Residential internet
Made for Alabama households. Built by people who answer their own phone.
All-in pricing. No contracts. In Bibb, Chilton, and Choctaw counties.
Three kinds of households. One network designed for all of them.
The rural household
DSL tops out at 8 megs and goes down with every storm. Satellite lag breaks video calls. The cell hotspot throttles after twenty gigs.
We mount a small antenna on your roof and link it to the nearest Lightwave tower. Some of our radios punch right through the tree canopy. Others want a cleaner shot. Either way, no buried lines, no aerial drop to come down with the pines.
Recommended Essential or PlusWorking from home
Your job depends on a green light next to your name. The incumbents oversold their cable and the speeds collapse at five o'clock when everyone gets home.
We run LibreQOS on every tower. It shapes traffic in real time and kills bufferbloat, so your call stays smooth even when the kids are pulling down a game in the next room. Add a static IP if your job needs one.
Recommended PlusThe whole circus
Streaming 4K on the den TV. Twitch on the gaming PC. Phones updating in the background. Someone always shouting about the WiFi.
Red carpet treatment. We deliver the fastest connection our network can run to your address. Whole-home mesh included, set up by the same crew that installs the radio.
Recommended MAXSpeeds up to a gigabit, based on what your address can run. Unlimited data on every plan. No contracts on any of them. The price you sign at is the price you pay.
Affordable internet for fixed-income, low-income, and senior households.
Solid internet for everyday stuff. Browsing, email, streaming on one or two screens.
Built for busy households. Remote work, HD streaming, kids online, all happening at once.
Everything, all at once. 4K on three TVs, gaming, Zoom calls. The whole circus.
*Estimated capacity. Actual speeds depend on connection type. Symmetric speeds are available on microcell connections with line-of-sight to the tower. FCC Broadband Facts available for each plan.
Six things every Alabama Lightwave household gets. The same six, every month, on every plan.
The price you sign up at is what you pay. Taxes and fees included. Forever.
No caps. No throttling. Use the internet you paid for.
Month to month. People stay because we earn it.
Call (205) 809-9051. No phone trees. No overseas scripts. Just a real person.
What you do online is your business. We don't track it, sell it, or share it.
Tower-side battery backup, redundant backhaul, local crews.
We don't ship out a national contractor with a clipboard. The person on your ladder lives down the road.
Standard install is free. We're in and out in under two hours for most addresses. A small antenna goes on your roof or eave, one cable runs inside, and your WiFi is up before we leave. If a mesh node makes sense in the back bedroom, we'll set it up too.
If something goes sideways later, call (205) 809-9051. An American answers, usually the same crew that put it in.
Alabama, not Boston
Fiber was built for cities laid out on a grid. Trenched into a sidewalk, tied to a pole. It works fine in Boston. Down here, the math doesn't add up. Cletus is out there with a shovel. Leroy didn't call 811. Tornado season takes down the aerial drops. Every spring another pine pulls a line out of a tree.
We don't fight any of that. Our signal goes through the air, tower to home. Some radios punch right through the tree canopy. Others want a cleaner shot to the tower. Either way, no buried lines, no aerial drop, no copper for thieves, no day-long outage because somebody snagged a duct.
And we route Alabama-first. We peer at MGMIX, our state's own internet exchange in Montgomery. Your packets touch Alabama soil before they touch Atlanta's, on the same fabric as Meta, Hurricane Electric, and the State of Alabama.
Buying internet from Alabama Lightwave is an investment in local resiliency.
Competitive speed. None of fiber's drawbacks.
Lightwave vs. fiber providersEssential workers
Firefighters, cops, paramedics, dispatchers, soldiers, teachers, nurses. Every essential worker, on every plan, gets a discount every month. No expiration.
No. Every Alabama Lightwave plan is month to month. Cancel any time, for any reason. We earn the next month every month.
Really unlimited. No caps, no throttling, no overage fees, no fine print waiting in month thirteen. Use what you signed up for.
Yes. Satellite has to bounce your signal to space and back, which adds 600 to 700 milliseconds of latency on a good day. Our tower link is line-of-sight to a tower a few miles away, so your latency stays in the 10 to 30 millisecond range. Video calls, gaming, and remote desktops all work the way they're supposed to.
It's what we built it for. Lightwave Plus is the right starting tier for most remote workers. We can add a static IP if your employer's VPN requires one.
Yes. We peer at MGMIX in Montgomery, which sits on the same fabric as Hurricane Electric and most major game backbones, so your packets get where they're going in one short hop. Real customers have clocked ping under 20 milliseconds to popular game servers.
Standard install is free and usually takes under two hours. We mount a small antenna on your roof or eave, run a single cable inside, and set up your WiFi. Most homes are online the same day the technician arrives.
Move up or move down any month. No fees. Most customers start on Essential or Plus, and a fair number end up on MAX once they realize how much the family is actually using.
Use the availability check. Type your address. If we serve it, you'll see what speeds are available there. If we don't yet, we'll add you to the list and let you know when a tower goes live nearby.
Check your address. If we cover you, we'll have you online in under a week. If we don't yet, we'll let you know. And we'll put you on the list.
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