Internet Providers in Salem, Oregon

Xfinity, CenturyLink's copper and fiber in pockets

The FCC counts 52,400 homes and businesses inside Salem's 2020 city limits, as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026). Xfinity reports service at 99.2% of them. The next-widest wired network is CenturyLink's DSL over telephone copper, which reaches 71.3% but offers 100/20 Mbps at just 7.9%¹. The rest of the wired market is fiber in pockets, from AT&T, Hunter Communications and Ezee Fiber, plus fixed wireless from T-Mobile, Verizon, Alyrica and AT&T.

Each percentage counts the Salem locations where a provider has told the FCC it could connect a customer within ten business days; it is a claim, open to challenge on the FCC map, and that map is where a single address can be checked. No prices are filed. HughesNet, Starlink and Viasat claim every location in the city, so satellite is excluded from the coverage shares below.

Xfinity alone at most addresses

At 64.9% of Salem's locations exactly one wired provider offers 100/20 Mbps, a share that ranks tied for 29th highest among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more. Statewide the share is 42.3%, nationally 36.6%. Xfinity is nearly always that single provider: it is the only wired option at 100/20 Mbps at 64.8% of locations. Two or more wired choices at that speed are reported at 34.4%, the 32nd lowest¹ share among large cities.

NoneOneTwoThree or more

Salem

Oregon

United States

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
Salem	0.6%	64.9%	25.2%	9.2%
Oregon	9.0%	42.3%	43.5%	5.2%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

The single-wire share has been falling, slowly. It was 73.7% in June 2022 and 67.7%³ in December 2025. A third wired option at 100/20 Mbps, almost absent in 2022 at 0.2%² of locations, now reaches 9.2%. A small remainder of 199 locations has no ground-based service at 100/20 Mbps, and 124¹ reach that speed only by fixed wireless.

Gigabit uploads arrived over cable

The single wire is not standing still. The largest shift in Salem's filings since 2022 is in advertised speeds, and most of it shows up on Xfinity's existing network rather than on new fiber. In June 2022 gigabit service with uploads of 100 Mbps or more, the FCC's 1,000/100 tier, was advertised at 0.1% of locations. As of June 30, 2026 it is advertised at 82.2%, a rise of 82.1 percentage points, tied for 59th highest among large cities. Symmetrical wired service of at least 100/100 Mbps went from 17.1%² to 82.4%¹.

Both shares are about three times fiber's reach in the city, 26.9%. No fixed wireless provider advertises 1 Gbps in Salem, so most of the 1,000/100 coverage can only be Xfinity's cable network, which now files faster uploads than it did in 2022. The top download tier shows the same shift: in 2022 the fastest advertised download at 99.2%² of locations was between 940 Mbps and 2 Gbps; now 79.9%¹ have 2 Gbps or more on offer. These are maximum advertised speeds, not measured performance, and in Salem most of them come from the same single network.

Under 25 Mbps or none25–99100–249250–499500–939940–1,9992,000 or more

Salem

Oregon

United States

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
Salem	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	19.5%	79.9%
Oregon	3.4%	2.0%	1.7%	2.0%	0.1%	31.5%	59.3%
United States	2.4%	1.6%	1.8%	1.4%	0.9%	31.0%	61.0%

Nine fiber companies, a quarter of the city

Salem's fiber figure stands out among large cities. Fiber is reported at 26.9% of locations, the 24th lowest share of the 343, and less than half of Oregon's 55.2%. Yet the number of companies filing fiber here rose from 3² in June 2022 to 7, a count tied for 38th highest¹ among large cities. Many companies, each covering a small area: that is Salem's fiber pattern.

Three networks account for most of it. AT&T reports fiber at 18.8% of Salem's locations with an advertised maximum of 8 Gbps¹, and fixed wireless at others. It filed no service in Salem in June 2022. In between, AT&T bought the consumer fiber operations of Lumen, CenturyLink's parent, in eleven states; Lumen's February 2, 2026 announcement to the Securities and Exchange Commission says the deal closed that day and that Lumen kept its copper-based consumer business. Salem's June 2026 files match that split, with CenturyLink down to DSL alone, though the FCC data cannot show which lines moved from one company to the other.

Hunter Communications, absent from Salem's filings in 2022, reports fiber at 13.3% of locations, with an advertised maximum of 2.5 Gbps. Ezee Fiber, also new since 2022, reports fiber at 4.9%. Xfinity files fiber at 0.5%¹ of locations, and Astound, Datavision and Zayo each reach a few hundred locations or fewer.

The networks rarely overlap. Two different fiber providers are reported at 8.9% of locations, up from 0.0% in 2022. Fiber's citywide share rose 9.8 percentage points over the four years, from 17.1%², and 2.6 percentage points¹ of that came in the last six months.

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

Fiber available26.9% +9.8 pts

Two or more fiber networks8.9% +8.9 pts

Two or more wired choices34.4% +9.0 pts

Gigabit (1,000/100)82.2% +82.1 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)
Fiber available	17.1%	24.3%	26.9%	9.8 pts
Two or more fiber networks	0.0%	7.4%	8.9%	8.9 pts
Two or more wired choices	25.5%	31.7%	34.4%	9.0 pts
Gigabit (1,000/100)	0.1%	73.2%	82.2%	82.1 pts

5G home internet and a local wireless network

Licensed fixed wireless, which includes 5G home internet, is reported at 98.4% of Salem's locations. At 100/20 Mbps or faster it reaches 65.4%, up from 21.5%² in 2022. T-Mobile reports 79.9% of locations and offers 100/20 Mbps at 25.6%. Verizon's footprint has more than tripled since 2022, to 78.1%, offering 100/20 Mbps at 31.7%¹.

The local name in the table is Alyrica, which reports service at 71.5% of locations, nearly all of it licensed fixed wireless, and offers 100/20 Mbps at 27.0%. AT&T files fixed wireless at roughly half of the city's locations, and Hunter Communications at a few thousand, for 5¹ licensed fixed wireless providers in all. Fixed wireless capacity is shared by everyone on a tower sector, so a reported location is not a guaranteed sign-up.

The fixed wireless page explains the FCC codes.

What Salem households subscribe to

What people buy is a separate question, answered by a sample survey of households rather than an FCC count of locations. The Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey estimates 79.2% of Salem households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (margin of error ±3.9 percentage points) and 14.4% relying only on a cellular data plan (±3.4 percentage points). The share with no internet subscription was 4.3% (±1.8 percentage points⁴), down from 9.3% (±2.0 percentage points⁵) in 2019; even with the error ranges the two estimates do not meet, so that decline is not a sampling artifact.

Wired 100/20 Mbps available (FCC, share of locations)99.4%

Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census)79.2% ±3.9

Households relying only on a cellular data plan14.4% ±3.4

Households with no internet subscription4.3% ±1.8

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)	99.4%
Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census)	79.2%	±3.9
Households relying only on a cellular data plan	14.4%	±3.4
Households with no internet subscription	4.3%	±1.8

Salem among Oregon's large cities

Salem sits with Bend at the single-wire end of Oregon's larger cities. Bend's single-wire share is 72.0% and its fiber share 35.2%. In Eugene fiber reaches 49.0% and two or more wired choices 52.4%. In Portland, 19.6%¹ of locations have a single wired 100/20 provider.

All Salem figures follow the city boundary drawn for the 2020 Census; Keizer, the separate city on its northern edge, is not included. County-level coverage for Marion and Polk is on the Oregon page.