Sparklight Internet Deals, Plans and Prices
Sparklight Availability
Sparklight is a Cable and Fiber Internet service provider offering service to both residential and business Internet customers. They are part of a family of Internet service brands offered by Cable One, Inc. which includes Cable America, ClearWave, Fidelity Communications, Hargray, Sparklight and ValuNet Fiber Internet. The combined family of brands makes them a Top 25 US Internet provider in terms of service availability.
Sparklight Internet plans are available in 21 states with significant coverage in Idaho; parts of Mississippi and North Dakota; and select communities in 18 other states. You can use our comparison form to check availability at a specific address and view available offers in your area
Sparklight Internet Coverage Map
Sparklight provides Internet service to customers in the listed states, but chances are other Internet providers also offer Internet plans in that area. Use our comparison form to check availability of high speed internet plans and deals for a specific address or view available offers in your area by selecting a location from the options below.
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Sparklight Internet Service Plans
Sparklight offers cable internet plans in 2 different speed tiers ranging from 300 Mbps to 1.0 Gbps and a fiber internet plan with a download speed of 1.0 Gbps.
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Cable Internet performance and the speeds available largely depend on whether the neighbourhood or city-level infrastructure has been upgraded to fiber and whether the provider is using the latest cable modem technology. For areas still using older copper line, speeds may be limited.
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Since Fiber-optic internet services require a fiber line to by run directly to the service location, they are generally only available in major centers where equipment and infrastructure upgrades are more practical.
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Please note that Sparklight may not offer all plans or technologies in all areas. You can use our comparison form to check availability for specific plans and speeds in your location.
Sparklight Internet Consumer Tips
Sparklight offers a self installation kit, along with a cable modem self installation video; which means no additional installation fee. If a service call is ever required it is free unless there is wiring or equipment that requires maintenance or replacement. Service calls require $45 fee, or are included with Service Guard for $5 per month added to your internet plan. There is no charge to make changes to your internet services other than the cost of the service or plan upgrades. If the account is being terminated with Sparklight and the modem, router or other equipment isn't owned; a convenience fee of $45 for returns may be charged. Deposits made prior to the end of the billing cycle are non-refundable. Sparklight also has a 30-day money back guarantee.
Sparklight uses an industry-wide standard called Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR) for customer usage metering. IPDR counts traffic measurements on a per-subscriber basis. To ensure accuracy, Sparklight gets audited by NetForecast regularly through doing different types of reference tests and regularly exceeds industry standards. Based on the internet plan, they then determines if users are above or below their limit with data usage allocation on data plans with a limit. Customers are then charged taxes and prices accordingly, or data rolls over to the following month. For 100GB of data it is $10, and stays at that price for each additional 100 GB added, up to $50. Alternatively, an unlimited data plan can be added to the billing cycle for the price of $40/mo. Customers who add the unlimited data options receive regular speeds until they use hit 5TB in data after which the tuner will automatically slow down downloads to a 10 Mbps download speed, and 1 Mbps upload speed.
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