Internet providers in Ohio

20 of the operators we cover report service somewhere in Ohio, of which 10 sell fiber. Below is how much of the state each one reaches, how Ohio compares on choice, and what that means for a specific address.

How much choice does Ohio actually have?

Ohio ranks 15 of 52 for wired internet choice, better than most states. 10.8% of homes here have at most one wired company able to serve them, against 15.7% nationally.

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Measure	Ohio	United States
Residential locations	4,481,610	114,550,235
At most one wireline company in the block	10.8%	15.7%
In a block with no wired company at all	1.1%	1.5%
In a block where nobody reports fiber	31.1%	27.9%
In a block with exactly one fiber company	52.0%	52.2%
In a block with two or more wired companies, none of them fiber	22.8%	17.4%

Ohio has more wireline choice than the country as a whole, because a smaller share of the state is served by a single wired company. These are floors rather than estimates, for reasons we set out in the national study. In Ohio that third row is 51,459 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. 3,998,513 Ohio locations sit in a block with two or more wired companies. Of those, 74.4% 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 Ohio

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

Providers serving Ohio

Share of Ohio 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 Ohio covered
Spectrum	Cable	77.3%
T-Mobile Home Internet	Fixed Wireless	72.8%
AT&T Fiber	Mixed *	71.4%
Verizon Fios	Mixed *	63.1%
Breezeline	Cable	15.4%
altafiber	Fiber	14.7%
Brightspeed	Mixed *	9.6%
Frontier Fiber	Mixed *	7.1%
Buckeye Broadband	Mixed *	4.7%
Kinetic	Mixed *	3.9%
Omni Fiber	Fiber	3.0%
Armstrong	Mixed *	2.8%
Point Broadband	Mixed *	2.4%
Metronet	Fiber	2.2%
Cox	Cable	2.0%
Xfinity	Cable	1.7%
Optimum	Mixed *	0.5%
Zito Media	Mixed *	0.1%
TDS Telecom	Mixed *	0.1%
Mediacom	Cable	Under 0.1%

* 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 Ohio. 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 Ohio

Share of Ohio 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	52%	52%	51%	51%
Cable	85%	85%	80%	19%
Fixed wireless	89%	60%	13%	3%
Any technology	100%	100%	100%	58%

Cities in Ohio

Reading this page honestly

A statewide percentage tells you about Ohio. 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.