed, the 7th highest share among large cities. Statewide the figure is 64.0%, and nationally 55.6%1.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olathe | 0.1% | 1.9% | 14.0% | 84.0% |
| Overland Park | 0.2% | 3.1% | 6.2% | 90.5% |
| Kansas City | 1.2% | 7.1% | 45.7% | 46.0% |
| Kansas | 10.8% | 25.2% | 33.0% | 31.0% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
The exceptions are small. 877 locations, or 1.9%, have exactly one wired provider at 100/20 Mbps, down from 8.2%2 in June 2022. 63 have none; at 26 of those, fixed wireless is the only service of that speed, and 2 locations rely on satellite alone. Under the federal BEAD program's definition, 131 locations in the city are unserved, with no wired or licensed fixed wireless service of at least 25/3 Mbps.
Advertised speeds and uploads
With fiber under almost every address, the fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more at 99.2% of locations; in June 2022 it was 87.8%. Symmetrical wired service of 100/100 Mbps is reported at 99.3%, up from 90.9%2, and the FCC's gigabit tier of 1,000/100 Mbps at 99.3%, against 84.9%1 across Kansas. Every figure here is a maximum the provider advertises; none comes from a speed test.
Fixed wireless and copper
Verizon added more locations in Olathe than any other provider between June 2022 and June 2026, and now reports fixed wireless home internet at 39,571 of them. T-Mobile reports 40,252. Their 100/20 Mbps shares are much smaller: 33.4% for Verizon and 31.7% for T-Mobile, whose advertised maximum here is 100 Mbps1. Tower capacity is shared, so sign-ups are decided address by address.
AT&T's copper lines are shrinking on the map: DSL is listed at 53.5% of locations, against 61.0%2 in June 2022. Taking fiber, DSL and fixed wireless together, AT&T offers 100/20 Mbps at 52.6%1 of locations.
What Olathe households subscribe to
The Census Bureau's American Community Survey measures subscriptions, not availability, and counts households over a year rather than locations on one date. In the 2025 survey, 88.3% of Olathe households subscribed to cable, fiber or DSL (margin of error ±1.5 percentage points), the 13th highest point estimate among large cities and well above the Kansas figure of 74.9%. 7.4% relied only on a cellular data plan (±2.0 percentage points), against 12.8%4 statewide.
| Measure | Olathe | Kansas | United States | Rank among largest cities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL | 88.3% ±1.5 | 74.9% | – | 13th of 340 |
| Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL | 83.3% ±1.6 | 67.9% | – | tied 49th of 343 |
| Households relying only on a cellular data plan | 7.4% ±2.0 | 12.8% | – | 324th of 340 |
| Households without an internet subscription | 2.6% ±1.5 | 6.4% | – | tied 301st of 340 |
| Households without an internet subscription | 6.6% ±2.0 | 14.6% | – | 281st of 343 |
Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables; Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 1-year detailed tables. Rank 1 is the highest value. Period: 2025.
The share with no internet subscription was 2.6% in 2025 (margin of error ±1.5 percentage points4), against 6.6% in 2019 (±2.0 percentage points5). The intervals are wide enough that the size of that decline is uncertain.
Olathe lies in Johnson County, as does Overland Park; the Kansas page compares every county, and Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri have their own pages.
Olathe internet questions
What internet providers are available in Olathe, Kansas?
Four wired providers report service across most of the city as of June 30, 2026: Xfinity (97.3% of locations, cable), AT&T (93.3%, fiber at 44.2% and DSL or fixed wireless elsewhere), Google Fiber (91.0%) and Everfast Fiber (73.4%1). T-Mobile and Verizon report fixed wireless home internet. Satellite is reported at every location; for one street address, the FCC map lists each filing.
Is fiber internet available in Olathe?
At least one company reports fiber at 98.1% of Olathe's locations, against 81.3% across Kansas and 62.6% nationally. Google Fiber reports fiber at 91.0%, Everfast Fiber at 71.5% and AT&T at 44.2%1.
Does Olathe have Spectrum or Xfinity?
Mostly Xfinity. Xfinity reports cable service at 97.3% of Olathe's locations; Spectrum reports 3.6%, in a few parts of the city. In neighboring Overland Park the pattern is reversed: Spectrum 96.6%, Xfinity 0.6%1.
How many internet providers does Olathe have?
7 wired providers report service somewhere in Olathe, 6 of them with fiber, and 11 once fixed wireless is counted. A typical location has 3.171 wired providers offering 100/20 Mbps.
Checking one address in Olathe
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 Kansas
The state picture, county by county: internet in Kansas. Other large cities in the state: Wichita, Overland Park, Kansas City and Topeka. Compare Olathe 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.