Best internet providers in Mooresville, North Carolina

Choose your internet provider based on price, speed, and whether it’s available at your address.

#1: Kinetic internet

Fast fiber Kinetic internet from Windstream is available to more and more homes in the city, and our expert reviewers love its fast speeds and low prices. You get synchronous upload and download speeds on every plan, and that means you can post videos and livestream your gaming without a hiccup. Starting prices are great, but watch out for price hikes after six months. The included eero internet equipment is top of the line, but you’ll have to pay $10 per month after three months.

Some parts of town may have DSL internet from Kinetic rather than its fast fiber internet. The 100 Mbps plan is priced about right compared to national competitors, but you may not be able to achieve those speeds where you live, especially if you’re located far from the nearest Windstream central office. Learn more about how DSL works.

Read our full Windstream review.

#2: Spectrum internet

Cable internet speeds have gotten faster and faster over the years, and Spectrum is North Carolina’s legacy cable internet provider. It offers plans of up to 1 Gbps, which is lightning-fast, but we also love its slower plans. If you’re on a budget, there’s a plan available for $20 per month that is fast enough for someone living alone or a family that uses the internet only once in awhile. You’ll pay between $25 and $60 in startup costs, and you may have to fork out an additional $5 per month if you want to rent a router from the company.

Read our full Spectrum review.

#3: TDS internet

Like Windstream, TDS offers fiber internet connections to many parts of Mooresville, but whether you can get it depends on your exact address. If you can get fiber to your front door, you can pay for speeds of up to 8 Gbps. That’s fast enough to power a huge call center or host a server farm, and probably more than any home really needs, but we like that TDS is future-proofing its network for a future that may require this kind of bandwidth.

TDS also offers DSL internet in Mooresville. The prices are relatively high and the speeds are slow, so we recommend Spectrum or even a fixed wireless provider if you have the option.

Read our full TDS review.

Mooresville is a very well-connected city, with a range of options for home internet. Nearly 100% of the city can get internet speeds of at least 100 Mbps, and a full 42% can get speeds of a gigabit or more. (1)

A lot of Mooresville is eligible for 5G Ultra Capacity from T-Mobile (2), but some areas are still limited to 4G LTE, which feels a lot slower. If you go with US Cellular, you’ll be on a partner network and subject to 4G LTE roaming data, so we don’t recommend it. (3) Verizon, which offers 5G Nationwide in most areas of town, may be a better fit. (4) The farther south you are, and the closer to Charlotte, the more likely you’ll be to get 5G Ultra Wideband from Verizon.

If you want fiber, you’re most likely to get coverage from Kinetic, but about 1% of homes can connect via our #1 provider in the US, AT&T.

Fixed wireless internet from mobile phone providers is the cheapest internet in Mooresville and throughout a lot of North Carolina. If you bundle with your mobile phone plan, you can get broadband speeds for $30 or less. Due to the nature of fixed wireless internet, your speeds will be less stable throughout the day than they would be with fiber or cable internet, and they will be progressively slower the farther you are from the nearest cell tower.

Almost all providers in the area comply with the Affordable Connective Program (ACP), which offers free or cheap internet to certain families, with students and seniors eligible for federal benefits. If you’re a TDS subscriber on the ACP, there’s a good chance your speeds increased to 200 Mbps (Wi-Fi included) in February of 2023. (5)

Mooresville residents share sentiments of many internet users we’ve seen on social media around the country. Fiber is far superior to cable internet, they say. Many have specific complaints about Spectrum.

TDS Telecom is building out its fiber network in Mooresville, with speeds up to 8 gigs. (6) If it’s not in your neighborhood yet, you can register for email updates.

Public and private partnerships are also working to bring additional high-speed fiber to rural North Carolina. The Carolina Public Press has done a great job digging into the details. There’s also some nice coverage from WCNC Charlotte. Part of that program involves making sure replacement utility poles will work with future broadband needs, according to Infinity TDC, which helps providers build out their broadband networks. (7)

The city bought the network of a cable provider in 2007, but it had failed by 2011 (at least according to a former Republican state representative from North Carolina, who wrote an opinion piece in The Carolina Journal in 2011). (8) The same publication, well known for its conservative viewpoints, doubled down on the issue in 2017, saying multiple municipal broadband projects in North Carolina had failed. (9) That said, high school graduation rates in the area did improve in the years following the municipal broadband effort. (10)

Today, Mooresville taxpayers have gotten out of the internet business, but almost 100% of the city is still eligible for connections of 100 Mbps or faster. That certainly qualifies as broadband, and it’s fast enough for most households.