25 providers
report service in 77073,
with top advertised speeds up to
10 Gbps.
Availability varies street by street — call to confirm your exact address.
A regional fiber builder offering multi-gigabit symmetrical service in the markets it has reached. Its 8 Gig tier is one of the cheapest multi-gigabit plans on the market.
Fidium Fiber is the consumer fiber brand of Consolidated Communications, sold in California, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas and Vermont. Every plan runs on fiber — there is no cable or DSL tier — and the range goes from 300 Mbps to 8 Gig. Plans carry no contract and no data cap, and professional installation is included.
Contract:
No contract required
Data allowance:
No data cap
Equipment:
Wi-Fi gateway included; mesh extenders included on the 5 Gig and 8 Gig plans
EarthLink sells internet nationally without owning last-mile infrastructure in most markets, renting capacity on other companies' fiber, copper and wireless networks and billing the customer itself. The catalogue spans fiber from 100 Mbps to 5 Gbps, DSL from 18 to 75 Mbps, and fixed wireless and 5G home service for addresses wired networks do not reach. Fiber and DSL plans include unlimited data. Pricing is not published openly — EarthLink quotes rates only after you enter an address.
Contract:
Twelve-month term on fiber and DSL; 5G home service is month to month
Data allowance:
Unlimited data on fiber and DSL; fixed wireless plans are metered
Frontier sells symmetrical fiber internet across parts of the Northeast, Texas, Florida, California and the Midwest, with tiers reaching 7 Gbps. Upload matches download on every fiber plan, there is no data cap and no annual contract, and an Amazon eero router is supplied with the service. Each tier comes with a multi-year price guarantee — four years on Fiber 500 and five years on the gigabit plans — with the advertised rates conditional on Auto Pay and paperless billing.
Contract:
No annual contract, though an early-termination fee applies in the first year
Data allowance:
No data cap
Equipment:
Amazon eero router included with the plan
AT&T runs one of the largest fiber networks in the country, concentrated in the South, the Midwest and Texas. Where fiber has not been built it sells Internet Air, a fixed wireless service delivered over its 5G network. Fiber plans are symmetrical, carry no data cap and require no contract; DSL is no longer sold to new customers.
Kinetic is the residential brand Windstream sells under, concentrated in small-town and rural markets across the South, the Midwest and the mid-Atlantic. Fiber plans run from 100 Mbps to 2 Gbps and are backed by a price guarantee that lasts one to three years depending on the tier. Where fiber has not been built, Windstream still sells a DSL plan at up to 50 Mbps. No plan carries an annual contract.
Contract:
No annual contract on any plan
Data allowance:
Unlimited data
Equipment:
$10.99 a month for the Kinetic Wi-Fi Gateway; included on Fiber Max 2 Gig
Xfinity is the consumer brand of Comcast and runs one of the largest cable broadband networks in the United States. Its current residential tiers are sold with a rate that is held for five years rather than a twelve-month introductory price, and the advertised figures assume autopay from a bank account together with paperless billing. Plans carry unlimited data and no term contract.
Contract:
No term contract
Data allowance:
Unlimited data on the current residential plans
Brightspeed took over the copper landline territory CenturyLink sold off in 2022 and has been overbuilding it with fiber since. Its fiber tiers run from 200 Mbps to 8 Gbps and are symmetrical up to the 2 Gig plan. The older DSL service is still sold at addresses fiber has not reached yet, at speeds well below what the fiber plans offer. No plan carries an annual contract or a data cap.
Contract:
No annual contract on any plan
Data allowance:
No data caps
Equipment:
Router included on fiber; a $15 monthly modem lease applies on some tiers
Spectrum is the residential brand of Charter Communications and sells cable internet across a large multi-state footprint. Plans are priced as a first-year rate that reverts to the standard rate afterwards, and none of them carry a term contract or a monthly data allowance. A modem is included in the price; the Advanced WiFi router is bundled on the faster tiers and sold as a monthly add-on on the cheaper ones.
Contract:
No term contract on any plan
Data allowance:
No data cap
Equipment:
Modem included; Advanced WiFi is $10 a month on the cheaper tiers
Optimum serves the New York metropolitan area and pockets of the South and West, running cable in most of its footprint and fiber in the areas it has upgraded. Plans start at 300 Mbps and reach 8 Gbps on fiber, with no data cap and no annual contract. Optimum attaches a three- or five-year price lock to each tier, and the gateway is included for the first twelve months before a monthly charge begins.
Contract:
No annual contract
Data allowance:
No data cap
Equipment:
Gateway at $0 for the first 12 months, then up to $5 per month
T-Mobile 5G Home Internet is a fixed wireless service that reaches the house over T-Mobile's 5G network rather than a wire. T-Mobile quotes typical download speeds of 170–354 Mbps on the entry plan and 170–498 Mbps on the mid tier, with uploads of 12–55 Mbps; what an individual address gets depends on signal from the nearest tower. All three plans include unlimited data, a gateway at no extra charge and no annual contract, and a $35 device connection charge applies at setup.
Contract:
No annual contract on any plan
Data allowance:
Unlimited data, with reduced speeds possible during congestion and above 1.2 TB per month
Equipment:
Gateway included at no additional charge
MINTernet is a regional fixed wireless provider serving parts of New York City. Service reaches the building over the air rather than by a wire, so the speed at a given address depends on the signal it can get.
Verizon 5G Home Internet delivers home broadband over the same 5G network Verizon uses for mobile service, with a receiver placed in the home rather than a line run to it. Three tiers are sold — 5G Home, 5G Home Plus and 5G Home Ultimate — quoted at download speeds of up to 100, 150 and 300 Mbps respectively. All three come with unlimited data, an included router and no annual contract, and each carries a price lock running three, four or five years by tier. This is the fixed wireless product and is separate from Verizon Fios, which runs on fiber.
Contract:
No annual contract; price locked for three to five years by plan
Data allowance:
No data limits on any 5G Home plan
Equipment:
Router included with every plan at no additional charge
Viasat sells geostationary satellite internet across the continental United States, aimed at addresses where wired broadband has not been built. The current residential lineup is two plans — Essentials, which includes a fixed allowance of high-speed data, and Unleashed, which is unlimited but slows in priority for heavy users. Viasat quotes service speeds of up to 25 to 150 Mbps and states that the figure varies by location, so the tier available at one address may not be available at another.
Contract:
Unleashed is month-to-month; Essentials requires a 12-month service term
Data allowance:
Essentials includes 150 GB of high-speed data; Unleashed is unlimited but deprioritized above roughly 850 GB in 30 days
Equipment:
Dish and modem are leased for $15 per month
Rise Internet is a fixed wireless provider covering rural and suburban addresses across ten states — Texas, Illinois, Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, Iowa, Nevada, Nebraska and Idaho. Service is delivered by radio from a nearby tower to an antenna at the home rather than over a wire, so the speed a household actually gets depends on the strength of that signal. Rise does not publish a residential plan and price list; both are quoted after an address check.
Equipment:
Rise Advanced Wi-Fi mesh equipment supports up to 150 connected devices
ispMint is listed as offering 5G home internet in the Columbus, Georgia area. Service arrives over a mobile network rather than a wire, so the speed at a given address depends on the signal it can get.
About this data:
Coverage and speeds for this ZIP code were compiled from the availability and speeds each
provider publishes for this area, rather than from the
FCC National Broadband Map.
Speeds shown are the maximum a provider advertises in this area, not a guaranteed or typical
rate. Prices are not published by the FCC, so every price here was taken from a rate the
provider advertised publicly, last checked September 2026 — several
providers quote only after an address check.
Providers report availability by area, so service can differ from one address to the next.
Confirm with the provider before ordering.
Every provider in Houston, TX, side by side
The same providers as above, stripped back to the things worth comparing first.
Prices are the lowest each provider advertises anywhere, not a quote for this address.
Coverage is recorded per provider, so these figures show the widest-reaching provider of each kind
rather than the combined footprint of all of them. Read each as a floor: at least this much of
this city can get it. These are the figures published for Houston, TX as a whole — the share within 77073 on its own is not published, and can be higher or lower.
By connection type
99%
Cable
3 providers
99%
Fixed Wireless
11 providers
97%
Fiber
12 providers
97%
DSL
1 provider
85%
Satellite
1 provider
By speed
How much of this city can get at least this download speed from some provider.
25 Mbps or faster
99% · 23 providers
100 Mbps or faster
99% · 19 providers
300 Mbps or faster
99% · 18 providers
1 Gbps or faster
99% · 13 providers
Which provider is best in Houston, TX?
There is no single answer — it depends on which of these you care about. Each line below is read
straight off the data on this page, not an opinion about the companies.
Cheapest entry price:Kinetic by Windstream,
from $20 a month — the lowest rate it advertises anywhere, before taxes and equipment.
Most likely to reach you:Xfinity,
covering 99% of Houston, TX.
If you want fiber:Hotwire Communications
runs fiber here. Fiber uploads at close to its download speed, which cable and fixed wireless do not.
What speed do you actually need?
Size the plan to the household rather than buying the biggest number available. Most homes are
comfortable well below the top tier, and the upload speed is usually what people notice missing.
Speed
Suits
Comfortable with
Worth knowing
Under 25 Mbps
One person, one thing at a time
Email and browsing · Music streaming · Standard-definition video
Below the FCC's definition of broadband. Workable alone, frustrating shared.
25–100 Mbps
A small household
HD streaming on two or three screens · Video calls · Working from home
Enough for most couples and small families. The upload speed matters more than the download here.
100–300 Mbps
A busy family
4K streaming · Several people working at once · Online gaming · Large downloads
The range most households land in, and the one with the most competition on price.
300–1,000 Mbps
Heavy, simultaneous use
Multiple 4K streams · Uploading video or large files · A house full of devices
Worth paying for if you upload as much as you download. Otherwise the gain is hard to feel.
Over 1,000 Mbps
More than most homes can use
Moving very large files daily · Running servers or a small business from home
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