Colorado Springs is a Tier C metro that prices like a Tier B in the buildings Ting has reached. The city's own municipal utility, Colorado Springs Utilities, is building a citywide open-access fiber network, and Ting is the first anchor tenant lighting it up. That changes the math. In most Tier C markets you have Comcast, the ILEC, and not much else. Here you have a third fiber option that is actively pulling pricing down in residential and small commercial. The aerospace and defense cluster on the north side still buys mostly from Lumen and Comcast, but the small office market downtown and on the west side has real choice for the first time in a decade.
Colorado Springs is mostly a Comcast and CenturyLink market with growing Ting fiber competition. Comcast Business has the dominant cable footprint. CenturyLink (Lumen) has fiber in parts of the city. Ting Internet has been building fiber across the metro. T-Mobile fixed wireless is widely available.
The pricing problem in Colorado Springs is the assumption that Ting is too small to take seriously. They often deliver the cheapest fiber-to-the-building option in the metro for a single office.
How Colorado Springs is laid out
Colorado Springs's commercial demand sits in three places. Downtown Colorado Springs holds the legal, financial, and government corridor at the city's core. Southwest Downtown is the redeveloping mixed-use commercial cluster south of the central business district. Interquest Town Center, on the north side near I-25 and Interquest Parkway, is the suburban office park and corporate campus spine. Amentum and the broader aerospace and defense cluster drive most of the enterprise telecom demand in the metro.
In 2023, Ting launched 2 gigabit fiber service in initial Colorado Springs neighborhoods as the first anchor tenant on the Colorado Springs Utilities citywide fiber network, with broader expansion planned through 2028. One regulatory wrinkle: Colorado Springs commercial special districts carry ordinary debt-service mill levy caps of 50 mills plus up to 10 mills for operations, and the Southwest Downtown BID is funded by a self-imposed property mill levy that can pass through into commercial leases.
What you should be paying
These are dedicated internet ranges from current carrier wholesale data, marked up to typical retail.
Colorado Springs dedicated internet, typical retail (mid 50%)
Monthly recurring charge, dedicated internet access (DIA). Numbers are derived from current carrier wholesale quotes. Shown as a metro-tier band where city-level data is thin.
| Speed | Typical retail (mid 50%) | Sample size |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Mbps | $630 – $1,060/mo | n = 6 |
| 500 Mbps | $955 – $1,660/mo | n = 6 |
| 1 Gbps | $1,195 – $2,000/mo | n = 7 |
| 10 Gbps | $1,560 – $6,250/mo | n = 6 |
If your bill sits above the high end of the band, you are likely overpaying.
Analyze My Bill FreeFor Comcast Business coax at 600 Mbps, the fair price is $150 to $230 a month for a single office. For Ting Business Fiber at 1 Gbps, expect $130 to $200 a month where available.
Carriers worth quoting in Colorado Springs
Five carriers cover most addresses in the metro.
- Comcast Business. Coax everywhere, fiber in select buildings.
- CenturyLink (Lumen) Business. Fiber where they have rebuilt, copper elsewhere.
- Ting Internet. Fiber overbuilder, growing footprint across the metro.
- T-Mobile Business Internet. $85 a month for 200 to 300 Mbps. Useful benchmark.
- Verizon 5G Business Internet. $99 a month at 400 Mbps.
If you have not had three of these on a quote sheet, you have not run a real comparison.
What to do this week
- Pull your most recent invoice. Find the contract end date and the side fees.
- Get one quote from Ting if they reach your address.
- Compare your base rate to the bands above. If you are 20 percent above the high end, the retention call is worth making.
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Carriers worth a quote here
- Comcast Business
Dominant cable footprint across the entire metro, from downtown to the north-side office parks near Interquest. Pricing is consistent with their national playbook: list rates that look reasonable, then equipment rental, Wi-Fi Pro, and Broadcast TV fees on the invoice. They will match Ting on coax but rarely on fiber.
- Lumen Business
The ILEC here as CenturyLink, with fiber in downtown, Southwest Downtown, and parts of the north-side corporate campuses. They are the default for DIA serving Amentum and the aerospace tenants. Currently hungry for SMB deals and more negotiable than they were two years ago.
- Ting Internet
Anchor tenant on the Colorado Springs Utilities open-access fiber network, lighting neighborhoods on a rolling build through 2028. Symmetric gig and 2-gig pricing is materially cheaper than Comcast or Lumen where they have built. Small business sales team is responsive and the contracts are simple.
- T-Mobile Business
Fixed wireless covers almost the entire metro and is a useful failover under $100 a month. Not appropriate as a primary circuit for anything that needs SLA-grade uptime, but it pairs well with a wired primary for redundancy at small offices.
- Crown Castle Fiber
Has dark fiber and lit wave routes through Colorado Springs, mostly serving carriers, data centers, and large enterprise. Worth a quote if you need a wavelength or off-net build for a multi-site network with a Denver headquarters.
- Verizon Business
Not the ILEC here, but sells DIA off-net through partner local loops for national accounts. Pricing is rarely competitive against Lumen or Ting on a single Colorado Springs site, but they show up on multi-site RFPs where Verizon already serves your other locations.
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Common questions about business internet in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Is Ting Internet actually reliable enough for my business in Colorado Springs?
Yes, for most small offices. Ting runs symmetric fiber on the city's open-access network with a standard SLA on business plans. It is not the right choice if you need 99.99 percent uptime with credits, which means Lumen DIA or a diverse pair. For a single office that needs a fast, cheap, fiber primary, Ting is the most competitive option in the buildings they serve.
Why is my Comcast Business bill so much higher than the advertised price?
Three usual culprits. Equipment rental at $10 to $25 a month for a modem or Wi-Fi Pro. A Broadcast TV Surcharge that has nothing to do with TV. And a Network Enhancement or similar carrier-invented fee. None of these are taxes. The first two you can call and remove. The third is negotiable when your contract is within 90 days of renewal.
Should I buy DIA or business broadband for my Colorado Springs office?
If you have under 25 employees, a single office, and no specific uptime SLA requirement, business broadband on fiber is almost always the right answer at a fraction of the cost. If you run VoIP for a contact center, host customer-facing servers on-site, or have a contractual uptime obligation, DIA's SLA and symmetric bandwidth justify the premium. Most local SMBs overbuy here.
Does Lumen still serve Colorado Springs aggressively?
Yes. Lumen is the ILEC here under the old CenturyLink name and they hold most of the aerospace and defense DIA business on the north side. They are currently more negotiable than they have been in years, especially on 36-month renewals at end of quarter. If your circuit is on evergreen pricing from a 2019 contract, you are almost certainly overpaying by 20 to 40 percent.
Is T-Mobile fixed wireless a real option for my business?
As a backup, yes. As a primary, only if your work tolerates variable latency and occasional reroutes. It runs $50 to $100 a month and installs in a week. The right use is pairing it with a wired primary so that a fiber cut on the main circuit does not take your office offline. For a single-circuit primary in a real business, it is a stretch.
How do I know if my building is on Ting's fiber footprint?
Check the Ting Internet address lookup directly. The build is rolling neighborhood by neighborhood through 2028, so an address that is not lit today may be served in 12 to 18 months. If you are renewing a Comcast or Lumen contract right now and Ting is close, sign a shorter term, 12 or 24 months, so you keep the option to switch.