Internet providers in Arkansas

12 of the operators we cover report service somewhere in Arkansas, of which 6 sell fiber. Below is how much of the state each one reaches, how Arkansas compares on choice, and what that means for a specific address.

How much choice does Arkansas actually have?

Arkansas ranks 29 of 52 for wired internet choice, worse than most states. 18.3% of homes here have at most one wired company able to serve them, against 15.7% nationally.

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Measure	Arkansas	United States
Residential locations	1,310,979	114,550,235
At most one wireline company in the block	18.3%	15.7%
In a block with no wired company at all	1.7%	1.5%
In a block where nobody reports fiber	23.6%	27.9%
In a block with exactly one fiber company	53.8%	52.2%
In a block with two or more wired companies, none of them fiber	14.5%	17.4%

Arkansas has less wireline choice than the country as a whole. More of the state sits in blocks where a single company is the only wired option. These are floors rather than estimates, for reasons we set out in the national study. In Arkansas that third row is 22,116 residential locations with no wired option reported by anybody: not fiber, not cable, not copper.

Having a choice is not the same as having a good one. 1,070,661 Arkansas locations sit in a block with two or more wired companies. Of those, 82.3% have at least one company offering fiber, and 0.1% have nothing but copper between all of the companies reaching them. The last row of the table is the same fact counted against the whole state rather than against the households it applies to.

Two providers compared in Arkansas

Both operators in each pair report service somewhere in Arkansas, so these are choices a reader here might actually face:

Providers serving Arkansas

Share of Arkansas residential locations each operator reports it can reach. A low percentage is not a bad network. It usually means a network concentrated in a few towns.

Provider	Technology	Share of Arkansas covered
T-Mobile Home Internet	Fixed Wireless	60.9%
Verizon Fios	Mixed *	58.9%
AT&T Fiber	Mixed *	55.7%
Cox	Cable	18.8%
Xfinity	Cable	16.3%
Brightspeed	Mixed *	15.1%
Optimum	Mixed *	13.3%
Kinetic	Mixed *	6.3%
Sparklight	Cable	6.0%
Vyve Broadband	Cable	1.6%
Dobson Fiber	Fiber	1.2%
Ripple Fiber	Fiber	0.8%

* This operator reports several technologies to the FCC nationally, and the federal data does not break that down by state, so we cannot tell you which one reaches a specific address in Arkansas. Read the percentage as the whole company, not the brand. A national carrier files its fiber, its cable, its copper and its fixed wireless under one identifier. We mark a technology plainly only when at least 80% of what that operator reports nationally sits on it, or when its entire filing sits on one technology.

Covers the 79 operators we have mapped from FCC holding-company names to the brand people actually buy. Smaller operators that file under a name we have not yet matched are not listed here, so a local provider missing from this table may still serve you, because the address check below reads the raw filing and will show it.

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What speeds are available across Arkansas

Share of Arkansas homes where at least one provider reports offering that speed on that technology. This is genuine state level data, the level the FCC actually publishes it at.

Technology	25/3 Mbps	100/20 Mbps	250/25 Mbps	1 Gbps / 100 Mbps
Fiber	62%	62%	62%	61%
Cable	63%	62%	61%	24%
Fixed wireless	76%	47%	1%	0%
Any technology	100%	100%	100%	72%

Reading this page honestly

A statewide percentage tells you about Arkansas. It does not tell you about your street. Fiber in particular was built out block by block, and nationally up to one in nine residential locations sits in a block where fiber exists and still does not reach the building, so a provider showing strong statewide coverage here can still tell you no.

Providers report their own coverage to the FCC and the data is known to overstate it. Where a provider says it cannot serve you, it is right and the filing is wrong.