Internet in Omaha, Nebraska

Cox's cable and a patchwork of fiber

Cox is the one provider with a wire to nearly every part of Omaha: it reports service at 95.5% of the city's 147,645 homes and businesses, almost all of it over cable, with advertised downloads up to 2 Gbps. The fiber providers follow, each across a part of the city: AT&T at 63.7% of locations, FiberFirst at 23.2%, Metronet at 19.0%, Google Fiber at 13.9% and Great Plains Communications at 2.1%¹.

These are the providers' own filings with the FCC as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026), for the locations inside Omaha's city limits as drawn for the 2020 Census. A provider counts as available where it says it could install service within ten business days; the filings can be challenged on the FCC map.

Many fiber companies, rarely on the same street

The count of fiber providers and the experience at one address are two different measures in Omaha. The 9 companies that report fiber put the city tied for 12th highest among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more. Some of them file only a handful of locations. What a household sees is closer to two other numbers: fiber from at least one provider at 88.2% of locations, and from two or more at 36.4%¹.

The comparison with other cities of the Plains shows the pattern. Kansas City and Des Moines have fewer fiber companies than Omaha but a far larger share of addresses where two of them overlap. Lincoln, Nebraska's other large city, has fewer than half as many fiber providers and fiber at almost every location.

Quantum Fiber, now filed by AT&T

The largest fiber network in Omaha is the one sold under the Quantum Fiber brand. In the FCC's Nebraska files for December 31, 2025, Omaha's Quantum Fiber locations were filed by CenturyLink; in the files for June 30, 2026, the same brand is filed by AT&T, which reports fiber at 63.7% of the city's locations and advertises downloads up to 8 Gbps¹. Lumen, CenturyLink's parent company, completed the sale of its consumer fiber-to-the-home business in eleven states to AT&T on February 2, 2026, and kept its copper-based consumer services, according to its news release filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

That split is visible in Omaha's data. CenturyLink now reports only DSL over telephone lines, at 33.6% of locations, and offers 100/20 Mbps at just 0.9%. AT&T also reports fixed wireless at part of the city, which is why its total footprint, 80.3%¹ of locations, is larger than its fiber footprint.

What changed since 2022

In the first National Broadband Map, as of June 30, 2022, fiber was reported at 60.8% of Omaha's locations, filed mostly by CenturyLink, with Great Plains Communications the second-largest fiber filer. Google Fiber, Metronet and FiberFirst reported no service in the city then. By June 30, 2026, fiber reached 88.2%, up 27.5 percentage points, and the share of locations with two or more fiber networks rose from 8.3%² to 36.4%¹. Great Plains, meanwhile, files fiber at a much smaller part of the city than it did in 2022.

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

Two or more fiber networks36.4% +28.1 pts

Fiber available88.2% +27.5 pts

Three or more wired choices33.0% +25.2 pts

Gigabit (1,000/100)93.8% +78.3 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)
Two or more fiber networks	8.3%	29.2%	36.4%	28.1 pts
Fiber available	60.8%	87.3%	88.2%	27.5 pts
Three or more wired choices	7.8%	25.4%	33.0%	25.2 pts
Gigabit (1,000/100)	15.5%	89.6%	93.8%	78.3 pts

In the six months after December 31, 2025 the two-fiber share changed by +7.1 percentage points. Cable moved the other way, from 99.9%² of locations in 2022 to 90.2%, and Cox now files fiber rather than cable at 5.3%¹ of locations. One filing detail matters for anyone comparing with the FCC map: in the June 2026 Nebraska fiber file, Metronet's Omaha locations are coded as business service, while in the December 2025 file they were coded for residential service too. Metronet became a wholesale network whose home customers are now T-Mobile's, so this page, which counts service a household can order, still includes them, as the methodology explains.

From gigabit downloads to gigabit uploads

Downloads of 1 Gbps were already advertised at 99.9% of locations in 2022, mostly over Cox's cable network. What changed is the upload side. Gigabit service with uploads of at least 100 Mbps, the FCC's 1,000/100 tier, went from 15.5% of locations in 2022 to 93.8%, and symmetrical wired service of 100/100 Mbps or more from 60.8%² to 97.1%. The fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more at 98.1%¹ of locations. All of these are maximum advertised speeds reported by providers, not measurements.

Cox alone at 100/20 Mbps

Competition at 100/20 Mbps is the norm in Omaha but not universal. Cox is the only wired provider offering that speed at 10.5% of locations, and 2,192 locations have no wired provider at 100/20 Mbps at all. In 2022 a single wired option was the situation at 38.1%² of locations; it is now 12.6%. Across Nebraska, two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps reach 63.7% of locations, against 86.0%¹ in Omaha.

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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
Omaha	1.5%	12.6%	53.0%	33.0%
Lincoln	0.0%	1.7%	48.9%	49.4%
Nebraska	10.9%	25.4%	42.2%	21.5%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

Locations with nothing but satellite are almost absent: 6¹ in the whole city. Satellite providers report service at every location, so they are left out of the coverage figures on this page.

Fixed wireless: the carriers and Nextlink

T-Mobile reports fixed wireless home internet at 86.2% of Omaha's locations and Verizon at 82.7%, with 100/20 Mbps at 34.0% and 34.6% respectively. Nextlink Internet reports service at 29.6%, and AT&T's fixed wireless covers part of the city as well. Licensed fixed wireless of 100/20 Mbps or more is reported at 66.0%¹ of locations. Wireless capacity is shared on each tower sector, and carriers decide address by address whether to take new customers, so these shares describe where service is reported, not where every home could sign up.

Who subscribes

The Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey counted 7.6% of Omaha households without any internet subscription (margin of error ±1.3 percentage points). By point estimate that ranks tied for 48th highest among large cities, although cities near it in the ranking may not differ significantly. In the 2019 survey the share was higher, at 11.2% (margin of error ±1.1 percentage points⁵). Households that subscribed to cable, fiber or DSL made up 78.0%, and 11.8%⁴ relied on a cellular data plan alone. The survey counts households over a year; the FCC counts locations on one date, so the two measures are compared side by side rather than subtracted.

Wired 100/20 Mbps available (FCC, share of locations)98.5%

Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census)78.0% ±1.8

Households relying only on a cellular data plan11.8% ±1.6

Households with no internet subscription7.6% ±1.3

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)	98.5%
Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census)	78.0%	±1.8
Households relying only on a cellular data plan	11.8%	±1.6
Households with no internet subscription	7.6%	±1.3

Across Douglas County, which includes Omaha, fiber is reported at 87.5%¹ of locations; the Nebraska page compares it with the rest of the state.