Why won’t carriers just tell me if they serve my address?

Serviceability is the qualifying question their sales process is built around. Answering it costs them a lookup; making you ask for it hands them a contact record and a conversation. That is why every carrier site puts the address field in front of a form rather than in front of an answer.

How current is this data?

It comes from FCC Form 477 filings from June 2021, self-reported by the carriers themselves at census-block level. It is genuinely useful for narrowing the field and genuinely wrong at the edges. Current address-level availability comes from the Broadband Data Collection, which requires a licensed CostQuest Fabric location ID — that is not obtainable for free, which is why we verify every address against live carrier tools before quoting.

A provider is listed but shows no speed. Does that mean no service?

Usually the opposite. A blank or zero maximum speed most often marks a dedicated, individually priced circuit rather than an off-the-shelf package — the kind of service that is quoted per building rather than advertised. Those are worth asking about, not ruling out.

What does this cost me?

Nothing. Carriers fund their indirect channel out of the same budget as their own sales team, so pricing through an agent is list or better. You are not paying a markup for the comparison; the carrier is paying to avoid the cost of finding you.

Who actually delivers and bills the service?

The carrier does, on the carrier’s paper. We source and compare quotes and stay involved through install, but the contract, the circuit and the invoice are theirs. Nothing routes through us, and nothing is marked up.

Can you check more than one location?

Yes, and it is the thing this tool does that the consumer lookup sites do not. Paste up to twelve addresses and you get a serviceability matrix for all of them, then one comparison covering every site instead of one process per building.

What if nothing is reported at my address?

It still gets sourced. Form 477 data misses fixed wireless operators, regional fiber builds completed after the filing, and anything sold under a brand that differs from the filing entity. An address with no reported providers is a normal outcome, not a dead end.

Who can actually get internet to your building?

Every carrier makes you sit through a sales call before they'll tell you whether they even serve your address. Start here instead: check what's reported at your location, then let us get real pricing from the ones that can deliver.

⚡ Instant address check🏢 One site or twelve🔒 No login required💸 Costs you nothing — carriers pay the channel

More than one site? — it takes no longer than checking one.

Check an address

See which providers report business service at your location, from public FCC filings. Instant, no email required.

Why go through us instead of calling the carrier?

It's a fair question, and the answer is mostly about who pays us.

It doesn't cost you anything: Carriers pay us out of their channel budget — the same budget that funds their own sales team. Nothing is added to your bill, and the pricing we bring back is carrier list or better. You are not paying a middleman; you are using the carrier's indirect channel instead of their direct one.
One process instead of five: Going direct means five carriers, five reps, five quote formats and five follow-up cadences, most of which start with a serviceability check they will not run until you have sat through a discovery call. We run them in parallel and hand you one comparison.
Nobody here is on one carrier's payroll: A Comcast rep will confirm Comcast is available. They will not mention that Lumen lit the building last year. Our commission is within roughly a point and a half across the major carriers, so steering you costs us as much as it gains — the incentive is to get it right and keep the account.
We know which line items to argue with: Special construction charges that appear after you sign. Evergreen auto-renewal clauses. Early termination liability calculated on the full remaining term. Whether you actually need a dedicated circuit or whether business coax is fine for what you do. These are the things that cost real money, and none of them are on the quote.
The circuit and the phone system are one project: Number porting, E911 registration and cutover sequencing are where these go wrong, and they go wrong at the seam between two vendors who each say it is the other's problem. We hold both ends.
You keep the quotes either way: If you take what we find and sign direct, that is genuinely fine. There is no fee, no exclusivity and nothing to sign to get the comparison.

Get real pricing for this address

We'll check live carrier serviceability, pull pricing for what actually delivers there, and send you a comparison. No carrier sales calls.

What this check tells you, and what it doesn't

The results above come from FCC Form 477 filings — the dataset in which carriers report, census block by census block, where they offer service. It is public, it is free, and it is the same underlying source behind most of the consumer “providers at my address” sites. It is also self-reported and dated June 2021, which means three specific things worth understanding before you act on it.

It is block-level, not building-level. A census block can span a street. A carrier that serves the office park across the road counts as serving your block, and a building fifty feet outside the fiber footprint looks identical to one inside it. Block-level data narrows the field honestly; it cannot confirm a drop to your suite.

It is self-reported. Carriers file their own coverage. Overstatement is common enough that the FCC replaced this program with the Broadband Data Collection specifically to fix it — but current address-level BDC availability requires a licensed CostQuest Fabric location ID, which is not something a free tool can obtain. Anyone claiming live address-level accuracy without that license is inferring, same as this page.

A missing speed is not a missing service.Where a provider appears with no maximum speed, that usually marks a dedicated circuit priced per building rather than a packaged product with an advertised tier. Those are frequently the right answer for a business, and reading them as “no service” is the most common mistake people make with this data.

All of which is the honest reason this page has a second step. The lookup narrows a national field down to a short list in a few seconds. Confirming which of those can genuinely deliver to your demarc, at what price, on what build timeline, is a human process against live carrier tools — and it is the part carriers make you trade a sales call for.

Why serviceability is so hard to find out

Every carrier could publish an address checker that returns a real answer. Most publish one that returns a form. The reason is structural rather than technical: serviceability is the qualifying question their entire sales motion is organized around, so the moment you ask it you have identified yourself as a business with a building and a budget. Handing that away for free removes the reason for the call.

The practical consequence is that comparing four carriers means four sales processes, four discovery calls, and four proposals that arrive on different days in different formats with different contract terms — for a decision that usually comes down to price, term, and whether the build requires construction.

How sourcing through an agent works

Carriers sell through two channels: their own sales teams, and an indirect channel of agents. Both are funded from the same customer-acquisition budget, which is the part most buyers do not realize. Going through the indirect channel does not add a markup to your price — the carrier pays the channel instead of paying its own rep, and the paper, the circuit and the invoice remain entirely the carrier's.

That structure is why this check costs you nothing, and it is worth being precise about what we are and are not: we source and compare quotes across every carrier that can serve the building, and we stay involved through the install. We do not resell the circuit, mark it up, or bill you for it.

What that actually catches, in our experience, is fairly mundane:

Special construction charges that surface late, after a site survey, on a quote that looked competitive before the build cost appeared.
Evergreen renewal clauses and the notice windows attached to them — the mechanism that quietly re-commits more businesses than early termination fees ever do.
Termination-fee math when you are leaving an existing contract, including whether the incoming carrier will absorb any of it and what that promise needs to say in writing.
Circuit and phone system as one project, rather than a cutover where the two vendors each assume the other is handling the porting.

If you have more than one location

Multi-site is where this gets genuinely tedious to do yourself. Every consumer lookup tool checks one address at a time, so twelve branches means running the same process twelve times and assembling the comparison in a spreadsheet — and then repeating the whole exercise with each carrier's sales team.

Use the multiple-locations option above and you get a serviceability matrix across every site in one pass, then a single sourcing conversation covering all of them. Checking twelve addresses takes no longer than checking one, and it usually surfaces the thing that matters most for a multi-site buyer: which locations have real competition and which have exactly one option, so you know where you have leverage before anyone quotes you.

Common questions

Why won’t carriers just tell me if they serve my address?: Serviceability is the qualifying question their sales process is built around. Answering it costs them a lookup; making you ask for it hands them a contact record and a conversation. That is why every carrier site puts the address field in front of a form rather than in front of an answer.
How current is this data?: It comes from FCC Form 477 filings from June 2021, self-reported by the carriers themselves at census-block level. It is genuinely useful for narrowing the field and genuinely wrong at the edges. Current address-level availability comes from the Broadband Data Collection, which requires a licensed CostQuest Fabric location ID — that is not obtainable for free, which is why we verify every address against live carrier tools before quoting.
A provider is listed but shows no speed. Does that mean no service?: Usually the opposite. A blank or zero maximum speed most often marks a dedicated, individually priced circuit rather than an off-the-shelf package — the kind of service that is quoted per building rather than advertised. Those are worth asking about, not ruling out.
What does this cost me?: Nothing. Carriers fund their indirect channel out of the same budget as their own sales team, so pricing through an agent is list or better. You are not paying a markup for the comparison; the carrier is paying to avoid the cost of finding you.
Who actually delivers and bills the service?: The carrier does, on the carrier’s paper. We source and compare quotes and stay involved through install, but the contract, the circuit and the invoice are theirs. Nothing routes through us, and nothing is marked up.
Can you check more than one location?: Yes, and it is the thing this tool does that the consumer lookup sites do not. Paste up to twelve addresses and you get a serviceability matrix for all of them, then one comparison covering every site instead of one process per building.
What if nothing is reported at my address?: It still gets sourced. Form 477 data misses fixed wireless operators, regional fiber builds completed after the filing, and anything sold under a brand that differs from the filing entity. An address with no reported providers is a normal outcome, not a dead end.