Verizon Coverage and Availability

Verizon home internet isn’t as widely available as its wireless cell phone coverage that you can find in all 50 states. Its 5G and Fios fiber services exist mostly all over the East Coast.

Verizon’s 5G home internet service relies on its fixed wireless network, superior to other internet connections such as sloth-like DSL and costly cable internet. It has a larger footprint than its fiber service (Verizon Fios), offering almost 25% coverage according to the FCC broadband map and available to around 900 cities nationwide.

According to Verizon’s site, its 5G Home Internet is also available in some West Coast regions including parts of California, Arizona, and Colorado.

Verizon still offers 4G LTE home internet services in certain locations where there is no Verizon 5G or Fios services available. For the record, Verizon’s surprisingly fast 5G speeds gets it into our Best 5G Home Internet Service of 2025.

Verizon Fios has much more limited availability than Verizon 5G home internet. It offers fiber internet to around 15 million homes and businesses (with fiber outshining 5G internet connection every time). Its fiber service runs on a 100% fiber-optic network providing symmetrical download and upload speeds (which means you’re hardly ever going to ask, why is my internet slow today?).

Verizon Fios is only available in the mid-Atlantic and New England area—a total of eight northeastern states and the Washington D.C. area. According to the FCC coverage map, Verizon Fios has 9% coverage, but it still stands as the second largest fiber provider (just behind AT&T Fiber). It also makes it into the top five fiber providers in our deep dive review of the best fiber internet providers of 2025.

According to Verizon’s own site, here are some of the cities that offer Verizon 5G Home Internet:

On the other hand, Verizon Fios is available in these cities (not the full list):

As of 2023, Verizon owned 10.7 million internet connections in the United States. However, based on Verizon’s fourth quarter results of 2024, the big internet provider added 408,000 new internet subscribers (Fios and 5G), bringing the total of connections to over 12.3 million. And it’s going all in with huge investments to expand its home internet services.

Verizon’s CEO Hans Vestberg, told investors in 2024 about “ambitious targets.” His plan to acquire Frontier came to fruition just recently as did his statement that, “This is a game changing moment for Verizon.” Verizon’s current goal for its 5G internet network is to double its 5G network base to eight or nine million fixed wireless connections over the next four years.

Following its $20 billion deal in May 2025 to acquire Frontier (another huge fiber internet provider with five million customers), Verizon has massive plans to level up and grow Frontier’s existing fiber infrastructure. Plans include boosting its fiber network to 35 to 40 million homes in that time—with a target of 650,000 new homes annually over the next four years.

This merger also marks Verizon’s moment to reclaim some of the Fios fiber internet connections it sold to Frontier in 2015. Brendan Carr, FCC Chairman, also shared that the merger will bring fiber to more rural communities as well.

According to the map from Frontier's second quarter 2024 results press release and investor presentation, Verizon Fios (red color) and Frontier (blue color) combined will reach 25 million and 31 states plus Washington D.C.

Verizon was the first internet provider to debut its 5G home internet service in October 2018. Sacramento, Los Angeles, Houston, and Indianapolis were the first states to test it out. Verizon 5G currently operates on millimeter wavelength (mmWave) 5G technology that performs at radio frequencies of around 28 GHz and 39 GHz.

To support the expansion of Verizon’s 5G internet network, it plans to lean in to the power of its C-band and mmWave spectrum technology. In a nutshell, these two technologies complement each other as C-band offers wide coverage and seamless performance, while mmWave provides high speeds. Verizon plans to continue its 5G expansion using this new C-band equipment on macro cell towers as well as deploying the new 5G Ultra Wideband service using small cells. It plans to grow its 5G base to a total of 90 million households by 2028. In the company’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Hans Vestberg stated, “... we build the network once. And then … we decide what type of connections we have.”

Verizon remains committed to providing more internet to rural areas.

In 5G expansion news, T-Mobile recently asked the FCC to hold off on a planned $9 billion program to expand rural 5G coverage. Verizon opposed the request in hopes that more locations could be eligible for funding.

In fiber expansion news, the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program is ready to provide funds for some new fiber networks. In Verizon’s BEAD letter of intent from November 2024, Verizon shares that it has already deployed Fios to parts of 45 counties and cities in Virginia including fiber projects in Bedford, Caroline, Greensville, and Price William counties. This letter goes on to list 133 Virginia counties and cities that Verizon might serve with more internet access under the BEAD program (from Accomack County to York County).

In Delaware, Verizon received all the BEAD funding available to that state. In December of 2024, the Delaware Broadband Office awarded Verizon and Comcast $17.4 million (with a total of $107 million in BEAD funding) with the goal to serve more than 5,600 homes and businesses. Kent, New Castle, and Sussex counties are slated to get service. In addition to this BEAD funding, Comcast, Verizon, and Mediacom also received the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to connect 6,200 additional locations with $33 million.

Verizon offers two 5G Home Internet plans and four Fios plans with prices that remain consistent across different regions. Differences in pricing can occur if certain bundles or deals are added to your base internet plan (and these bundles or deals can vary based on your specific location).

Check out our guides that track all of Verizon 5G Home Internet plans and deals and all of Verizon Fios plans and deals. These pages lay out details, availability in your zip code, and even give you the opportunity to sign up for the Verizon plan that interests you.

As you can see from the maps in the first section, Verizon 5G Home Internet and Verizon Fios are not widely available … far from it. However, we live in 2025, and that means you have options (and some great ones too).

Cox offers cable (and some fiber) internet in parts of the South, Midwest, and West and East Coasts. It offers a variety of plans with multi-gigabit options. But unlike Verizon, you have to be ready to pay if you go over its data cap allowance. It also offers a Cox mobile service, but you don’t get a discount like you do if you bundle a Verizon wireless and internet plan.

T-Mobile 5G Home Internet dominates coverage compared to Verizon 5G Home Internet as it is available in every state (with some gaps here and there). However, Verizon 5G wins in terms of speed with plans that go up to 1,000Mbps while T-Mobile’s highest 5G speed crawls around 400Mbps (though that’s more than adequate for most households).

Spectrum internet is widely available to 30 million people across 41 states. It offers mostly cable and some fiber services, which means that its cable connection can be more stable than Verizon’s 5G connection (5G internet tends to fluctuate). Both providers offer up to 1,000Mbps in download speeds, but many people especially rave about Verizon’s stupendous reliability (Verizon 5G outages are surprisingly rare). Both Spectrum and Verizon offer great discounts (mobile discounts too), so depending what’s available to you, Spectrum and Verizon could both be a solid option.

If you get a fiber internet option at your home (vs. cable, 5G, DSL, or even satellite), that’s the one you want. But Verizon Fios is very limited even if you’re on the East Coast.

When comparing some of the biggest fiber providers like Google Fiber and AT&T Fiber, you can see that AT&T Fiber is more widely available than both Google and Verizon. Here are some other notes from the big fiber providers.

• Google Fiber is hands down the best fiber internet you can get because of its flat monthly rate starting at $70 per month (bit higher than Verizon) and its powerhouse speeds. It’s the Mary Poppins of fiber, as it’s practically perfect in every way.
• But AT&T Fiber holds its own with its five fiber plans that go up to 5,000Mbps (way more than Verizon Fios, but arguably unnecessarily high).

You don’t have to worry about any extra fees for AT&T and Verizon except for a professional installation fee (Google Fiber has no installation fee). Both Verizon and AT&T plans start around $50 per month, and both offer amazing add-on perks.

Bottom line: If Google Fiber, AT&T Fiber, or Verizon Fios services are available to you, you’re a lucky human.