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What is the best internet provider in Missouri City?

Xfinity is the best internet service provider in Missouri City, Texas, according to our CNET experts. Xfinity offers the widest broadband availability in this Texas town, serving over 99% of households, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Plus, this cable giant comes with low prices, speeds up to 2 gigabits and free equipment on most plans. Other ISPs, such as T-Mobile Home Internet, Frontier Fiber and AT&T, also serve select Missouri City households, but you'll have to input your address on the right to see which providers serve your location.

We've also found the fastest and cheapest options for internet in Missouri City, with Xfinity and Astound Broadband competing for the lowest introductory prices. Xfinity Connect costs $20 per month for download speeds up to 150 megabits per second, while Astound's service costs the same but offers speeds reaching 300Mbps. For speed, check out Frontier Fiber or AT&T Fiber, which offer 5 gigabits -- or 5,000Mbps -- of symmetrical speed for $155 and $245, respectively.

CNET considers speeds, pricing, customer service and overall value to recommend the best internet service in Missouri City across several categories. Our evaluation includes referencing a proprietary database built over years of reviewing internet services. We validate that against provider information by spot-checking local addresses for service availability. We also do a close read of providers' terms and conditions and, when needed, will call ISPs to verify the details.

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Despite our efforts to find the most recent and accurate information, our process has some limitations you should know about. Pricing and speed data are variable: Certain addresses may qualify for different service tiers, and monthly costs may vary, even within a city. The best way to identify your particular options is to plug your address into a provider's website.

Also, the prices, speed and other information listed above and in the provider cards below may differ from what we found in our research. The cards display the full range of a provider's pricing and speed across the US, according to our database of plan information provided directly by ISPs. At the same time, the text is specific to what's available in Missouri City. The prices referenced within this article's text come from our research and include applicable discounts for setting up automatic payments each month -- a standard industry offering. Discounts and promotions might also be available for signing a term contract or bundling multiple services.

To learn more about how we review internet providers, visit our full methodology page.

Best internet in Missouri City, Texas, in 2024

Although AT&T does offer a small fiber network in Missouri City, Frontier Fiber covers more households within city limits. Frontier Fiber has six plans: 200Mbps for $30, 500Mbps for $30, 1,000Mbps for $50, 2,000Mbps for $70, 5,000Mbps for $100 and 7,000Mbps for $200. Unlimited data and equipment are included, and no pesky contracts are required.

Source: CNET analysis of provider data.

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Source: CNET analysis of provider data.

How to find internet deals and promotions in Missouri City

The best internet deals and top promotions in Missouri City depend on what discounts are available during that period. Most deals are short-lived, but we look frequently for the latest offers.

Missouri City internet providers, such as Xfinity and Astound Broadband, may offer lower introductory pricing or streaming add-ons for a limited time. Others, such as Frontier, AT&T and Verizon, run the same standard pricing year-round.

For a more extensive list of promos, check out our guide on the best internet deals.

Source: CNET analysis of provider data.

What’s a good internet speed?

Most internet connection plans can now handle basic productivity and communication tasks. If you're looking for an internet plan that can accommodate videoconferencing, streaming video or gaming, you'll have a better experience with a more robust connection. Here's an overview of the recommended minimum download speeds for various applications, according to the FCC. Note that these are only guidelines and that internet speed, service and performance vary by connection type, provider and address.

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For more information, refer to our guide on how much internet speed you really need.

How CNET chose the best internet providers in Missouri City

Internet service providers are numerous and regional. Unlike the latest smartphone, laptop, router or kitchen tool, it’s impractical to personally test every ISP in a given city. What’s our approach? We start by researching the pricing, availability and speed information, drawing on our own historical ISP data, the provider sites and mapping information from the Federal Communications Commission at FCC.gov.

It doesn’t end there: We go to the FCC’s website to check our data and ensure we consider every ISP that provides service in an area. We also input local addresses on provider websites to find specific options for residents. We look at sources, including the American Customer Satisfaction Index and J.D. Power, to evaluate how happy customers are with an ISP’s service. ISP plans and prices are subject to frequent changes; all information provided is accurate as of publication.

Once we have this localized information, we ask three main questions:

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While the answer to those questions is often layered and complex, the providers who come closest to “yes” on all three are the ones we recommend. When selecting the cheapest internet service, we look for the plans with the lowest monthly fee, although we also factor in things like price increases, equipment fees and contracts. Choosing the fastest internet service is relatively straightforward. We look at advertised upload and download speeds and also consider real-world speed data from sources like Ookla and FCC reports. (Disclaimer: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)

To explore our process in more depth, visit our how we test ISPs page.

Internet providers in Missouri City FAQs

With wide serviceability and cheap pricing for residential broadband, Xfinity is our pick for internet in Missouri City. Most of Xfinity's plans also have no data caps, contracts or equipment fees.

According to FCC data, fiber connectivity is available to over 79% of Missouri City residents, with AT&T Fiber and Frontier Fiber being the two largest fiber providers in the area.

Xfinity and Astound Broadband tie for the cheapest plan in Missouri City. Both offer a $20-per-month connection, but Xfinity's 150Mbps doesn't compare to Astound's 300Mbps service.

Frontier Fiber offers speeds up to 7 gigabits in Missouri City for $200 monthly.

By CLAIRE SAVAGE

The Associated Press

FRESNO, Texas The only moment TiAnna Yeldell has to herself is when she’s sleeping, and that doesn’t happen much.

The 44-year-old single mom of three works 80-hour weeks to provide for her children, ages 8, 14, and 18. During the day, she is a driver for Pizza Hut, where she earns $9.50 an hour before tips. At night, she cleans trains for Houston’s Metro system, where she earns about $17 an hour.

The times that she pulls both shifts, Yeldell sleeps for just two to three hours before getting her kids up and ready for school. Then she does it all over again.

Yeldell is among the millions of fast food workers across the U.S. scraping to get by. About two-thirds of them are women, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and many are supporting their families on minimum wages set at the federal government’s floor of $7.25 an hour. Fast food workers are disproportionately Hispanic, making up 24.6% of the industry’s workforce compared with 18.8% of the overall workforce. And more than half of all U.S. fast food workers are 20 or older.

President Donald Trump, who manned the fry station at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania while on the campaign trail last year, has acknowledged that the federal minimum wage is “very low” and he would consider raising it, but that doing so would be “complicated.”

Meanwhile, a growing number of states have pushed to increase their minimum wage in the face of record-high inflation in recent years. For example, California — which has one of the highest costs of living in the country — in April raised wages for fast food workers specifically, to $20 an hour from $16 an hour. By the end of this year, 23 states and 65 cities and counties will raise their minimum wage floors, according to a December 2024 National Employment Law Project report that combed through legislation across the country.

But not Texas, where Yeldell and her family live. It is one of 20 states at the $7.25 federal minimum wage floor and that rate hasn’t budged since 2009. Democratic lawmakers in Texas have repeatedly proposed legislation to raise the minimum wage in the state to no avail. Preemption laws, which exist in Texas and many other states, block cities and counties from adopting their own minimum wage laws, presenting another barrier.

Today, a living wage for one adult raising three children in the Houston metro area is $57.65 an hour, according to MIT’s Living Wage Calculator. For Yeldell, it’s not possible to get by on her fast food job alone, which is why she must work a second job.

Still wearing her visor and gray “No One Out Pizzas The Hut” shirt, she slumps sideways after a recent work shift. She only takes a moment to rest before changing into Looney Tunes sweatpants and a yellow T-shirt, scooping fajitas onto plates for the kids’ dinner, and packing up the leftovers.

“I don’t want to work two jobs — I’m really tired. But I have to, because the jobs don’t pay enough,” Yeldell said. “I would not be able to provide a roof over my kids’ head.”

The Associated Press reached out to Pizza Hut, as well as its parent company, Yum Brands, for comment on wages for fast food workers but did not hear back.

Wages are just one of many issues fast food workers face. Unpredictable hours, limited access to paid sick leave, and challenging customer interactions all shape their experiences, said Daniel Schneider, co-director and co-founder of the Shift Project, a joint Harvard and University of California, San Francisco project researching the conditions of service sector work.

Wage theft and other law violations are also common in the industry, added labor scholar David Madland, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

“The fast food industry is notorious for low pay and poor working conditions,” Madland said. “It’s seen as the almost the sort of typical throwaway job that policy has cared very little about.”

Yeldell’s Pizza Hut deliveries sometimes go until 11 p.m. She carries a knife in her pocket, as well as a flashlight, to keep her safe.

Despite the challenges, Yeldell maintains a positive outlook about her job, which she started about a year and a half ago as a delivery driver and has since learned to do “pretty much everything” at her Fresno, Texas store.

“Pizza Hut is a really easy job and the job is only hard if you make it hard,” she said. “And I’m a fast learner, so it doesn’t bother me.”

Contrast Texas to California, which now has the highest fast food minimum wage of any state since lawmakers passed a minimum $20 hourly wage for those workers.

Angelica Hernandez, 51, who has worked at various McDonald’s restaurants for 20 years, and now works for a Monterey Park location in Los Angeles County, said the raise helped her pay rent and bills on time, avoid late fees, and buy “a bit more” at the grocery store. But much of the increase was swallowed by a recent $200 rent hike.

“We need a little more to be able to save money and buy clothes without being tight every two weeks or have to use credit,” she said.

Critics of the new law say continuing to increase minimum wage is not the answer, arguing that it has raised prices and reduced job opportunities for young people, pinching franchisees in an industry with already-slim margins.

“When you see a spike in operating costs pretty dramatically in a short period of time, it creates challenges,” said Jot Condie, president and CEO of the California Restaurant Association, which opposed the law. He added that franchisees, who are essentially small business owners, are most harmed.

But a September report from University of California, Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment called the effects of the higher wages “benign,” and found that the policy did not affect employment adversely and increased prices about 3.7%, or about 15 cents on a $4 hamburger.

For Yeldell, increasing the minimum wage in Texas “would be more fair.”

”If other states could change, y’all can change too,” she said.

On a chilly Friday morning at 7 a.m., Yeldell walks her youngest to the bus stop, then drives her daughter across town to have her senior pictures done before her Pizza Hut shift starts. At the photography studio, she and her daughter pose for a selfie against a backdrop that reads “Class of ’25.” Yeldell wears a sleek, royal blue dress that reads “Faith” in white cursive text, her daughter in a black cap and gown.

“Being a mother, I do what I’m supposed to do for my kids,” she said.

But for all her hard work, Yeldell says the family has little to no savings. On good months, she says she has about $100 left over. Often, she has nothing.

“At the end of the day, I’ve worked all these hours and I really have nothing to show for it, but just paying some bills,” she said.

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