Internet in Lincoln, Nebraska
Fiber is available at 99.9% of the 92,882 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Lincoln, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 100.0%. 98.3% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 1.7% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
Lincoln in Nebraska
Lincoln is one of the few large American cities where almost every home and business has both a fiber line and a cable line. ALLO reports fiber at 99.9% of the city's locations and Spectrum reports service at 96.4%, so only 1,5601 locations have a single wired option at 100/20 Mbps. What changed since 2022 is everything around those two networks: copper telephone lines and small wireless providers receded, and the mobile carriers moved in.
ALLO and Spectrum, side by side
Two companies report wired internet at nearly every one of Lincoln's 92,882 homes and businesses, as of June 30, 2026. ALLO Fiber reports fiber at 99.9% of them, with advertised downloads up to 2.3 Gbps. Spectrum reports service at 96.4%, nearly all over cable, with fiber at 0.9% and downloads up to 1 Gbps. Kinetic is the third wired provider by reach, at 72.6%1 of locations, over a mix of DSL and fiber.
| ALLO Fiber | Fiber | 99.9% | 99.9% | 2.3 Gbps | 1.6% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spectrum | Fiber Cable | 96.4% | 96.4% | 1 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 93.8% | 61.2% | 300 Mbps | – |
| T-Mobile | Licensed wireless | 90.1% | 57.2% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Kinetic | Fiber DSL Fixed wireless | 72.6% | 51.3% | 2 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Nextlink Internet | Licensed wireless Fixed wireless | 65.2% | 65.1% | 936 Mbps | – |
| AT&T | Licensed wireless | 51.9% | 3.9% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Rise Broadband | Licensed wireless Fixed wireless | 21.8% | 3.8% | 150 Mbps | – |
| Big Red Communications | Fixed wireless | 5.6% | 5.6% | 200 Mbps | – |
| Diode Cable Company | Fixed wireless | 0.1% | 0.0% | – | – |
| ICS Advanced Technologies | Fiber | 0.0% | 0.0% | 250 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.
These shares come from the providers' own filings with the FCC (file revision of November 10, 2026) for the locations inside Lincoln's city limits as drawn for the 2020 Census. "Available" means the provider says it could install service within ten business days; anyone can challenge a filing on the FCC map. HughesNet, Starlink and Viasat report satellite service at every location in the city and are left out of the coverage figures below.
Almost nobody has only one wire
Wired service of at least 100/20 Mbps is reported at 100.0% of Lincoln's locations, and two or more wired providers offer that speed at 98.3%, tied for 5th highest among the 343 US cities of 100,000 or more. The exceptions can be counted one by one: 1,560 locations have exactly one wired provider at 100/20 Mbps and 34 have none. On average a location in Lincoln has 2.481 wired providers offering 100/20 Mbps.
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 | Two or more wired choices |
|---|---|
| Lincoln, Nebraska | 98.3% |
| Omaha, Nebraska | 86.0% |
| United States | 55.6% |
That is far from typical for Nebraska. Statewide, 63.7% of locations have two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps and 25.4%1 have exactly one.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln | 0.0% | 1.7% | 48.9% | 49.4% |
| Omaha | 1.5% | 12.6% | 53.0% | 33.0% |
| Nebraska | 10.9% | 25.4% | 42.2% | 21.5% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
A third wire is the dividing line inside the city. Kinetic offers 100/20 Mbps at 51.3% of locations, more than its fiber footprint alone, and smaller providers add a third or fourth option in parts of the city. Three or more wired choices at 100/20 Mbps reach 49.4%1, up from 41.8%2 in June 2022.
Lincoln beside Omaha and similar cities
Omaha has more fiber companies than Lincoln but a smaller share of locations with fiber and more places where one wire is the only choice at 100/20 Mbps. The table puts both cities beside the state and the country.
| Area | Fiber available | Two or more wired choices | One wired choice | DSL available | Wired providers reporting service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln, Nebraska | 99.9% | 98.3% | 1.7% | 50.7% | 5 |
| Omaha, Nebraska | 88.2% | 86.0% | 12.6% | 33.6% | 11 |
| Nebraska | 80.3% | 63.7% | 25.4% | 47.8% | 57 |
| United States | 62.6% | 55.6% | 36.6% | 36.2% | 1,541 |
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.
Lincoln's fiber share is tied for 3rd highest1 among the 343 large cities in the FCC data. The table below shows the cities closest to it in size.
| Area | Fiber available | Gigabit (1,000/100) | Two or more wired choices | Fiber networks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln, Nebraska | 99.9% | 99.9% | 98.3% | 4 |
| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 94.7% | 99.6% | 94.5% | 4 |
| St. Paul, Minnesota | 91.6% | 94.8% | 91.7% | 2 |
| Jersey City, New Jersey | 91.1% | 96.3% | 90.7% | 5 |
| Plano, Texas | 90.7% | 97.0% | 89.1% | 5 |
| Durham, North Carolina | 89.5% | 89.5% | 87.1% | 6 |
| Greensboro, North Carolina | 81.8% | 81.8% | 80.5% | 4 |
| North Las Vegas, Nevada | 44.1% | 97.0% | 25.7% | 3 |
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.
The copper network shrank by half
The fiber share in Lincoln has not moved since the first National Broadband Map: it was 99.9% as of June 30, 2022, and is 99.9% now. The change happened in the older technologies. DSL over telephone lines was reported at 95.9% of locations in 2022 and at 50.7% in 2026, a fall of 45.2 percentage points. Unlicensed fixed wireless, which runs on shared radio spectrum, fell from 90.6%2 to 13.9%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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DSL available | 95.9% | 52.0% | 50.7% | −45.2 pts |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless | 90.6% | 22.5% | 13.9% | −76.6 pts |
| Fixed wireless 100/20 | 33.8% | 88.0% | 92.7% | 58.9 pts |
| Three or more wired choices | 41.8% | 49.2% | 49.4% | 7.5 pts |
The number of wired providers filing in the city went from 9 to 5 over the same period. Fiber was already near its ceiling in 2022; what thinned out were the alternatives to fiber and cable. Locations with two or more separate fiber networks rose only slightly, from 19.9%2 to 22.9%. Kinetic reports fiber at 22.2%1 of locations.
Wireless home internet: the carriers arrived
Licensed fixed wireless was already reported almost everywhere in Lincoln in 2022, but mostly at lower speeds: licensed fixed wireless of 100/20 Mbps or more covered 33.8%2 of locations then and 92.7% as of June 30, 2026. Verizon's filings changed most. It reported fixed wireless at only a small part of the city in June 2022 and now reports 87,148, or 93.8%, with downloads advertised up to 300 Mbps. AT&T, which filed nothing in Lincoln in 2022, now reports fixed wireless at 51.9%, though at 100/20 Mbps at only 3.9%1.
Nextlink Internet is the regional provider in this group: it reports licensed fixed wireless at 65.2% of locations, almost all at 100/20 Mbps or faster, with a top advertised download of 936 Mbps. T-Mobile reports 90.1%1. A wireless network's capacity is shared by everyone on a tower sector, so a reported location is not a promise that a carrier will take a new customer there.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Share of broadband serviceable locations where at least one provider reports the technology, at any speed; a location can have several. Satellite is reported almost everywhere and is left out.
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| Technology | Lincoln | Nebraska |
|---|---|---|
| Fiber | 99.9% | 80.3% |
| Cable | 95.9% | 64.4% |
| DSL (copper) | 50.7% | 47.8% |
| Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home) | 99.0% | 88.8% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless | 13.9% | 38.6% |
Multi-gigabit is now the top tier almost everywhere
In June 2022 the fastest advertised download at 99.9%2 of Lincoln's locations was in the gigabit range, from 940 Mbps up to just under 2 Gbps. By June 2026, the fastest advertised download at 99.9% of locations was 2 Gbps or more, led by ALLO's 2.3 Gbps tier. Gigabit service with uploads of at least 100 Mbps, the FCC's 1,000/100 tier, is reported at 99.9%, and symmetrical wired 100/100 Mbps service at 99.9%1. Both shares are the same as Lincoln's fiber share. These are maximum advertised speeds filed by providers, not measurements of what a connection delivers.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 99.9% |
| Nebraska | 2.2% | 1.8% | 3.9% | 1.5% | 4.5% | 16.9% | 69.1% |
| United States | 2.4% | 1.6% | 1.8% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 31.0% | 61.0% |
Subscriptions: most households pay for a wire
In the Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey, 84.6% of Lincoln households subscribed to cable, fiber or DSL (margin of error ±2.0 percentage points), tied for 45th highest among large cities by point estimate. Only 8.1% relied on a cellular data plan alone (margin of error ±1.6 percentage points), and 4.4% had no internet subscription (margin of error ±1.0 percentage points4). In the 2019 survey the share without a subscription was 9.7% (margin of error ±1.5 percentage points5), so the drop is larger than the survey's uncertainty. The survey counts households across a year; the FCC counts locations on one date.
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) | 100.0% | |
| Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census) | 84.6% | ±2.0 |
| Households relying only on a cellular data plan | 8.1% | ±1.6 |
| Households with no internet subscription | 4.4% | ±1.0 |
Lincoln is in Lancaster County, where fiber reaches 93.4%1 of locations; the Nebraska page has every county.
Questions and answers
What internet providers are available in Lincoln, Nebraska?
Two wired networks cover nearly the whole city: ALLO Fiber (99.9% of locations, fiber) and Spectrum (96.4%, almost all cable). Kinetic reports DSL, fiber or fixed wireless at 72.6%. Verizon (93.8%), T-Mobile (90.1%), Nextlink Internet (65.2%) and AT&T (51.9%1) report fixed wireless.
Is fiber internet available in Lincoln?
At 99.9% of locations at least one provider reports fiber, as of June 30, 2026, against 80.3% for Nebraska and 62.6% for the US. Two or more fiber networks reach 22.9%1, mostly where Kinetic's or UPN's fiber overlaps ALLO's.
How many internet providers are there in Lincoln?
5 wired providers report service somewhere in the city, down from 92 in June 2022, and 12 report some form of terrestrial service, counting fixed wireless. At a typical location, 48.9% have exactly two wired providers offering 100/20 Mbps and 49.4%1 have three or more.
Is 5G home internet available in Lincoln?
Verizon reports fixed wireless home internet at 93.8% of Lincoln's locations, with 100/20 Mbps at 61.2%; T-Mobile reports 90.1%, with 100/20 Mbps at 57.2%1. Carriers accept sign-ups address by address, so check the carrier and the FCC map for one home.
Checking one address in Lincoln
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 Nebraska
The state picture, county by county: internet in Nebraska. Other large cities in the state: Omaha. Large cities in neighboring states: Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, Colorado Springs, Colorado and Aurora, Colorado. Compare Lincoln 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.