The best business internet providers in Dallas, TX

Summary

Dallas companies can move data at 10 Gbps on Lumen and Zayo dedicated fiber. AT&T Dedicated Fiber rounds out the fastest tier with widely available multi-gig service.

The top 3 best business internet service providers in Dallas

1. Lumen brings 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps dedicated fiber. A one-gig circuit costs about $696 per month and reaches AWS us-east-2 in under three milliseconds.

2. Zayo lights private-wave service from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps. A one-gig line runs near $545 per month and rides a dark-fiber ring beneath I-35 E.

3. AT&T Dedicated Fiber offers symmetrical 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps. Its shared-fiber tier (300 Mbps to 1 Gbps) starts around $518 per month and includes automatic 5 G backup.

Pros

Lumen

• Direct Cloud Connect ports hit AWS and Azure fast.
• Tickets reach a Dallas NOC engineer in fifteen minutes.
• Circuits can burst twenty-percent above contract when traffic surges.

Zayo

• Dense dark-fiber grid under Downtown and Uptown.
• Easy path to 100 Gbps without new trenching.
• One invoice covers DIA and private waves.

AT&T Dedicated Fiber

• 99.999 percent uptime with a two-hour repair target.
• Static-IP block at no extra charge.
• Built-in 5 G fail-over keeps offices online during fiber cuts.

Cons

Lumen

• Must sign a three-year term to waive install fees.
• Managed router costs extra on sub-gig plans.

Zayo

• Lateral builds can take ninety days.
• Dark-fiber IRU contracts last a long time.

AT&T Dedicated Fiber

• Proprietary hardware needs a tech visit to replace.
• Monthly rates rise fast above the two-gig tier.

Other popular options for Dallas business internet

• Crown Castle
• Spectrum Dedicated Fiber
• Spectrum Coax
• Comcast Fiber
• Comcast Coax
• Frontier Dedicated Fiber
• Frontier Shared Fiber (FiOS)
• Google Fiber
• Verizon Dedicated Fiber
• Verizon Shared Fiber (FiOS)

Meter Connect manages business internet service providers in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area

Across Dallas County, Meter Connect installs 10 Gbps dedicated fiber in Uptown towers and 1 Gbps coax with LTE backup for Bishop Arts retailers. Every address gets fiber, coax, or fixed-wireless service that balances speed and uptime.

• Downtown Dallas – Home to Reunion Tower and the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Banks and law firms here bond dual 5 Gbps waves for low-latency workloads.
• Deep Ellum – Near the Traveling Man statue. Music venues and design studios stream live sets over 2 Gbps shared fiber.
• Design District – Showrooms along Riverfront Boulevard move large CAD files on 1 Gbps coax with LTE backup.

Neighborhood coverage: Where you can get business internet

Downtown Dallas • Uptown • Deep Ellum • Design District • Bishop Arts • Victory Park • West • Lower Greenville • Knox-Henderson • Trinity Groves • Lakewood • Oak Cliff • Medical District • Preston Hollow • Highland Park • Vickery Meadow • Love Field • Cedars • Farmers Market • State-Thomas

Meter Connect helps all types of businesses get connected to the best-fit internet options around you.

Factors to consider: How Meter chose the best business providers

• Speed requirements – Lumen or Zayo give the city’s fastest multi-gig fiber.
• Coverage – Spectrum Coax reaches almost every Dallas ZIP.
• Contract flexibility – Spectrum offers month-to-month coax. Lumen waives install only on three-year fiber terms.
• Additional features – AT&T bundles free 5 G fail-over on dedicated-fiber circuits.