Internet in Plano, Texas

Spectrum and Frontier wire the city

Plano has 82,105 broadband serviceable locations, the FCC's term for each home, apartment building or business that could take an internet connection, counted within the 2020 Census boundary of the city. Nearly every one of them is on Spectrum's network: the company reports 96.8%, mostly cable plus fiber at 2.1%, and its top advertised download is 1 Gbps. Frontier's fiber covers 85.4%, with tiers advertised up to 7 Gbps¹.

Every row comes from the providers' own filings for the National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026 (revision of November 10, 2026). "Available" here means the company says it can connect a location within ten business days of an order; residents who find otherwise can file a challenge through the FCC map. Starlink, HughesNet and Viasat claim all of Plano, as they do nationwide, but none of them advertises 100/20 Mbps, so the rest of this page leaves them out.

The smaller fiber names cover a few hundred locations each: Astound (399) and Hotwire Communications (125). In all, 5 companies report fiber somewhere in Plano, a count that ranks tied for 103rd highest¹ among the 343 US cities of 100,000 or more.

A Frontier city among AT&T suburbs

Frontier took over Verizon's wireline telephone and FiOS fiber operations in Texas, California and Florida, a transfer the FCC approved in September 2015. On the current map, that network is what separates Plano from most of the suburbs around it. Several nearby cities have about as much fiber, but from AT&T: AT&T reports fiber at 92.0% of locations in Frisco, 83.4% in Allen, 86.7% in McKinney and 87.7% in Richardson. Plano's pattern matches Carrollton and Garland instead: Frontier reports fiber at 88.5% of locations in Carrollton and 79.9%¹ in Garland.

Frisco93.5%

Garland91.6%

Allen91.0%

Plano90.7%

Carrollton90.3%

McKinney89.4%

Richardson89.2%

Dallas84.4%

Texas74.4%

United States62.6%

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
Frisco	93.5%
Garland	91.6%
Allen	91.0%
Plano	90.7%
Carrollton	90.3%
McKinney	89.4%
Richardson	89.2%
Dallas	84.4%
Texas	74.4%
United States	62.6%

The total fiber share ends up similar across the area, between 89.4% in McKinney and 91.6% in Garland, and well above Texas as a whole (74.4%). The difference for a household is which company supplies it. Where the two footprints meet there is some overlap: in Allen, Frontier also reports fiber at 21.3%, and in Plano AT&T reports fiber at 15.4%. Only 12.5%¹ of Plano locations can choose between two fiber networks.

Two wires at most addresses

Practically all of Plano, 97.0%, can order a wired connection of 100/20 Mbps or faster. The typical address has a pair to pick from: exactly two wired companies offer that speed at 77.2% of locations, usually Frontier's fiber and Spectrum's cable, and a third joins them at 11.9%. Taken together, 89.1% of the city has at least two such options; the Texas figure is 66.2%¹.

NoneOneTwoThree or more

Plano

Frisco

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
Plano	3.0%	7.9%	77.2%	11.9%
Frisco	1.3%	7.4%	75.6%	15.7%
Texas	9.6%	24.2%	48.8%	17.4%
United States	7.8%	36.6%	44.6%	11.1%

The single-wire share, 7.9% of locations, is almost entirely Spectrum: it is the only wired 100/20 provider at 7.7%, the parts of the city Frontier's fiber does not reach. Frontier is the only one at 0.1%¹. That split has hardly moved since June 2022, when the single-wire share was 7.9%².

What changed since 2022: copper out, AT&T on the air

Fiber was already reported at 89.2% of Plano locations in June 2022, so its rise to 90.7% ranks 35th lowest among large cities. The larger shift was in older and wireless technologies. DSL over copper telephone lines fell from 25.6%² of locations to 1.9%, the largest change for any technology in Plano's data. Shares, not counts, are compared here, because the FCC's list of Plano locations changed by +1,709¹ over the four years.

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

Fiber available90.7% +1.5 pts

DSL available1.9% −23.7 pts

Fixed wireless 100/2040.4% +10.8 pts

Wired 100/100 Mbps97.0% +7.9 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	89.2%	90.6%	90.7%	1.5 pts
DSL available	25.6%	1.9%	1.9%	−23.7 pts
Fixed wireless 100/20	29.5%	44.4%	40.4%	10.8 pts
Wired 100/100 Mbps	89.1%	97.0%	97.0%	7.9 pts

AT&T's footprint changed character. It now reports service at 63.2% of Plano's locations, yet fiber at only 15.4% and DSL at no more than the citywide 1.9%; most of the rest is licensed fixed wireless, and AT&T offers 100/20 Mbps at just 19.8%. T-Mobile reports home internet at 83.9% of locations, advertised up to 100 Mbps, with 100/20 at 35.5%. Verizon reports 6.4%, up to 1 Gbps. Licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps or more reaches 40.4%¹ of locations, down from 44.4%³ in December 2025. Because every home on a cell sector draws on the same radio capacity, the carriers decide eligibility one address at a time; a reported location is not a guarantee of a sign-up.

Uploads and multi-gigabit tiers

Symmetrical wired service of at least 100/100 Mbps was advertised at 89.1%² of locations in June 2022, roughly the fiber footprint. It now reaches 97.0%, a share that ranks tied for 83rd highest among large cities, which means cable, almost all of it Spectrum's, reports uploads of 100 Mbps or more where fiber does not reach. Gigabit service with fast uploads, the FCC's 1,000/100 tier, moved the same way, to 97.0%. The fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more at 88.1%¹ of locations, a tier only the fiber networks advertise in Plano. All of these are maximums the providers report, not measured speeds.

The few locations left out

Plano's gaps are small and scattered. No wired company offers 100/20 Mbps at 2,448 locations. For 823, a fixed wireless carrier is the only way to reach that speed. BEAD, the federal grant program for building broadband, would classify 82 Plano locations as unserved, meaning nothing reliable by wire or licensed fixed wireless reaches even 25/3 Mbps, and at 47¹ nothing but satellite is reported.

Households: wired subscriptions near the top

Availability is one question; what people actually sign up for is another, answered by a Census Bureau survey of households rather than an FCC count of locations. In 2025, 89.4% of Plano households subscribed to cable, fiber or DSL (margin of error ±2.0 percentage points), the 5th highest estimate among large cities. Only 6.8% relied on a cellular data plan alone (±1.7 percentage points), and 2.4% had no internet subscription (±1.0 percentage points⁴). Neighboring estimates in such rankings often overlap within their margins, so the rank shows that Plano is among the highest, not its exact place.

Set beside the suburbs from the fiber comparison, Plano's survey figures look like this:

The Texas page maps every county and describes the state's BEAD plan. Dallas and Frisco have their own pages.