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Local Broadband Providers & Coverage Maps
Broadband Providers
We recommend you consult our table, then perform an Internet search on broadband providers in Google or Bing or another search engine to find contact info. (If you’re a local provider and not listed, please email us.)Provider | Wireline | Cellular Wireless |
Fixed Wireless |
Satellite |
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AT&T | Yes (DSL, U-verse) |
Yes |
No | No |
Colfax.net | No | No | Yes | No |
Comcast | Yes (Cable) | No | No | No |
DigitalPath | No | No | Yes | No |
exWire | No | No | Yes | No |
GoSkyWestBroadband | No |
No | Yes |
No |
Hughes Net |
No | No | No | Yes |
Race Communications | Yes (Fiber - Coming Fall 2020) | No | No | No |
Smarter Broadband |
Yes (DSL) |
No | Yes |
No |
Sprint | No | Yes | No | No |
Succeed.net | Yes (DSL) |
No | Yes | No |
Starlink | No (coming late 2020/21) | No | No | Yes |
Suddenlink | Yes (Cable) |
No |
No | No |
Vast Networks | Yes (Fiber - Commercial / institutional accounts only) | No | No | No |
Verizon Wireless |
No |
Yes | No | No |
ViaSAT | No | No | No | Yes |
If you’re a business, most providers have a special business sales unit to service you. Ask for the local representative when you call their main numbers as you will get better service from a representative that knows your area.
The image of the map provided is just a best guess approximation of where the ISP's deliver services since they do not provide us this information. Phase 1 is Race Communication's new 1-Gigabit fiber to the home project. This is an older approximation of the project area which has been reduced a bit. Suddenlink covers the Town of Truckee and Donner Summit and just announced they will be upgrading their Town of Truckee infrastructure to support 1-Gigabit Internet as well as their Lake of the Pines and Alta Sierra systems.
Coverage Map
The State of California conducts regular surveys of providers to build broadband coverage maps. There is a lot of debate in the community on the accuracy of these maps. As discussed under the challenges section, it is difficult for a provider to describe the larger general area they cover and then to accurately take out all the individual “pockets” that they can’t reach. This leaves the map with a more positive depiction of local broadband coverage than is reality. The best thing to do is to contact all the providers in your area and find out which ones can actually service your location, then at what speeds and for what costs.Multiple Provider Options
Many residents don’t realize that there are multiple broadband providers in our community, so if you call one and they can’t provide you service, don’t give up. Keep contacting other providers, especially the wireless providers for the more rural locations.The image of the map provided is just a best guess approximation of where the ISP's deliver services since they do not provide us this information. Phase 1 is Race Communication's new 1-Gigabit fiber to the home project. This is an older approximation of the project area which has been reduced a bit. Suddenlink covers the Town of Truckee and Donner Summit and just announced they will be upgrading their Town of Truckee infrastructure to support 1-Gigabit Internet as well as their Lake of the Pines and Alta Sierra systems.
Map Notes
Truckee: The entire town limit and some of the Donner summit area is served by Suddenlink. AT&T provides DSL and fiber services in Truckee too. exWire is a local fixed wireless provider in the area that reaches outside of the wired providers footprints. Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T offer LTE/4G cellular based data services. Satellite is always an option too.
Truckee: The entire town limit and some of the Donner summit area is served by Suddenlink. AT&T provides DSL and fiber services in Truckee too. exWire is a local fixed wireless provider in the area that reaches outside of the wired providers footprints. Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T offer LTE/4G cellular based data services. Satellite is always an option too.
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Stephen T. Monaghan
Agency Director / Chief Information OfficerPhone: 530-265-1238
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Information & General Services
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