Spokane is mostly a Comcast and Ziply market. Comcast Business has the dominant cable footprint. Ziply Fiber rebuilt fiber across much of the metro after acquiring the Frontier Northwest properties. CenturyLink (Lumen) has fiber in parts of the city. T-Mobile fixed wireless is widely available.
The pricing problem in Spokane is the assumption that Ziply is too small to take seriously. They are usually the cheapest fiber-to-the-building option in the metro, but most businesses default to Comcast without a comparison.
Spokane's commercial weight
Spokane's commercial demand sits in three places. Downtown Spokane holds the legal, financial, and government corridor centered on Riverside Avenue and the surrounding Class A office stock that anchors the metro's daytime workforce. The University District, the academic and research-office cluster east of downtown anchored by WSU Spokane and Gonzaga, has filled in with university-adjacent office, healthcare, and creative-tech tenancy over the past two decades. Playfair Commerce Park, the master-planned commercial cluster on the city's east side, anchors a growing concentration of light-industrial, logistics, and back-office tenancy outside the urban core. Gonzaga University, the city's largest private institutional anchor, and Providence Holy Family Hospital, among Spokane County's largest employers with more than 1,000 staff, are two of the largest commercial accounts in the metro and drive heavy enterprise telecom demand.
In June 2024, the Spokane Journal of Business reported that TDS Fiber had started a $60 million to $70 million build-out across Spokane and Spokane Valley, with the City of Spokane saying the schedule called for reaching 70 percent of the city's residential units within five years, putting another fiber-to-the-building competitor on the city's blocks. One pricing wrinkle: Spokane uses Parking and Business Improvement Areas as special assessment districts, and the city says the downtown Spokane BID is financed through assessments on businesses, multifamily projects, and mixed-use developments inside the district, often passed through in commercial leases.
What you should be paying
These are dedicated internet ranges from current carrier wholesale data, marked up to typical retail.
Spokane 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 Ziply Fiber Business at 1 Gbps, expect $130 to $200 a month for a single office. For Comcast Business coax at 600 Mbps, the fair price is $150 to $230 a month.
Carriers worth quoting in Spokane
Five carriers cover most addresses in the metro.
- Ziply Fiber Business. Strong fiber footprint across the metro.
- Comcast Business. Coax everywhere, fiber in select buildings.
- CenturyLink (Lumen) Business. Fiber where they have rebuilt, copper elsewhere.
- 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 Ziply 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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