Internet in Memphis, Tennessee
Fiber is available at 62.1% of the 211,704 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Memphis, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 99.6%. 64.5% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 35.1% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
Memphis in Tennessee
Memphis has gone from a cable city to a cable-and-fiber city in four years. Fiber now reaches 62.1% of its homes and businesses, against 32.1%2 in June 2022, mostly from AT&T and newcomer Ting, while Xfinity's cable reaches 99.5%. At 35.0%1 of locations Xfinity is still the only wired provider offering 100/20 Mbps.
Xfinity everywhere, AT&T fiber on just over half
Two companies wire nearly all of Memphis. Xfinity reports service at 99.5% of the city's 211,704 homes and businesses, and offers 100/20 Mbps at the same share; all of it over cable. AT&T reports 94.7%, but that figure combines three networks: fiber at 56.9% of locations, and copper DSL or fixed wireless across most of the rest. AT&T offers 100/20 Mbps at 61.7%. Ting, the third wired network of any size, reports fiber at 18.0%1.
| Xfinity | Fiber Cable | 99.5% | 99.5% | 2 Gbps | 35.0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT&T | Fiber DSL Licensed wireless | 94.7% | 61.7% | 5 Gbps | 0.1% |
| T-Mobile | Licensed wireless | 78.7% | 28.6% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 76.7% | 42.6% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Ting | Fiber | 18.0% | 18.0% | 2 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Premier Fiber | Fiber | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Gigafy | DSL | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Northcentral Connect, Inc. | Fiber | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1 Gbps | – |
| C Spire | Fiber | 0.0% | 0.0% | 8 Gbps | – |
| Xiber LLC | Fiber | 0.0% | 0.0% | 10 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, Viasat, Starlink) report service at nearly every location and are left out of the table.
The table shows provider reports as of June 30, 2026, revision of November 10, 2026, and covers the city limits as drawn for the 2020 Census. A provider reports a location as served when it can install a standard connection there within ten business days; reports can be challenged on the FCC map. The smaller fiber names, such as Premier Fiber (581 locations) and C Spire (21), each report service in a small part of the city.
Fiber went from a third of the city to three in five
In June 2022, fiber reached 32.1% of Memphis locations. By June 2026 it reached 62.1%, a rise of 30.0 percentage points, and 4.3 percentage points of that came in the last six months alone. The number of companies reporting fiber in the city went from 22 to 71.
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 | 32.1% | 57.8% | 62.1% | 30.0 pts |
| Two or more fiber networks | 0.0% | 10.7% | 13.1% | 13.1 pts |
| Two or more wired choices | 38.4% | 60.6% | 64.5% | 26.2 pts |
| One wired choice | 61.1% | 39.0% | 35.1% | −26.1 pts |
Ting accounts for the newest layer. It reported no Memphis locations in 2022 and now reports 38,164, all fiber, with a fastest advertised download of 2 Gbps. Where Ting has built, AT&T fiber is often already there: two or more separate fiber networks reach 13.1% of locations, against 0.0% in 2022. The growth has also changed choice. The share of locations with two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps rose from 38.4%2 to 64.5%1.
Even after that growth, Memphis has the lowest fiber share of Tennessee's six largest cities. The state as a whole reports fiber at 80.5% of locations; nationally the figure is 62.6%1.
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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| Area | Fiber available |
|---|---|
| Chattanooga | 100.0% |
| Clarksville | 100.0% |
| Knoxville | 99.0% |
| Murfreesboro | 87.1% |
| Nashville | 86.6% |
| Tennessee | 80.5% |
| United States | 62.6% |
| Memphis | 62.1% |
A third of the city has only Xfinity at 100/20
The fiber map leaves a large part of Memphis with one fast wire. At 35.1% of locations exactly one wired provider offers 100/20 Mbps or more, against 30.8% across Tennessee, and at almost all of them it is Xfinity: Xfinity is the only wired 100/20 option at 35.0% of the city's locations. AT&T is the only one at 0.1% and Ting at 0.0%1: Xfinity's cable also reaches almost every location they serve.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memphis | 0.4% | 35.1% | 51.2% | 13.4% |
| Nashville | 0.6% | 12.7% | 53.1% | 33.6% |
| Tennessee | 2.8% | 30.8% | 46.1% | 20.3% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
That single-wire share was 61.1%2 in June 2022 and fell 3.9 percentage points in the six months to June 2026. On average a Memphis location has 1.77 wired providers at 100/20 Mbps. At 8691 locations there is none.
Copper still on most streets
DSL over AT&T's telephone lines is reported at 83.3% of Memphis locations, a share that ranks tied for 16th highest among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more and is far above Tennessee's 49.4%. The share has barely moved, down 1.6 percentage points since 2022: DSL is reported at 176,349 locations and fiber from any provider at 131,4421, so many locations with fiber also have DSL reported. For a home outside the fiber area, AT&T's DSL is advertised at no more than 100 Mbps download.
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 | Memphis | Tennessee |
|---|---|---|
| Fiber | 62.1% | 80.5% |
| Cable | 99.5% | 78.5% |
| DSL (copper) | 83.3% | 49.4% |
| Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home) | 94.0% | 86.2% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless | 0.0% | 2.0% |
The speed figures reflect the two wired networks rather than the copper. The fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more at 91.5% of locations, against 28.0% in June 2022. Gigabit service with uploads of at least 100 Mbps, the FCC's 1,000/100 tier, went from 32.1%2 to 92.1%1, a larger share than fiber alone reaches. Those are providers' advertised maximums, not measured speeds, and the FCC data carry no prices; each provider's broadband facts label lists its plans.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memphis | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 8.1% | 91.5% |
| Tennessee | 1.4% | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 36.5% | 60.5% |
| United States | 2.4% | 1.6% | 1.8% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 31.0% | 61.0% |
5G home internet: T-Mobile and Verizon
T-Mobile reports fixed wireless home internet at 78.7% of locations and Verizon at 76.7%. Verizon offers 100/20 Mbps at 42.6% of the city, T-Mobile at 28.6%. Licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps was reported at 22.5%2 of locations in 2022 and at 57.1%1 now. A tower sector's capacity is shared, so the carriers accept sign-ups address by address; a location shown as served may still be declined.
Fixed wireless matters most at the edges. At 229 locations it is the only terrestrial service at 100/20 Mbps, and 640 locations have no terrestrial option at that speed. Satellite is the only service reported at 22 locations. Under the federal BEAD definitions, 1081 Memphis locations are unserved.
Phone-only internet in many homes
The wires reach almost every address; what households buy is a different picture. In the Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey, 18.0% of Memphis households relied only on a cellular data plan (margin of error ±1.7 percentage points), the 29th highest share among large cities and clearly above Tennessee's 12.5%. Cable, fiber or DSL subscriptions stood at 71.4% (±1.8 percentage points), against 77.1% statewide, and 7.9% of households had no internet subscription (±1.3 percentage points4).
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) | 99.6% | |
| Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census) | 71.4% | ±1.8 |
| Households relying only on a cellular data plan | 18.0% | ±1.7 |
| Households with no internet subscription | 7.9% | ±1.3 |
The change since 2019 is large. In 2019, 26.3% of Memphis households had no internet subscription and 73.6% had broadband of any type; in 2025 those figures were 7.9% and 92.0%, gaps far wider than the survey's margins of error. Wired subscriptions rose from 55.8%5 to 71.4%4. Survey figures count households over a year and FCC figures count locations on one date, so the two describe the same city from different directions.
Memphis and its population peers
The comparison uses the same FCC release for every city.
| Area | Fiber available | Gigabit (1,000/100) | Two or more wired choices | Fiber networks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville, Kentucky | 88.6% | 98.7% | 87.1% | 6 |
| Portland, Oregon | 79.5% | 85.8% | 80.1% | 5 |
| Milwaukee, Wisconsin | 69.5% | 69.5% | 74.0% | 2 |
| Memphis, Tennessee | 62.1% | 92.1% | 64.5% | 7 |
| Fresno, California | 39.6% | 91.8% | 44.3% | 4 |
| Albuquerque, New Mexico | 34.0% | 63.4% | 38.3% | 6 |
| Detroit, Michigan | 27.4% | 78.6% | 35.3% | 5 |
| Baltimore, Maryland | 16.7% | 97.2% | 16.6% | 4 |
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 Tennessee page covers every county, including Shelby, and the state's BEAD plan; in Nashville, Xfinity and AT&T are joined by Google Fiber.
Memphis internet questions
What internet providers are available in Memphis?
Xfinity reports service at 99.5% of locations, almost all of it cable, and AT&T at 94.7%, a mix of fiber, DSL and fixed wireless. Ting reports fiber at 18.0%. T-Mobile (78.7%) and Verizon (76.7%1) report 5G or LTE home internet, and three satellite companies report service everywhere.
Is fiber internet available in Memphis?
At 62.1% of locations, as of June 30, 2026. AT&T reports fiber at 56.9% and Ting at 18.0%; at 13.1% of locations two or more fiber networks are reported. Across Tennessee the fiber share is 80.5%1.
How many internet providers are there in Memphis?
8 wired providers report service somewhere in the city, 52 in June 2022. Beyond Xfinity, AT&T and Ting, each reports a few hundred locations or fewer. At a typical address, 35.1% of locations have one wired provider at 100/20 Mbps, 51.2% have two and 13.4%1 have three.
Is Ting available in Memphis?
Ting reports fiber at 18.0% of the city's locations (38,164 homes and businesses), with a fastest advertised download of 2 Gbps1, as of June 30, 2026. It reported no service in Memphis in June 2022.
Checking one address in Memphis
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 Tennessee
The state picture, county by county: internet in Tennessee. Other large cities in the state: Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Clarksville and Murfreesboro. Compare Memphis 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.