What is the best internet provider in Birmingham?
AT&T Fiber is the best internet provider in Birmingham, with symmetrical upload and download speeds, transparent pricing and high customer satisfaction scores. It’s especially attractive for AT&T cellphone customers, who can save $20 monthly by bundling with AT&T Fiber.
If you’re looking for the lowest prices, Spectrum offers the cheapest internet in Birmingham, with plans starting at $30 per month. That said, prices increase significantly after a year or two, and equipment isn’t included in the base price. If you’d rather not worry about caveats like these, T-Mobile Home Internet is an excellent alternative. Its speeds aren’t quite as fast as AT&T Fiber’s or Spectrum’s, but everything you need is included in its $50 monthly price, and your rate is locked in for as long as you stay a customer.
CNET considers speeds, pricing, customer service and overall value to recommend Birmingham’s best internet service providers across several categories. Our evaluation includes referencing a proprietary database built over years of reviewing internet services. We validate that against provider information by spot-checking local addresses for service availability. We also do a close read of providers’ terms and conditions and, when needed, will call ISPs to verify the details.
Despite our efforts to find the most recent and accurate information, 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.
Also, the prices, speed 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 speed 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 Birmingham. 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 signing a term contract or bundling with multiple services.
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