St. Petersburg, Florida Internet Outage Today
Live St. Petersburg internet outage reports and how households here get online.
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No internet outage reports in St. Petersburg, Florida in the last 24 hours
The most recent internet outage report from St. Petersburg came in on September 4, 2026. Over the past 90 days, St. Petersburg residents filed 2 internet outage reports here on 1 separate day.
Internet access in St. Petersburg
Wired service is unusually common in St. Petersburg: 81.6% of households have cable, fiber or DSL, against 75.6% nationally.
8 home internet providers reach at least 5% of the city's 143,577 homes. Satellite service is excluded. Source: FCC National Broadband Map, December 2025 data.
- Broadband subscription: 92.4% of 119,244 households (Florida 91.6%, US 91%). Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 (table S2801)
- Fiber to the home: available at 47% of 143,577 homes (US 55.9%). Gigabit plans: 53.3%. Cable: 95.8%.
- Home internet providers filing coverage here: Spectrum (95% of homes), WOW! (80% of homes), AT&T (74% of homes), Rapid Systems, Inc. (40% of homes), Frontier (31% of homes). 5G home or mobile coverage: 99.9% of the city area. Source: FCC National Broadband Map, Dec 2025 data
- Rank: 7th of 17 Florida cities we track (Coral Springs highest at 96.3%, Miami lowest at 83.6%).
- Cable, fiber or DSL: 81.6%. Cellular data only: 9.6% (US 11.5%). Wired lines are more common here than nationally.
- No internet subscription: 7.5%. No computer or smartphone: 3.3%. Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 (table S2801)
- Grid reliability, 2024: Duke Energy Florida customers averaged 2,500 minutes without power. Outages that long outlast the batteries in street-side cable and fiber cabinets. Source: EIA Form 861, 2024 reliability data
- Pinellas County storm record since 2015: 152 reports; power outages named in 7 episodes. Source: NOAA Storm Events Database
Source: Census ACS 2020–2024.
Source: FCC National Broadband Map, December 2025 data.
St. Petersburg is 4th of 6 nearby cities on this measure. Source: Census ACS 2020–2024.
| City | Widest wired provider | Fiber | Gigabit plans | No internet subscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Petersburg, FL | Spectrum (95%) | 47% | 53.3% | 7.5% |
| Clearwater, FL | Spectrum (93%) | 38.3% | 40.6% | 12.7% |
| Tampa, FL | Spectrum (92%) | 75.4% | 81.3% | 6.4% |
| Lakeland, FL | Spectrum (93%) | 47.4% | 58.7% | 10.4% |
| Cape Coral, FL | Xfinity (98%) | 90.9% | 94.3% | 7% |
Source: FCC National Broadband Map, December 2025 data; Census ACS 2020–2024.
Checked September 2026.
Internet providers in St. Petersburg
Share of St. Petersburg homes each provider reported it can serve, in FCC filings for December 2025: Spectrum (95%), WOW! (80%), T-Mobile Home Internet (78%), AT&T (74%), and Verizon (66%). Check your own address on the FCC National Broadband Map. If the lights are out too, see St. Petersburg power outages.
Router checks: internet outage guide. Nationwide: US internet outages.
Who to check first in St. Petersburg
The providers with the widest reported coverage in St. Petersburg. Start with the one on your bill.
Spectrum in St. Petersburg
Reach: reports service to 95% of St. Petersburg homes. Network: Cable, run by Charter Communications.
Where to check: Sign in to the My Spectrum app or spectrum.net; outages at your address show on the account page.
AT&T in St. Petersburg
Reach: reports service to 74% of St. Petersburg homes. Network: Fiber, DSL/IPBB and AT&T Internet Air (fixed wireless), run by AT&T.
Where to check: Use AT&T's outage check in the Smart Home Manager app or on att.com after signing in.
Support: 800-288-2020
Frontier in St. Petersburg
Reach: reports service to 31% of St. Petersburg homes. Network: Fiber and DSL, run by Frontier Communications.
Where to check: Sign in to the MyFrontier app or frontier.com to check for outages at your address.
Backup internet options in St. Petersburg
Spectrum (95% of homes) and WOW! (80%) each report service to more than half of St. Petersburg homes. At an address that can get both, they run on separate lines.
Home 5G and fixed-wireless plans from T-Mobile Home Internet (78%) and Verizon (66%) report coverage of St. Petersburg homes (Verizon’s figure combines Fios fiber and 5G Home). They run over cell towers rather than cable or fiber, so they can work when a wired network is down. Cell coverage by area is 100% for 4G LTE and 99.9% for 5G.
About 9.6% of St. Petersburg households, roughly 11,400 homes, get online only through a cell plan. For them a mobile outage is an internet outage.
Power and weather behind internet outages in St. Petersburg
Duke Energy Florida customers averaged 2,500 minutes without power in 2024, across 2.21 interruptions each, against 1,322 minutes for Florida as a whole. Cable nodes and fiber cabinets run on batteries that last hours, not days, so a long power cut can take internet down even for homes whose own power has returned. See St. Petersburg power outages when both go out together.
Pinellas County logged 152 storm reports since 2015, most often thunderstorm wind, lightning, and tornado. Reports peak in August. Power outages were named in 7 of those storm episodes. Wind, ice and flooding damage poles and buried lines, which is how a storm turns into an internet outage as well as a power outage.
Fiber reports reach 47% of St. Petersburg homes, cable 95.8% and copper lines 0.2%. Cable is the main wired technology here. One neighborhood node feeds many homes, so a node fault usually shows up as a whole street offline at once.
St. Petersburg internet outage questions
Does a cell network outage take down home internet in St. Petersburg?
For the 9.6% of St. Petersburg households that rely only on a mobile data plan, yes. The 81.6% with cable, fiber or DSL are not affected.
What can I use for internet in St. Petersburg when my provider is down?
A phone hotspot: 4G LTE covers 100% of St. Petersburg by area and 5G 99.9%. Home 5G plans: T-Mobile Home Internet (78%) and Verizon (66%). Where both Spectrum and WOW! are available, the second wired line is a backup.
Can a power outage take internet down in St. Petersburg?
Yes, a long power cut can. Duke Energy Florida customers averaged 2,500 minutes without power in 2024. NOAA records name power outages in 7 storm episodes in Pinellas County since 2015.
Is fiber or gigabit internet available in St. Petersburg?
Fiber is reported at 47% of St. Petersburg homes (US 55.9%, Florida 57.2%), and plans of 1 Gbps or faster at 53.3% (US 69.2%).
How many St. Petersburg households have no home internet?
About 8,900 of 119,244 households, or 7.5%, have no internet subscription of any kind, and another 9.6% rely only on a cell plan (Census ACS 2020–2024).
Which internet provider covers the most homes in St. Petersburg?
Spectrum, at 95% of homes in its FCC filing. Fiber reaches 47% of St. Petersburg homes and gigabit plans 53.3%.
ISP outage status for St. Petersburg
Recent internet reports in St. Petersburg
- Internet reports in St. Petersburg, last 24h
- 0
- Most recent internet report here
- September 4, 2026
- Internet reports across Florida, last 24h
- 0
- City population
- 258,308
Other outage types in St. Petersburg
Internet Outages in cities near St. Petersburg
- Clearwater, FL 15 mi
- Tampa, FL 18 mi
- Lakeland, FL 48 mi
- Orlando, FL 95 mi
- Cape Coral, FL 95 mi
- Palm Bay, FL 129 mi
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