Fibră AT&T is CNET’s top pick for the cel mai bun furnizor de internet in Fresno, California. That’s because it offers great upload and download speeds at competitive monthly rates. The main drawback is AT&T Fiber’s limited coverage area, which doesn’t extend to all Fresno neighborhoods, leaving many residents without access.

If AT&T Fiber isn’t available at your address, Xfinity is a solid alternative, with some of the most affordable plans starting at just $35. Just be aware of potential price hikes and additional fees after promotional periods end. T-Mobile is another worthy option that works particularly well for smaller households with one or two people. However, it also offers plans for larger families, like its $70 All-In Home Internet plan, which has slightly faster speeds and better Wi-Fi hardware.

Our team looks at speed, pricing, customer service and overall value to recommend the best internet service. We use a special database that we’ve built over years of reviewing internet services. To ensure accuracy, we also check if the service is available at local addresses. We read the terms and conditions of providers carefully and, when needed, contact ISPs to confirm the details, too.

Our process has some limitations you should know about. Pricing and speed data are variable: Certain addresses may qualify for different service tiers, and monthly costs may vary, even within a city. The best way to identify your particular options is to plug your address into a provider’s website. 

Note that the prices, speeds and other information listed above and in the provider cards below may differ from what we found in our research. The cards display the full range of a provider’s pricing and speeds across the US, according to our database of plan information provided directly by ISPs. At the same time, the text is specific to what’s available in Fresno. The prices referenced within this article’s text come from our research and include applicable discounts for setting up automatic payments each month — a standard industry offering. Other discounts and promotions might also be available for things like committing to a contract or bundling with a cellphone plan. 

To learn more about how we review internet providers, visit our full methodology page.

Top internet providers in Fresno

No matter where you live in Fresno, you’ll likely have access to some good internet options. AT&T Fiber is available to about a quarter of Fresno residents and offers the fastest speeds at fair prices. Those who can’t get AT&T Fiber have a good backup in Xfinity, which is available almost everywhere in the city.

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What other internet options are there in Fresno?

There are a few other internet providers operating in Fresno, but they typically have slower speeds and higher prices. Still, they’re worth considering in more rural areas.

• Kingsburg Media Foundation: This fixed wireless provider is only worth a look as a last resort. Plans start at $75 a month for just 10/5Mbps speeds — a worse value than even satellite internet. The edge it has on satellite is that all of its plans come with unlimited data.  
• Internet prin satelit: In general, satellite internet is only used in rural areas where faster options aren’t available. You can get HughesNet și Viasat everywhere in Fresno, but speeds are low, prices are high and data caps are extremely stingy. Starlink is a newer provider from SpaceX that delivers faster speeds than HughesNet and Viasat, but it has an upfront equipment cost of $349, and plans start at $120 monthly.
• Internet 5G de acasă Verizon: Like T-Mobile Home Internet, Verizon has begun leveraging its own cellular network to deliver home internet wirelessly. It has two plans available in Fresno, with speeds up to 250Mbps at some addresses. That noted, availability is more limited than T-Mobile — only 29% of Fresno households will be able to get Verizon.

Pricing info on Fresno home internet service

Fresno residents have some extremely cheap internet plans available — and most of them are from one provider. Xfinity offers some of the cheapest starting prices you’ll find anywhere in the country, but you’ll have to take a close look at the fine print to avoid a sticker shock.

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How fast is Fresno broadband?

Compared to other cities of its size, Fresno has an abundance of fast internet plans available. Three different providers offer “gig speeds” — download speeds of 940Mbps or higher — and AT&T Fiber offers symmetrical speeds up to 5,000Mbps in some areas. Currently 66% of Fresno can get 1,000/100Mbps speeds, according to FCC data.

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What’s the final word on internet providers in Fresno?

For the portion of Fresno households that have access to AT&T Fiber, picking an internet provider is an easy decision. AT&T has symmetrical upload and download speeds, straightforward and reasonable pricing, and the best customer satisfaction scores of any provider in the country. Xfinity is a worthy backup option, but its pricing is complicated and your bill will increase after the first year. T-Mobile Home Internet offers decent performance for $50 a month, but its speeds are best for households with just one or two people. 

How CNET chose the best internet providers in Fresno

Furnizorii de servicii de internet sunt numeroși și regionali. Spre deosebire de cele mai recente smartphone, laptop, router sau ustensile de bucătărie, it’s impractical to personally test every internet service provider in a given city. So what’s our approach? For starters, we tap into a proprietary database of pricing, availability and speed information that draws from our own historical ISP data, partner data and mapping information from the Federal Communications Commission at FCC.gov. 

Acest ghid utilizează un instrument intern de inteligență artificială numit RAMP, care este antrenat pe baza propriilor noastre scrieri și folosește baza noastră de date pentru a genera conținut despre anumiți furnizori de servicii de internet pe care scriitorii noștri îi pot folosi în determinarea și prezentarea recomandărilor noastre pentru un anumit ghid. Verificați Politica CNET privind inteligența artificială for more information about how our teams use (and don’t use) AI tools. 

Because our database is not exhaustive, we go to the FCC’s website to check the primary data for ourselves and make sure we’re considering every ISP that provides service in an area. Plans and prices also vary by location, so we input local addresses on provider websites to find the specific options available to residents. To evaluate how happy customers are with an ISP’s service, we look at sources including the American Customer Satisfaction Index and J.D. Power. ISP plans and prices are subject to frequent changes; all information provided is accurate as of the time of our pre-publication fact-check.

Odată ce avem aceste informații localizate, ne punem trei întrebări principale: 

1. Furnizorul oferă acces la viteze rezonabile de internet? 
2. Clienții primesc o valoare decentă pentru ceea ce plătesc? 
3. Sunt clienții mulțumiți de serviciile lor? 

Răspunsurile la aceste întrebări sunt adesea stratificate și complexe, dar furnizorii care se apropie cel mai mult de „da” la toate trei sunt cei pe care îi recomandăm. Atunci când selectăm cel mai ieftin serviciu de internet, căutăm planurile cu cea mai mică taxă lunară, deși luăm în considerare și aspecte precum creșterile de preț, taxele pentru echipamente și contractele. Alegerea celui mai rapid serviciu de internet este relativ simplă. Ne uităm la vitezele de încărcare și descărcare promovate și luăm în considerare date despre viteză din lumea reală din surse precum Ookla şi Rapoarte FCC(Dezvăluire: Ookla este deținută de aceeași companie-mamă ca și CNET, Ziff Davis.)

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