The average census block area in Tampa has coverage by 2.95 companies. This means that a majority of houses in the area have a minimum of 2 choices for Internet.

The plans listed above are manually collected by our research staff.

Charter Spectrum and Frontier Communications can also provide coverage in Tampa, often competing for the same customers.

Coverage from the two most common companies, Viasat Internet (formerly Exede) and HughesNet, as a rule, will overlap. As residents might expect, the decision between Viasat and HughesNet is common.

Overall, Tampa's Internet situation follows a similar pattern to other Florida cities and towns: strong access to bundled cable and DSL, with the caveat that the majority of houses are stuck with one company for setting up either type of Internet service. The cable/DSL pattern is normal because Internet companies used to be TV and phone corporations. So, they use these existing networks for delivering their broadband Internet services. Fiber is growing as a third option. While some "Fiber" services aren't actually true "Fiber to the Home" connections, 96.52 percent of the population has coverage by fiber Internet that reaches as far as a box near the property line.