Internet in Irving, Texas

Spectrum and Frontier carry the city

The FCC counts 51,483 broadband serviceable locations in Irving: each house, apartment building or business that could take a connection, inside the city limits as drawn for the 2020 Census. Spectrum reports service at 95.6% of them, and Frontier at 63.3%, all of it fiber. Those two networks carry the city. AT&T reports service at 55.4% of locations, but offers 100/20 Mbps at only 24.5%¹.

Each row is the provider's own filing for the National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026, in the FCC revision of November 10, 2026. A location counts as served when the company says it could connect it within ten business days of an order; anyone who finds otherwise can challenge the listing on the FCC map. Starlink, HughesNet and Viasat list every location in Irving, as they do across the country, without offering 100/20 Mbps anywhere in the city, so they are left out of the counts below.

Irving has a long list of wired companies for its size. 7 report wired service, a count tied for 55th highest among the 343 US cities of 100,000 or more, and 6 report fiber (tied for 64th highest¹). Most of them reach few homes.

Fiber: mostly Frontier

At least one provider reports fiber at 82.8% of Irving's locations, against 74.4% statewide and 62.6% nationally. Frontier's share alone is 63.3%. Frontier's Texas network came from Verizon: in September 2015 the FCC approved the transfer of Verizon's wireline operations in Texas, held by its subsidiary GTE Southwest, to Frontier, including the FiOS fiber network in the areas sold. Frontier's top advertised download in Irving is 7 Gbps¹.

AT&T, the largest fiber provider in neighboring Dallas, reports fiber at 18.7% of Irving's locations, advertised up to 5 Gbps. Spectrum adds fiber at 2.0%. The footprints seldom overlap: two or more fiber providers reach 1.2%¹ of locations.

Cable is the near-universal layer, at 94.1% of locations. DSL over telephone copper is now reported at only 6.6%, against 26.7%¹ across Texas.

Two wired choices at most addresses

Wired service of 100/20 Mbps or faster is reported at 95.9% of Irving's locations. At 82.1%, exactly two wired providers offer it, typically Frontier and Spectrum; that share ranks 38th highest among large cities. A third provider at that speed is rare, at 0.2%¹ of locations.

NoneOneTwoThree or more

Irving

Texas

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
Irving	4.1%	13.6%	82.1%	0.2%
Texas	9.6%	24.2%	48.8%	17.4%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

The 13.6% of locations with a single fast wired option are almost all Spectrum-only addresses: Spectrum is the sole wired 100/20 provider at 13.2%. The share with two or more choices rose from 76.6%³ in June 2022 to 82.4%, above the Texas figure of 66.2%¹.

The gaps are counted in dozens, not percentages. No wired provider offers 100/20 Mbps at 2,103 locations; 21 meet the federal BEAD program's definition of unserved, with nothing reliable at 25/3 Mbps, and satellite is the only service reported at 10¹.

Since 2022: copper switched off, uploads raised

The largest change on Irving's map since June 30, 2022 is the end of most DSL: it was reported at 40.6% of locations then and 6.6% now, a fall of 33.9 percentage points. Fiber grew more slowly, from 76.3%³ to 82.8%. The comparison uses shares because the FCC's list of Irving locations changed by +1,097¹ over the period.

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

DSL available6.6% −33.9 pts

Fiber available82.8% +6.5 pts

Gigabit (1,000/100)95.9% +19.8 pts

2 Gbps or more77.2% +15.2 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)
DSL available	40.6%	6.7%	6.6%	−33.9 pts
Fiber available	76.3%	80.9%	82.8%	6.5 pts
Gigabit (1,000/100)	76.1%	95.9%	95.9%	19.8 pts
2 Gbps or more	62.1%	75.3%	77.2%	15.2 pts

Upload speeds moved further than coverage. Gigabit service with uploads of at least 100 Mbps, the FCC's 1,000/100 tier, was advertised at 76.1% of locations in June 2022, about the reach of fiber at the time. It is now advertised at 95.9%, a share tied for 112th highest among large cities, so it now covers more of the city than fiber does. Symmetrical wired service of 100/100 Mbps followed the same path, to 95.9%; since DSL cannot carry it, the locations without fiber get it over cable. The fastest advertised tier is 2 Gbps or more at 77.2%¹ of locations, up from 62.1%³. These are maximums the providers advertise, not measured speeds.

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

Irving

Texas

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
Irving	1.7%	0.6%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	18.7%	77.2%
Texas	1.8%	1.1%	2.1%	2.1%	2.2%	27.8%	63.0%
United States	2.4%	1.6%	1.8%	1.4%	0.9%	31.0%	61.0%

AT&T's presence grew while its copper shrank. It reported service at 28,533¹ Irving locations in June 2026, more than three times its June 2022 count, and most of the addition is licensed fixed wireless rather than fiber.

Fixed wireless: wide claims, narrower 100/20 service

3 providers report licensed fixed wireless in Irving, up from 2³ in June 2022. T-Mobile reports home internet at 82.0% of locations, with a top advertised download of 100 Mbps; Verizon reports 30.1% and advertises up to 1 Gbps. Licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps or more reaches 35.9%¹ of locations, down from 51.0%⁴ in December 2025.

Unlicensed fixed wireless, reported at 2.6%³ of locations in June 2022, is now at 0.0%¹.

One household in five on a phone plan alone

Wires at the curb do not decide what a household buys. In the Census Bureau's American Community Survey for 2025, 21.4% of Irving's 97,532 households relied only on a cellular data plan for internet at home (margin of error ±3.1 percentage points), against 13.1% across Texas. Subscriptions to cable, fiber or DSL stood at 70.5% (margin of error ±3.2 percentage points), a share 25th lowest among large cities; statewide it is 76.8%².

Garland22.8% ±3.5

Irving21.4% ±3.1

Dallas14.1% ±1.4

Grand Prairie13.8% ±3.2

Texas13.1% ±0.2

Arlington11.8% ±1.8

Mesquite8.2% ±2.9

Plano6.8% ±1.7

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables. Whiskers show the 90% margin of error. Period: 2025.

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Area	Households relying only on a cellular data plan	MOE
Garland	22.8%	±3.5
Irving	21.4%	±3.1
Dallas	14.1%	±1.4
Grand Prairie	13.8%	±3.2
Texas	13.1%	±0.2
Arlington	11.8%	±1.8
Mesquite	8.2%	±2.9
Plano	6.8%	±1.7

Garland, at 22.8%, is the one nearby city in the same range; Dallas is at 14.1% and Plano at 6.8%. The cellular-only share in Irving was 21.7% in 2019, within the margin of today's figure, while the share of households with no subscription at all fell from 11.5%⁵ to 5.7%², a drop larger than the margins of error. The survey counts households and the FCC counts locations, so the two sets of figures describe the same city from different sides rather than adding up.

Irving beside its Dallas County neighbors

Irving borders Dallas and Grand Prairie, and both get their fiber from AT&T: it reports fiber at 81.8% of locations in Dallas and 85.5% in Grand Prairie. Irving belongs with the Frontier cities to its north and east, but Frontier's fiber covers less of it than of them: 63.3% of locations, against 88.5% in Carrollton and 79.9% in Garland. Irving's total fiber share, 82.8%, is below Carrollton's (90.3%), Garland's (91.6%) and Grand Prairie's (87.4%), and close to Dallas's (84.4%¹).

The Texas page maps every county, including Dallas County, where Irving lies, and the Plano and Dallas pages cover a nearby Frontier city and the neighboring AT&T city.