Internet in Mesquite, Texas
Fiber is available at 91.5% of the 42,699 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Mesquite, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 98.0%. 91.0% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 7.0% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
Mesquite in Texas
Mesquite is a city of two overlapping networks: AT&T reports fiber at 90.6% of its homes and businesses, and Spectrum's cable reaches 95.9%. Fiber covered 65.4% of the city in June 2022 and covers 91.5% four years later, while addresses with a single fast wired option shrank from 28.3%2 to 7.0%1.
AT&T and Spectrum at almost every address
As of June 30, 2026 (FCC revision of November 10, 2026), the National Broadband Map holds 42,6991 homes, apartment buildings and businesses within Mesquite's 2020 Census boundary. Each row below is a company and the portion of those locations where it says it offers service.
| AT&T | Fiber DSL Licensed wireless | 97.4% | 92.2% | 5 Gbps | 1.0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spectrum | Fiber Cable | 95.9% | 95.9% | 1 Gbps | 5.9% |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 79.7% | 38.3% | 300 Mbps | – |
| T-Mobile | Licensed wireless | 68.5% | 20.0% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Nextlink Internet | Licensed wireless | 26.0% | 26.0% | 500 Mbps | – |
| Optimum | Fiber Cable | 4.4% | 4.4% | 940 Mbps | 0.0% |
| Rise Broadband | Fixed wireless | 4.3% | 0.0% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Hotwire Communications | Fiber | 0.7% | 0.7% | 8 Gbps | – |
| Point Broadband Fiber Holding LLC | Fixed wireless | 0.0% | 0.0% | 40 Mbps | – |
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.
Wired service here comes down to two names. Spectrum files 95.9% of locations, nearly all on cable with a small fiber section, with downloads advertised up to 1 Gbps. AT&T files 97.4%: its fiber alone reaches 90.6% of the city, sold at up to 5 Gbps, and the remainder is DSL on copper phone lines or fixed wireless. AT&T is the lone fast wired option at 1.0%1 of locations, which means every street with AT&T fiber also has Spectrum cable.
Everyone else is a minor presence. Optimum lists 1,873 locations and Hotwire Communications 276, on fiber sold at up to 8 Gbps1. The three satellite companies, Starlink, HughesNet and Viasat, list the entire city but none at 100/20 Mbps, so the choice counts on this page ignore them.
A company listing a location is saying it would install service there within ten business days of an ordinary request. Anyone who finds a listing wrong can file a challenge through the FCC map.
Fiber's spread since 2022
The first National Broadband Map, dated June 30, 2022, showed fiber at 65.4%2 of Mesquite's locations. The December 31, 2025 release had 89.3%3, and June 2026 has 91.5%: a gain of 26.1 percentage points. Since AT&T's fiber by itself now covers 90.6%, more than the whole city had in 2022, the bulk of that gain is AT&T's. The FCC's location list for Mesquite also changed, by +2,3931 on net, so this page compares percentages, not raw counts.
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 | 65.4% | 89.3% | 91.5% | 26.1 pts |
| One wired choice | 28.3% | 8.7% | 7.0% | −21.3 pts |
| 2 Gbps or more | 20.5% | 82.6% | 85.0% | 64.6 pts |
| DSL available | 38.7% | 32.9% | 32.3% | −6.4 pts |
The bigger shift was in top speeds. Locations whose fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or higher went from 20.5% in 2022 to 85.0%; the Texas share is 63.0%. The FCC's 1,000/100 tier (a gigabit down, 100 Mbps up) went from 65.3%2 to 97.7%1. Because that is higher than the fiber share, cable in Mesquite now also advertises 100 Mbps uploads. Each of these is a ceiling the companies advertise, not a speed anyone measured.
Copper went the opposite direction: DSL dropped from 38.7%2 of locations to 32.3%1.
Two wires, seldom a third
Wired service at 100/20 Mbps or faster can be ordered at 98.0% of Mesquite's locations. The unusual part is how evenly the city splits: 87.5% have precisely two such wired companies, the 22nd highest share among the 343 US cities above 100,000 residents. Texas as a whole is at 48.8%. Only 3.5%1 have a third wire, largely in the pockets Optimum or Hotwire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesquite | 2.0% | 7.0% | 87.5% | 3.5% |
| Garland | 3.5% | 6.7% | 89.6% | 0.2% |
| Dallas | 2.9% | 14.1% | 81.9% | 1.1% |
| Texas | 9.6% | 24.2% | 48.8% | 17.4% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
The one-wire share, 7.0%, works out to 2,980 locations, and Spectrum is that wire in nearly every case: it is the only fast wired company at 5.9%. 863 locations have no wired company selling 100/20 Mbps. Under BEAD's definition, unserved means nothing at 25/3 Mbps from a wired or licensed wireless provider; 11 Mesquite locations qualify, and 41 have satellite and nothing else.
Wireless home internet filled in
Fixed wireless expanded in step with fiber. Mesquite had 3 companies filing licensed fixed wireless in 2022 and has 4 today. Locations where one of them sells 100/20 Mbps or more climbed from 13.0%2 to 62.3%1.
Verizon's filing covers 79.7% of locations, at 100/20 Mbps for 38.3%. T-Mobile's covers 68.5%, at 100/20 Mbps for 20.0%. Nextlink Internet, absent from the June 2022 map in Mesquite, now files 26.0% of locations, every one at 100/20 Mbps or above, topping out at 500 Mbps. Rise Broadband files unlicensed fixed wireless at 4.3%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 | Fixed wireless 100/20 |
|---|---|
| Texas | 62.3% |
| Mesquite | 62.3% |
| United States | 47.9% |
| Dallas | 45.8% |
| Irving | 35.9% |
| Garland | 31.7% |
A tower sector's bandwidth is split among its users, so a wireless filing marks where a carrier sells the service, not a promise that every home on the map could join on the same day.
Fewer homes without a subscription
Household data come from a different federal source, the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, which asks people what internet service they pay for. For 2025, it puts Mesquite households with no subscription at 5.9% (margin of error ±2.5 percentage points), against 11.6% (±2.8 percentage points5) in 2019, a drop clear of the margins. 81.5% (±4.2 percentage points4) pay for cable, fiber or DSL.
The phone-only figure is low for a large city. 8.2% of households (±2.9 percentage points) use a cellular data plan and nothing else, under the 13.1% estimated for Texas. Garland's network looks much like Mesquite's, yet its phone-only estimate is 22.8% (±3.5 percentage points), 4th highest4 among large cities. The survey gives no reasons for these choices.
| Area | Two or more wired choices | Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL | Households relying only on a cellular data plan | Households without an internet subscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesquite, Texas | 91.0% | 81.5% ±4.2 | 8.2% ±2.9 | 5.9% ±2.5 |
| Garland, Texas | 89.7% | 69.8% ±3.6 | 22.8% ±3.5 | 5.0% ±2.4 |
| Dallas, Texas | 83.0% | 76.0% ±1.6 | 14.1% ±1.4 | 6.2% ±1.0 |
| Irving, Texas | 82.4% | 70.5% ±3.2 | 21.4% ±3.1 | 5.7% ±1.9 |
| Texas | 66.2% | 76.8% ±0.3 | 13.1% ±0.2 | 5.4% ±0.1 |
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people. ± is the 90% margin of error.
For one city at a time, survey margins run to several points, so read close values in this table as ties. County maps and the state's BEAD plan are on the Texas page; Garland and Dallas each have a page of their own.
Questions about internet service in Mesquite
Which companies offer home internet in Mesquite, TX?
The two wired networks are Spectrum, mostly cable, at 95.9% of the city's locations, and AT&T at 97.4%, mostly fiber plus some DSL and fixed wireless. Verizon (79.7%), T-Mobile (68.5%) and Nextlink Internet (26.0%1) offer fixed wireless. Optimum and Hotwire Communications cover small pockets. All figures are the companies' own FCC filings, dated June 30, 2026; a single address can be looked up on the FCC map.
Can I get fiber in Mesquite?
In most of the city: some provider reports fiber at 91.5% of Mesquite's locations as of June 30, 2026, compared with 74.4% statewide and 62.6% for the whole country. AT&T's network accounts for nearly all of it, and just 3.2%1 of locations have a second fiber company.
How many internet companies serve Mesquite?
Counting the whole city, 4 wired companies file service, or 9 with fixed wireless added. Most homes see two: 87.5% of locations have exactly two wired companies selling 100/20 Mbps, and 3.5%1 have a third.
Do Verizon and T-Mobile sell 5G home internet in Mesquite?
Both file it across most of the city: Verizon at 79.7% of locations with a top advertised download of 300 Mbps, T-Mobile at 68.5% with 100 Mbps1. Sign-up depends on spare capacity on the nearest tower, which each carrier checks per address.
Checking one address in Mesquite
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 Texas
The state picture, county by county: internet in Texas. Other large cities in the state: Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, El Paso, Arlington, Corpus Christi, Plano, Lubbock, Laredo and Irving. Compare Mesquite 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.