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.
See where your Colorado Springs bill sits against current rates
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