Internet providers in St. Paul, Minnesota
Fiber is available at 91.6% of the 72,716 homes and businesses the FCC counts in St. Paul, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 99.8%. 91.7% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 8.1% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
St. Paul in Minnesota
In 2022 fiber was reported at about half of St. Paul's homes and businesses, and Xfinity was the only fast wired option at 46.2%2 of them. As of June 30, 2026, fiber reaches 91.6%, and 91.7%1 of locations can choose between two wired networks: Xfinity's cable and fiber now filed by AT&T.
Xfinity, AT&T and a thin list after them
The FCC counts 72,716 homes and businesses in St. Paul as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026). Two companies report wired service at almost all of them. Xfinity reports 99.8%, over cable with advertised downloads up to 2 Gbps and fiber at a few hundred addresses. AT&T reports 96.1%: fiber at 91.6% of locations, advertised at up to 8 Gbps1, and fixed wireless at some of the rest.
| Xfinity | Fiber Cable | 99.8% | 99.8% | 2 Gbps | 8.1% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT&T | Fiber Licensed wireless | 96.1% | 92.5% | 8 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 88.4% | 34.2% | 1 Gbps | – |
| T-Mobile | Licensed wireless | 73.8% | 22.0% | 100 Mbps | – |
| CenturyLink | DSL | 7.9% | 0.3% | 140 Mbps | 0.0% |
| GigFire | Fixed wireless | 4.0% | 4.0% | 150 Mbps | – |
| Consolidated Communications | DSL | 0.1% | 0.0% | 100 Mbps | – |
| EarthLink Business | Fixed wireless | 0.0% | 0.0% | 10 Mbps | – |
| MN FWA Buyer | Fixed wireless | 0.0% | 0.0% | 10 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 (Starlink, Viasat, HughesNet) report service at nearly every location and are left out of the table.
Below those two, the list thins quickly. Verizon and T-Mobile file only fixed wireless. CenturyLink keeps copper DSL at 7.9% of locations. GigFire, which did not file in the city in 2022, reports unlicensed fixed wireless at 4.0%1. Consolidated Communications, Zayo and the remaining filers each report a few hundred locations or fewer.
A share in the table is the part of the city's locations where a company told the FCC it can install service within ten business days. It is a filing, not a guarantee, and anyone can challenge it on the FCC map. The map holds no prices, and satellite, reported at every location, is left out of the comparisons below.
Fiber: from half the city to nine in ten
St. Paul's fiber figure changed more than its neighbor's. In the first National Broadband Map, as of June 30, 2022, fiber was reported at 52.7% of locations, almost all of it CenturyLink's. Minneapolis then stood at 84.5%2. By December 31, 2025, CenturyLink's fiber had spread across most of St. Paul and the city's share had reached 91.7%3, a gain of 38.9 percentage points over the four years to June 2026 that ranks 60th highest1 among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more.
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 | 52.7% | 91.7% | 91.6% | 38.9 pts |
| DSL available | 58.6% | 16.5% | 7.9% | −50.7 pts |
| One wired choice | 46.2% | 8.0% | 8.1% | −38.0 pts |
| Wired 100/100 Mbps | 52.7% | 97.0% | 97.3% | 44.6 pts |
The network then changed hands on paper. Lumen, CenturyLink's parent company, reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it closed the sale of its consumer fiber-to-the-home business to AT&T on February 2, 2026. In the December 2025 files, AT&T reported only fixed wireless in St. Paul; in the June 2026 files, it reports the fiber, and CenturyLink reports DSL alone. Fiber's citywide share slipped 0.1 percentage points between the two releases, to 91.6%1.
The same transfer is described from the Minneapolis side on the Minneapolis page, where the 2022 story was a second fiber network rather than a first.
One wire became two
The fiber build changed how many choices a St. Paul address has. In 2022, 46.2%2 of locations had exactly one wired provider offering 100/20 Mbps, nearly always Xfinity. As of June 30, 2026, that share is 8.1%, a fall of 38.0 percentage points, and 91.7% of locations have two or more. Across Minnesota, 45.4% of locations still have one such provider and 46.5%1 have two or more.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Paul | 0.2% | 8.1% | 91.5% | 0.2% |
| Minnesota | 8.1% | 45.4% | 41.8% | 4.7% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
The choice stops at two. Three or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps are reported at only 0.2% of locations, and the average address has 1.92. Xfinity is the only wired provider at that speed at 8.1% of locations, roughly the parts of the city the fiber has not reached. Few addresses lack fast service altogether: 72 have no ground-based service at 100/20 Mbps and 111 have satellite only.
Copper on its way out
DSL over telephone lines was reported at 58.6%2 of St. Paul's locations in 2022. It fell to 16.5%3 by December 2025 and to 7.9% by June 2026, a drop of 50.7 percentage points since the first map. Statewide, DSL is still reported at 54.1%1 of locations. Where CenturyLink still files copper in the city, it offers 100/20 Mbps at almost none of it.
Faster downloads, a flat gigabit share
Advertised download tiers moved up a level. In 2022 the fastest advertised download at every St. Paul location sat in the gigabit range (100.0%); as of June 30, 2026, 94.3% of locations are offered 2 Gbps or more, from AT&T's fiber and Xfinity's cable. Symmetrical wired service of at least 100/100 Mbps rose from 52.7%2 to 97.3%1.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Paul | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 5.5% | 94.3% |
| Minnesota | 2.1% | 1.4% | 3.8% | 1.9% | 0.1% | 39.5% | 51.2% |
| United States | 2.4% | 1.6% | 1.8% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 31.0% | 61.0% |
The share offered gigabit service with uploads of at least 100 Mbps (the FCC's 1,000/100 tier) went the other way, from 96.0% to 94.8%. That change of −1.2 percentage points ranks 6th lowest among large cities, and it comes from a single 2022 filer: Nextera Wireless, an unlicensed fixed wireless company, reported 1,000/100 service at nearly every St. Paul location in 2022 and does not file in the city now. Unlicensed wireless overall fell from 96.2%2 to 4.0%1. Today the tier is carried by AT&T's fiber and Xfinity's cable. Every speed here is a provider's advertised maximum.
5G and fixed wireless home internet
Verizon reports fixed wireless at 88.4% of locations, advertises up to 1 Gbps and offers 100/20 Mbps at 34.2%. T-Mobile reports 73.8%, with a top advertised download of 100 Mbps and 100/20 Mbps at 22.0%. Licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps or faster from any carrier reaches 47.9%1 of locations, down from 67.6%3 six months earlier. Carriers cap sign-ups where a cell sector is busy, so these shares mark where a carrier reports the service, not where every home could sign up at once. The fixed wireless page covers the technology.
St. Paul beside Minneapolis and Minnesota
The Twin Cities now look alike on the FCC map: fiber at 91.6% in St. Paul and 92.0% in Minneapolis. Both are well above Minnesota's 62.6% and the national 62.6%. St. Paul is in Ramsey County, where fiber reaches 70.8%1 of locations; the Minnesota page has every county.
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 |
|---|---|
| Minneapolis | 92.0% |
| St. Paul | 91.6% |
| Rochester | 90.1% |
| United States | 62.6% |
| Minnesota | 62.6% |
Subscriptions in St. Paul households
The Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey counts households, not locations, and its figures are estimates. In it, 7.0% of St. Paul households had no internet subscription (margin of error ±1.3 percentage points), against 10.8% in 2019 (±1.5 percentage points5); the two ranges do not overlap. 76.3% of households subscribed to cable, fiber or DSL, and 14.6% (±2.2 percentage points4) relied only on a cellular data plan.
St. Paul internet questions
Which internet providers serve St. Paul?
Two wired networks cover almost the whole city: Xfinity, at 99.8% of locations, nearly all over cable, and AT&T, at 96.1%, with fiber at 91.6%. Verizon (88.4%) and T-Mobile (73.8%) report fixed wireless home internet, CenturyLink reports DSL at 7.9% and GigFire wireless service at 4.0%1. These are FCC filings as of June 30, 2026; a single address is checked on the FCC map.
Is fiber internet available in St. Paul?
At 91.6% of the city's homes and businesses, against 62.6% across Minnesota. Nearly all of it is one network, filed by AT&T. Two fiber providers overlap at only 0.0%1 of locations, so where an address has fiber, it almost always has one fiber company.
How many internet providers are there in St. Paul?
9 ground-based providers report service somewhere in the city, 4 of them over wires, down from 10 and 62 in 2022. Half of them file at a few hundred locations or fewer. At a typical home the count that matters is two wired providers offering 100/20 Mbps, true at 91.5%1 of locations.
Does St. Paul still have DSL?
DSL is reported at 7.9% of locations, down from 58.6%2 in 2022. CenturyLink files nearly all of it and offers 100/20 Mbps or faster at 0.3%1 of the city's locations.
Checking one address in St. Paul
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 Minnesota
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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.