Internet Service in Portland, Oregon
Fiber is available at 79.5% of the 187,718 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Portland, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 99.7%. 80.1% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 19.6% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
Portland in Oregon
Most Portland addresses have two wires and only two: Xfinity's cable and a fiber network that AT&T now reports. Exactly two wired providers offer 100/20 Mbps at 79.7%1 of the city's homes and businesses, while the unlicensed radio networks that the FCC map once showed across most of the city have almost all left the filings.
Xfinity, AT&T and the wireless carriers
As of June 30, 2026 (FCC file revision of November 10, 2026), the FCC counts 187,718 homes and businesses inside Portland's city limits. Xfinity reports service at 99.5% of them, over cable except at a few buildings with fiber. AT&T reports service at 88.8%, with fiber at 78.8% and advertised downloads of up to 8 Gbps1. T-Mobile and Verizon report fixed wireless home internet across most of the city.
| Xfinity | Fiber Cable | 99.5% | 99.5% | 2 Gbps | 19.5% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT&T | Fiber Licensed wireless | 88.8% | 80.6% | 8 Gbps | 0.1% |
| T-Mobile | Licensed wireless | 85.5% | 43.0% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 82.5% | 33.4% | 1 Gbps | – |
| CenturyLink | DSL | 8.4% | 0.8% | 140 Mbps | – |
| FIBERFI | Fixed wireless | 1.3% | 1.3% | 2.5 Gbps | – |
| Astound | Fiber Cable DSL | 0.6% | 0.6% | 1.5 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Ziply Fiber | Fiber | 0.4% | 0.4% | 6 Gbps | – |
| Helio Broadband | DSL | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Hunter Communications Inc | Fiber Licensed wireless | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.5 Gbps | – |
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.
Each share is the part of the city's locations where a company told the FCC it can install service within ten business days. Those claims can be challenged on the FCC map, the only public source for one address. The FCC collects no prices. Satellite companies report service at every location in Portland and are left out of the figures below.
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 | Portland | Oregon |
|---|---|---|
| Fiber | 79.5% | 55.2% |
| Cable | 99.5% | 82.5% |
| DSL (copper) | 8.4% | 43.1% |
| Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home) | 94.9% | 86.4% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless | 1.3% | 16.6% |
A fiber network under a new name
Portland's fiber is not new. In the first National Broadband Map, as of June 30, 2022, fiber already reached 77.7%2 of the city's locations, almost all of it filed by CenturyLink, and AT&T reported no service in Portland at all. In the December 31, 2025 files AT&T reported fixed wireless only. Lumen, CenturyLink's parent, then completed the sale of its consumer fiber business in eleven states to AT&T on February 2, 2026, keeping its copper-based consumer services, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In the June 2026 files, the fiber appears under AT&T and CenturyLink is left with DSL at 8.4% of locations, offering 100/20 Mbps at 0.8%. Copper from any provider now reaches 8.4% of locations, against 19.8%2 in 2022. Fiber coverage itself barely moved over the four years: up 1.8 percentage points, a gain tied for 37th lowest among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more. In the latest six months it fell from 81.1%3 to 79.5%1. The filings show the change, not its cause.
Two wires, almost never three
The two networks overlap across most of the city. At 79.7% of locations a home or business has exactly two wired providers offering 100/20 Mbps, the 52nd highest share among large cities; across Oregon the figure is 43.5%. Where the fiber does not reach, Xfinity is usually the only wired provider at that speed: it is the sole one at 19.5% of the city's locations. A third wired option is reported at 0.3%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland | 0.4% | 19.6% | 79.7% | 0.3% |
| Oregon | 9.0% | 42.3% | 43.5% | 5.2% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
The smaller wired companies in the table do not change that picture. 5 companies report fiber somewhere in Portland, including Ziply Fiber, Astound and Zayo, but each reaches from a few hundred to about a thousand locations. Two separate fiber networks overlap at 0.3%1 of locations.
Radio networks that left the map
The largest change in Portland's FCC data since 2022 is in unlicensed fixed wireless: service sent by radio on unlicensed frequencies, often from antennas on rooftops. In June 2022 it was reported at 65.4%2 of the city's locations, almost all of it by one company, StarTouch. In the December 31, 2025 files StarTouch no longer appeared in Portland, and most of the unlicensed wireless was reported by Elevate, for a citywide share of 28.0%3. As of June 30, 2026 the share is 1.3%, nearly all of it FIBERFI, a wireless company new since 2022 that advertises up to 2.5 Gbps at 1.3%1 of locations. These are the companies' own filings; a company that stops filing for an area drops out of the map.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlicensed fixed wireless | 65.4% | 28.0% | 1.3% | −64.1 pts |
| Fixed wireless 100/20 | 43.6% | 59.4% | 59.0% | 15.3 pts |
| DSL available | 19.8% | 10.0% | 8.4% | −11.4 pts |
| Fiber available | 77.7% | 81.1% | 79.5% | 1.8 pts |
The cellular carriers moved the other way. Verizon reported fixed wireless at 82.5% of Portland's locations in June 2026, more than double its 2022 share, and its advertised maximum is 1 Gbps. T-Mobile reports 85.5%, with a maximum of 100 Mbps. Licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps or faster, the FCC's benchmark for broadband, reached 59.0% of locations, up from 43.6%2 in 2022. Verizon offers 100/20 Mbps at 33.4% of locations and T-Mobile at 43.0%1. Carriers decide address by address whether a sector has room for a new customer, so a reported location is not a guaranteed sign-up. More on the fixed wireless page.
Advertised top speeds since 2022
In June 2022 the fastest advertised download at 99.5% of Portland's locations was between 940 Mbps and just under 2 Gbps, and gigabit service with uploads of 100 Mbps or more (the FCC's 1,000/100 tier) was advertised at only 0.4%. As of June 30, 2026, a download of 2 Gbps or more is advertised at 85.3% and the 1,000/100 tier at 85.8%, a gain of 85.4 percentage points. Symmetrical wired service of at least 100/100 Mbps went from 77.7%2 to 94.5%1, more than fiber's own reach, so part of it is cable. These are maximum speeds providers advertise, not measured performance.
Gaps are small but not zero. 438 locations have no ground-based service at 100/20 Mbps, 224 reach that speed only by fixed wireless, and 361 have only satellite.
Subscriptions in Portland households
The Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey counts households rather than locations and is a sample with a margin of error. It found 81.8% of Portland households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (margin of error ±1.5 percentage points) and 10.8% relying only on a cellular data plan (±1.0 percentage points), close to the 10.6% of 2019. The share with no internet subscription fell from 8.4%5 in 2019 to 5.1% (±0.8 percentage points), a drop larger than the margins of error. Satellite subscriptions, at 2.7%4, are among the lowest of any large city.
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) | 99.7% | |
| Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census) | 81.8% | ±1.5 |
| Households relying only on a cellular data plan | 10.8% | ±1.0 |
| Households with no internet subscription | 5.1% | ±0.8 |
Beside Hillsboro, Gresham and Salem
Portland's neighbors show how much one city line can change. In Hillsboro, to the west, Ziply Fiber reports fiber at 88.7% of locations and the City of Hillsboro, which files with the FCC as a provider, at 29.8%; two fiber networks overlap at 28.7% of locations there. Gresham, on Portland's eastern edge, has the same pattern as Portland: one fiber network (80.7% of locations) and two networks together at 0.2%1.
| Area | Fiber available | Two or more fiber networks | Two or more wired choices | One wired choice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland, Oregon | 79.5% | 0.3% | 80.1% | 19.6% |
| Gresham, Oregon | 80.7% | 0.2% | 80.5% | 19.3% |
| Hillsboro, Oregon | 91.0% | 28.7% | 90.5% | 9.2% |
| Salem, Oregon | 26.9% | 8.9% | 34.4% | 64.9% |
| Eugene, Oregon | 49.0% | 18.0% | 52.4% | 47.4% |
| Bend, Oregon | 35.2% | 6.8% | 28.0% | 72.0% |
| Oregon | 55.2% | 6.1% | 48.7% | 42.3% |
| United States | 62.6% | 12.1% | 55.6% | 36.6% |
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.
Statewide, fiber reaches 55.2% of locations and two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps reach 48.7%, so Portland is well ahead of Oregon on both, as are Hillsboro and Gresham. Salem and Bend have far less fiber. Eugene has less fiber than Portland, but two fiber networks overlap there at 18.0%1 of locations.
Portland's limits as of the 2020 Census are used throughout; neighboring cities such as Beaverton and Lake Oswego are not included. The Oregon page maps every county and lists the state's other cities.
Portland internet questions
What internet providers are available in Portland, Oregon?
As of June 30, 2026, Xfinity reports service at 99.5% of Portland's locations, nearly all of it cable. AT&T reports 88.8%: fiber at 78.8% and fixed wireless at others. T-Mobile (85.5%) and Verizon (82.5%) report fixed wireless home internet, and CenturyLink reports DSL at 8.4%1. The table on this page lists the rest.
Is fiber internet available in Portland?
Fiber is reported at 79.5% of Portland's homes and businesses, against 55.2% across Oregon and 62.6% nationally, as of June 30, 2026. Almost all of it is one network, reported by AT&T. Two different fiber providers overlap at only 0.3%1 of locations.
How many internet providers are there in Portland?
7 wired providers report service somewhere in the city and 10 count fixed wireless as well. At a given address the number of wired providers at 100/20 Mbps is usually two (79.7% of locations) and sometimes one (19.6%); three or more is reported at 0.3%1.
Is Ziply Fiber available in Portland?
Only at a small number of buildings. Ziply Fiber reports fiber at 0.4% of Portland's locations as of June 30, 2026. Its wider network lies outside the city: in Hillsboro it reports fiber at 88.7%1 of locations.
Why does AT&T appear instead of CenturyLink?
Lumen, CenturyLink's parent company, sold its consumer fiber business in eleven states to AT&T on February 2, 2026, and kept its copper lines. In the June 30, 2026 FCC files, Portland's fiber is filed by AT&T, and CenturyLink reports only DSL.
Checking one address in Portland
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 Oregon
The state picture, county by county: internet in Oregon. Other large cities in the state: Salem, Eugene, Gresham, Hillsboro and Bend. Compare Portland 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.