Our team considers speeds, pricing, customer service and overall value to recommend the best internet service in Scottsdale across a variety of categories. True fiber internet offers symmetrical upload and download speeds. Cox refers to some area plans as “fiber,” but with much lower upload speeds than download speeds, they're a lesser variant that's closer to a cable connection. That has stunted the fiber rollout in Scottsdale. In 2015, Scottsdale’s city council delayed a decision to allow Google Fiber to open up shop in the area after Cox filed a lawsuit against the city of Tempe over a similar deal.

That noted, Cox is unpopular with some residents. Otherwise, you're best off with Cox, which offers cable internet to just about every address in the area. If your household can get a fiber connection from CenturyLink (now known as Quantum Fiber), that's a slam dunk. There's a clear decision tree when it comes to picking an internet provider in Scottsdale.