WOW! coverage: a cable network in the suburbs of the South and Michigan

6 states, led by Michigan

In the National Broadband Map as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026), WOW! lists 1,758,616 broadband serviceable locations: houses, apartment buildings and small businesses where it says it could start service within ten business days. All of them are in Michigan, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee¹. Outside those states, the answer to "is WOW! available" is no.

Michigan is the largest part by far, with 712,558 locations, 17.8% of the state. Alabama comes next by share (11.6%), then Florida (5.7%), South Carolina (5.3%), Georgia (4.6%) and Tennessee (1.9%). Counted by locations rather than share, Florida (438,522) ranks second and Alabama (254,932¹) third.

The FCC lists one filer for this brand, WideOpenWest Finance, LLC, reporting under the brand name "WOW Internet, Cable & Phone". Among the 244 brands that report cable service anywhere, WOW! has the eighth-largest cable footprint (1.6 million locations), between Sparklight (2.1 million) and Breezeline (1.2 million¹).

Cable at almost every location, fiber at a few

WOW! reports cable at 1,586,751 locations, 1,586,750 of them at 100/20 Mbps or more, with advertised downloads up to 2 Gbps. Fiber to the premises appears at 167,191 locations, with a top advertised tier of 5 Gbps¹. A location can be counted under both.

Fiber167,191

Cable1,586,751

DSL (copper)4,674

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Broadband serviceable locations in the 50 states and DC where WOW! reports each technology, as of June 30, 2026. A location reached by two technologies counts in both.

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Technology	Locations	At 100/20 Mbps or more	Fastest advertised download (Mbps)
Fiber	167,191	167,167	5,000
Cable	1,586,751	1,586,750	2,000
DSL (copper)	4,674	0	25

A small copper network remains. WOW! reports DSL at 4,674 locations in Alabama and Georgia, none of them at 100/20 Mbps (0), with a fastest advertised download of 25 Mbps¹. Where a listing shows WOW! DSL rather than cable, the speeds on offer are of a different order.

Top tiers also differ by state. In Michigan, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina, WOW!'s fastest advertised download is 5 Gbps, on fiber; in Georgia it is 1.2 Gbps. In most of the large cities it serves, where its filing is cable only, the top tier is 1.2 Gbps¹.

Suburbs and mid-size cities, not the core cities

WOW!'s coverage is close to complete in a set of suburbs and mid-size cities and close to zero in some of their neighbors. North of Detroit it reaches 95.3% of locations in Warren and 94.3% in Sterling Heights; west of it, 94.9% in Dearborn. In Detroit itself the filing lists 126¹ locations.

Florida follows the same pattern on the Gulf coast. WOW! covers 91.4% of Clearwater and 92.0% of St. Petersburg, but lists only 129 locations in Orlando. In Alabama and Georgia, the large cities with the widest coverage are Montgomery (89.8%), Columbus, Georgia (85.6%) and Huntsville (72.6%). Coverage is partial in Augusta (54.7%), North Charleston (60.1%), Knoxville (43.8%) and Charleston (42.1%¹).

Nearly always the second wire

At 51,096 locations nationwide, WOW! is the only wired provider offering 100/20 Mbps, a small slice of its footprint. In its large cities the other wire is usually a cable company that also reports fiber in parts of the city: Xfinity at 99.4% of Warren and 95.6% of Huntsville, Spectrum at 97.2% of St. Petersburg and 94.6% of Montgomery. In Columbus, AT&T reports service at 85.7%¹ of locations, with fiber in part of the city.

The share of locations with two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps is 96.5% in Warren, 92.8% in St. Petersburg and 89.2% in Columbus. Detroit, where WOW! is almost absent, stands at 35.3%. Across all providers, fiber has spread in WOW!'s cities since 2022: in St. Petersburg it went from 27.1% of locations to 69.9%, in Montgomery from 31.8%³ to 60.7%¹. In those two cities WOW!'s own filing is cable.

Where WOW! is the only wired option, it is mostly in Michigan, where that applies to 0.9% of all the state's locations, against 0.2% in Alabama and 0.2% in Georgia. In Eaton and Ionia counties, west of Lansing, that share is far higher than in the Detroit suburbs, where it is almost never the only wired option. Among large cities the share is 0.5% in Columbus and 0.1%¹ in Warren.

Growth since 2022 is mostly fiber, mostly in Florida

Between June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2026, WOW!'s reported footprint grew by 222,609 locations. Its fiber footprint grew by 159,486³, so new fiber accounts for most of the change. Growth continued in the latest six months: since December 31, 2025, the footprint changed by +20,789 locations and fiber by +17,051⁴.

The state table shows where. Michigan, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee grew modestly; Florida and South Carolina grew the most. Florida now holds most of WOW!'s fiber, which reaches 1.5% of all Florida locations, against 0.8% in South Carolina, 0.5% in Michigan and 0.4%¹ in Alabama.

Within Florida, the fiber is concentrated away from WOW!'s cable cities. In Hernando County, north of Tampa, and Seminole County, north of Orlando, WOW!'s filing lists fiber only, with no cable at all. In Pinellas County, home to St. Petersburg and Clearwater, the filing is cable only. Across all providers, the share of Hernando County locations with fiber rose by 52.5 percentage points between June 2022 and June 2026, and the share with two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps rose by 48.2 percentage points. In Seminole County the same two shares rose by 47.7 percentage points and 43.4 percentage points. WOW! is one of 9 fiber providers in Hernando County and 8¹ in Seminole County.

Not every change in a filing is construction. The FCC revises its list of locations with each release, and a provider can add or drop areas through purchases or changes in which entity files. The FCC data record what the filer reported, not why.

Reading a WOW! listing

The figures on this page are WOW!'s own availability filings as of June 30, 2026. A listed location is one where the company says it could install service within ten business days; it is not a subscriber count. Listings that look wrong can be challenged on the FCC National Broadband Map, which is also where to check a single address. The data hold no prices or plans; those appear on the broadband facts label WOW! must show at the point of sale.