St. Louis is mostly an AT&T and Spectrum market with growing fiber competition from Brightspeed. AT&T Business Fiber covers a large share of commercial blocks. Spectrum Business has the dominant cable footprint. Brightspeed rebuilt fiber across parts of the metro and the suburbs. T-Mobile fixed wireless is widely available.
The pricing problem in St. Louis is the same one that hits most Spectrum markets. Promo rates expire after 12 or 24 months and reset 30 to 50 percent higher, and most customers do not call to renegotiate.
St. Louis commercial corridors
St. Louis commercial demand sits in three places. Downtown holds the legal, financial, and government corridor that anchors the city's daytime workforce and the bulk of its Class A office tower stock. Downtown West, the redeveloped mixed-use district just west of the urban core, has filled in with creative-office, hospitality, and adaptive-reuse tenancy over the past two decades. The Cortex Innovation District, the master-planned bioscience and technology cluster anchored between the medical campus and the urban core, anchors a deep concentration of life-sciences, startup, and research-office tenancy. BJC HealthCare, the academic-medical system tied to the Washington University School of Medicine, and Washington University in St. Louis, the city's largest private research university, are two of the largest commercial accounts in the metro and drive heavy enterprise telecom demand.
On October 1, 2024, Segra announced its acquisition of Everstream's all-fiber network in the St. Louis metro, adding nearly 1,000 route miles and expanding business connectivity options for commercial accounts in the metro. One pricing wrinkle: properties inside the Downtown St. Louis Community Improvement District can be assessed based on lot square footage and upper-floor building square footage, adding a localized cost layer around core business addresses that is 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.
St. Louis 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 | $610 – $800/mo | n = 6 |
| 500 Mbps | $955 – $1,315/mo | n = 5 |
| 1 Gbps | $1,195 – $1,605/mo | n = 7 |
| 10 Gbps | $2,190 – $2,760/mo | n = 6 |
If your bill sits above the high end of the band, you are likely overpaying.
Analyze My Bill FreeFor AT&T Business Fiber at 1 Gbps, expect $150 to $230 a month for a single office. For Spectrum coax at 600 Mbps, the fair price is $150 to $230 a month.
Carriers worth quoting in St. Louis
Five carriers cover most addresses in the metro.
- AT&T Business Fiber. Strong commercial fiber footprint across the metro.
- Spectrum Business. Coax everywhere, fiber in select buildings.
- Brightspeed Business. Fiber overbuilder rebuilding former Lumen consumer footprint.
- 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 outside your current carrier. T-Mobile Business Internet is the fastest benchmark.
- 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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