Internet in St. Louis, Missouri

Spectrum's cable, AT&T's mixed network

Two companies cover the city with wired service. Spectrum reports service at 96.1% of St. Louis's 102,609 homes and businesses and offers 100/20 Mbps or more at 96.1%. AT&T reports service at 94.4%, but over three technologies: fiber at 64.5% of locations, with DSL over copper telephone lines and fixed wireless in much of the rest; its 100/20 Mbps offer covers 71.4%¹.

One line in the table needs a caution. Brown Dog Networks reports unlicensed fixed wireless at 100.0% of locations, the widest footprint of any non-satellite provider, but with a maximum advertised download of 50 Mbps¹, so it offers 100/20 Mbps nowhere. HughesNet, Starlink and Viasat report satellite service at every location, as they do across the country.

Every figure on this page comes from provider filings to the FCC National Broadband Map with an as-of date of June 30, 2026, in the file revision published November 10, 2026. The area is the city as its limits stood in the 2020 Census. A provider lists a location when it says it can connect standard service there within ten business days; residents can dispute a listing through the FCC map.

Fiber means AT&T

Fiber reaches 65.1% of locations in St. Louis, up from 53.9%² in June 2022, a rise of 11.2 percentage points. That is below Missouri's 69.1% and close to the national 62.6%. Almost all of it is one network: AT&T reports fiber at 64.5% of locations. Spectrum, the city's cable company, reports fiber at 0.8%¹.

So 2 companies report fiber in the city, yet a second fiber network is reported at only 0.2% of locations. Among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more, that share ranks tied for 52nd lowest. Statewide the share is 18.3%; in Kansas City two fiber networks reach 68.9% of locations. AT&T's fiber also sets the city's top speed tier: at 58.1% of locations some provider advertises downloads of 2 Gbps or more, and AT&T's maximum is 5 Gbps¹.

Two wired choices, almost never three

The wired market follows AT&T's fiber map. At 69.1% of locations exactly two wired providers offer 100/20 Mbps, almost always Spectrum and AT&T. At 28.0% Spectrum is the only one, which is about the Missouri average of 30.4%. Three or more wired choices are reported at 0.0%. On average a location has 1.66¹ wired providers at 100/20 Mbps.

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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. Louis	2.9%	28.0%	69.1%	0.0%
Missouri	14.5%	30.4%	38.4%	16.7%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

The single-wire share was 34.5%² in June 2022 and has fallen by 6.6 percentage points since, while AT&T's fiber spread. Only 3,008¹ locations have no wired provider at 100/20 Mbps.

Uploads: the change since 2022

The largest shift in St. Louis's FCC figures is not new fiber but faster uploads. Wired service of 100/100 Mbps or more was reported at 53.9%² of locations in June 2022, roughly the fiber footprint at the time. By June 2026 it was 96.9%, a gain of 43.0 percentage points. Fiber reaches only 65.1%¹, so most of that gain is reported over cable, and the only cable network in the city is Spectrum's.

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

Wired 100/100 Mbps96.9% +43.0 pts

Fiber available65.1% +11.2 pts

DSL available41.2% −6.5 pts

One wired choice28.0% −6.6 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)
Wired 100/100 Mbps	53.9%	96.9%	96.9%	43.0 pts
Fiber available	53.9%	63.9%	65.1%	11.2 pts
DSL available	47.7%	41.5%	41.2%	−6.5 pts
One wired choice	34.5%	29.1%	28.0%	−6.6 pts

The FCC's gigabit tier, 1 Gbps down with at least 100 Mbps up, moved the same way and now reaches 96.9% of locations. That ranks tied for 81st highest among large cities, close to Kansas City (97.4%), and tied for 12th highest among Missouri's 115⁴ counties and county-equivalents. Over the same four years DSL fell by 6.5 percentage points, to 41.2%¹ of locations. All of these are maximum speeds the providers advertise, not measurements.

The wireless options

Fixed wireless is reported at nearly every address; whether it reaches 100/20 Mbps depends on the carrier and the location. Verizon reports home internet at 84.8% of locations and offers 100/20 Mbps at 36.7%; T-Mobile reports 77.7%, with 100/20 at 30.6%. Wisper reports service at 45.6% of locations with a top advertised download of 800 Mbps. Licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps or more, the category that includes 5G home internet, is reported at 69.1%¹ of locations, up from 44.4%² in June 2022.

Add these carriers to Spectrum and AT&T and 58.8%¹ of locations reach three or more providers at 100/20 Mbps by any terrestrial technology; in 2022 it was 28.1%². Wireless capacity is shared on each tower, so carriers can turn away sign-ups at an address even where the map shows service.

Access is near-universal; subscription is not

Wired 100/20 Mbps service is reported at 97.1%¹ of locations, yet in the Census Bureau's 2025 survey 8.9% of St. Louis households had no internet subscription (margin of error ±1.6 percentage points), tied for 20th highest among large cities. A narrower measure stands out more: 7.3% of households had no internet access at all, neither paid nor free (margin of error ±1.5 percentage points), 5th highest among large cities, against 5.0% statewide. 5.9% had no computer, smartphone or tablet of any kind, tied for 4th highest⁵ among large cities.

Wired 100/20 Mbps available (FCC, share of locations)97.1%

Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census)73.2% ±3.1

Households relying only on a cellular data plan14.3% ±2.5

Households with no internet subscription8.9% ±1.6

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)	97.1%
Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census)	73.2%	±3.1
Households relying only on a cellular data plan	14.3%	±2.5
Households with no internet subscription	8.9%	±1.6

Subscription has risen. In the 2019 survey, 17.8% of households had no subscription (margin of error ±1.8 percentage points⁶), a gap well beyond the uncertainty in either year. Another 14.3%⁵ relied only on a cellular data plan in 2025. These are household survey estimates over a year; the FCC figures count locations on a single date, so the two do not convert into each other.

The city, the county and Missouri's other large cities

The city of St. Louis is not part of St. Louis County. The Census Bureau treats it as an independent city, counted as a county-equivalent, so the figures on this page are also the figures for that county-equivalent. St. Louis County, which borders the city, has more fiber (80.6%) and fewer single-wire locations (17.2%), with fiber up by 29.6 percentage points¹ since June 2022.

Both St. Louis County and St. Louis city appear among the state's counties on the Missouri page.