Internet competition in every Oklahoma county
77 counties, 1,632,515 residential locations, counted block by block from the FCC's own filing. The counties with the worst competition scores in Oklahoma are single-cooperative territory, and unlike North Dakota that does not mean they are fibered: 1 of 4 have no fiber gap at all. The one with the best competition score still has no fiber in 17.4% of it.
The finding: the competition score and the fiber gap are different problems here
Our national study ranks Oklahoma 40 of 52 for wired competition: 23.3% of residential locations sit in a census block where at most one wired company reports service. The county view is where you find out what that number is actually made of, and in this state the answer is not the one North Dakota gave.
4 Oklahoma counties score 99.5% or higher, holding 9,055 residential locations. 1 of those 4 have no locations at all in a block without fiber, and gigabit availability across them runs 3.2% to 89.4%.
The last column of the table below names the operator reaching the widest share of each. Across that group they are: Dobson Fiber, Panhandle Telephone, Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc. In North Dakota that column was rural cooperatives that had built fiber to everybody in their own territory, which is why the monopoly score there measures territory rather than deprivation. It does not read that way here: only 1 of the 4 are without a fiber gap, and gigabit availability across them starts at 3.2%. Both things the score can mean are present in Oklahoma, and the state figure cannot tell them apart. That is the argument for reading this table rather than the ranking.
So the competition figure here is measuring both, and the counties it is worth acting on are the ones low on the fiber column rather than high on the monopoly column. A block with one company is a monopoly by any definition, and a resident there has no alternative and no competitive pressure on price. Both things are true at once, and a number that cannot tell them apart should say so rather than be quietly averaged into a national ranking.
It inverts in the cities, which is the other half of the point. Tulsa County has the best competition figure in the state at 3.1%, and 17.4% of its locations are in a block where nobody reports fiber at all. Oklahoma County, the largest by locations, is 4.8% and 15.1%.
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Every Oklahoma county
Sorted by the share of residential locations in a block with at most one wired company, worst first. The first three columns are computed here from the block level filing. Gigabit is the FCC's own county figure, which is the finest grain they publish speed at.
| County | Residential locations | At most one wired company | No fiber in the block | Gigabit available | Widest reaching wired operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver County | 2,936 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 85.9% | Panhandle Telephone (100%) |
| Harmon County | 1,865 | 100.0% | 93.5% | 3.2% | Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (94%) |
| Cimarron County | 1,720 | 100.0% | 0.1% | 89.4% | Panhandle Telephone (100%) |
| Roger Mills County | 2,534 | 99.9% | 78.0% | 21.7% | Dobson Fiber (81%) |
| Ellis County | 2,916 | 99.3% | 37.6% | 53.6% | Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (99%) |
| Dewey County | 3,376 | 99.0% | 42.7% | 51.0% | Dobson Fiber (56%) |
| Harper County | 2,400 | 98.4% | 44.5% | 51.6% | Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (51%) |
| Blaine County | 6,338 | 97.2% | 18.0% | 80.0% | Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (93%) |
| Kingfisher County | 8,114 | 95.4% | 6.7% | 90.1% | Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (96%) |
| Grant County | 3,446 | 87.1% | 42.4% | 52.0% | Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (65%) |
| Alfalfa County | 3,730 | 80.8% | 27.5% | 68.5% | KanOkla Communications (51%) |
| McCurtain County | 17,423 | 75.9% | 2.4% | 81.1% | Pine Telephone Company (87%) |
| Johnston County | 4,447 | 72.3% | 100.0% | 0.0% | Vyve Broadband (37%) |
| Pawnee County | 7,094 | 71.6% | 37.7% | 45.0% | Cross Telephone Company, LLC (61%) |
| Cotton County | 3,005 | 68.2% | 49.2% | 78.9% | Southern Plains Cable, LLC (44%) |
| Nowata County | 4,748 | 66.5% | 96.3% | 0.1% | Sparklight (45%) |
| Major County | 4,170 | 66.2% | 10.7% | 77.7% | Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (95%) |
| Atoka County | 4,365 | 63.7% | 47.0% | 31.7% | Vyve Broadband (38%) |
| Caddo County | 14,009 | 63.3% | 17.0% | 74.0% | PHOENIX COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS (29%) |
| Pontotoc County | 15,853 | 62.0% | 98.8% | 0.5% | Sparklight (78%) |
| Marshall County | 8,814 | 60.3% | 66.6% | 24.0% | AT&T Internet (40%) |
| Washita County | 6,826 | 60.0% | 47.5% | 48.4% | Dobson Fiber (38%) |
| Coal County | 2,293 | 59.5% | 100.0% | 0.0% | Vyve Broadband (59%) |
| Woods County | 5,090 | 59.2% | 87.3% | 12.7% | Optimum (53%) |
| Pushmataha County | 6,064 | 58.5% | 23.5% | 52.6% | Pine Telephone Company (66%) |
| Jefferson County | 3,166 | 54.4% | 38.0% | 33.8% | AT&T Internet (51%) |
| Texas County | 9,099 | 51.6% | 0.0% | 99.3% | Panhandle Telephone (99%) |
| Hughes County | 6,171 | 51.5% | 71.3% | 21.5% | AT&T Internet (44%) |
| Okfuskee County | 5,640 | 48.7% | 5.3% | 84.0% | ecoLink (56%) |
| Latimer County | 4,360 | 48.2% | 31.2% | 34.1% | PHOENIX COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS (69%) |
| Noble County | 5,722 | 47.6% | 27.4% | 66.5% | Optimum (47%) |
| Murray County | 7,348 | 47.5% | 29.1% | 52.2% | Chickasaw Telephone Company (82%) |
| Craig County | 6,400 | 47.0% | 49.9% | 28.4% | Sparklight (49%) |
| Ottawa County | 14,234 | 46.7% | 53.3% | 40.6% | Sparklight (56%) |
| Cherokee County | 21,969 | 44.9% | 1.3% | 78.5% | Lake Region Technology & Communications LLC (76%) |
| Pittsburg County | 22,803 | 44.7% | 50.7% | 41.8% | Vyve Broadband (60%) |
| Garvin County | 11,524 | 44.1% | 77.7% | 15.9% | Optimum (55%) |
| Tillman County | 5,083 | 44.1% | 16.7% | 80.1% | Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (96%) |
| Delaware County | 26,709 | 44.0% | 16.1% | 70.2% | BOLT Fiber (69%) |
| Kiowa County | 6,536 | 42.5% | 45.3% | 56.2% | Kinetic (35%) |
| Choctaw County | 5,036 | 42.4% | 36.3% | 27.7% | Optimum (56%) |
| Sequoyah County | 19,014 | 42.0% | 10.5% | 80.2% | Cookson Hills Connect, LLC (73%) |
| Love County | 2,018 | 42.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | Sparklight (69%) |
| Seminole County | 10,896 | 40.3% | 19.7% | 65.7% | CVEC Fiber, LLC (76%) |
| Mayes County | 18,942 | 39.9% | 36.3% | 49.6% | Vyve Broadband (48%) |
| Le Flore County | 17,593 | 38.8% | 22.5% | 52.2% | Kinetic (49%) |
| Woodward County | 10,117 | 36.7% | 11.1% | 85.9% | Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (94%) |
| Stephens County | 19,633 | 35.9% | 27.4% | 62.7% | Sparklight (69%) |
| McIntosh County | 13,932 | 35.5% | 7.9% | 82.2% | ecoLink (69%) |
| Osage County | 20,430 | 35.0% | 39.7% | 29.7% | Cox (47%) |
| Beckham County | 11,063 | 34.6% | 23.5% | 69.9% | Dobson Fiber (77%) |
| Bryan County | 17,735 | 34.5% | 56.9% | 29.8% | Vyve Broadband (72%) |
| Adair County | 8,948 | 34.2% | 0.0% | 99.8% | OzarksGo (99%) |
| Creek County | 31,694 | 33.0% | 29.7% | 64.2% | AT&T Internet (49%) |
| Greer County | 3,334 | 32.2% | 20.1% | 68.0% | Dobson Fiber (72%) |
| Grady County | 25,435 | 30.2% | 10.5% | 86.8% | OEC Fiber (41%) |
| Logan County | 21,817 | 29.9% | 17.9% | 67.7% | Cox (70%) |
| Lincoln County | 16,861 | 29.9% | 3.9% | 75.2% | CVEC Fiber, LLC (39%) |
| Jackson County | 12,432 | 28.8% | 26.8% | 83.8% | Sparklight (73%) |
| Custer County | 12,700 | 27.9% | 13.4% | 83.3% | Dobson Fiber (68%) |
| Okmulgee County | 17,614 | 26.8% | 17.1% | 74.4% | Optimum (56%) |
| Carter County | 20,041 | 25.4% | 41.3% | 44.5% | Sparklight (77%) |
| Washington County | 23,216 | 24.9% | 22.0% | 66.2% | Sparklight (77%) |
| Kay County | 21,629 | 24.6% | 20.6% | 73.6% | Sparklight (63%) |
| Garfield County | 27,234 | 23.5% | 13.2% | 82.4% | Optimum (79%) |
| Rogers County | 32,549 | 22.0% | 23.4% | 48.0% | Cox (75%) |
| Haskell County | 6,436 | 21.8% | 10.3% | 84.2% | Cookson Hills Connect, LLC (78%) |
| Payne County | 29,565 | 20.4% | 7.0% | 79.7% | Optimum (73%) |
| Muskogee County | 30,063 | 16.9% | 6.2% | 87.1% | Optimum (59%) |
| Comanche County | 45,757 | 14.0% | 7.1% | 85.0% | Sparklight (68%) |
| Pottawatomie County | 30,843 | 11.5% | 9.1% | 78.2% | Vyve Broadband (75%) |
| McClain County | 19,626 | 10.8% | 8.4% | 84.8% | OEC Fiber (87%) |
| Wagoner County | 35,084 | 10.1% | 20.7% | 74.8% | Kinetic (88%) |
| Canadian County | 63,328 | 9.8% | 11.9% | 81.4% | Cox (92%) |
| Cleveland County | 105,132 | 7.8% | 5.0% | 90.2% | Cox (82%) |
| Oklahoma County | 291,582 | 4.8% | 15.1% | 80.1% | Cox (97%) |
| Tulsa County | 232,846 | 3.1% | 17.4% | 81.4% | Cox (98%) |
The column adds up. These 77 rows sum to 1,632,515 residential locations, and to 23.3% and 20.4%, which are the figures we publish for Oklahoma on the national study. The county rows and the state row are computed from the same blocks with the same definitions, so they cannot disagree. The build refuses to ship this page if they ever do.
Method, and what these numbers cannot tell you
Source: the FCC Broadband Data Collection, filing period D25, published July 21, 2026, reflecting service as of . Competition figures are computed across every census block in Oklahoma: a location counts toward the first figure when at most one company reports wireline service, meaning fiber, cable or copper, in its block. Fixed wireless and satellite are excluded from that count and stated separately elsewhere on this site.
It is a floor, not an estimate. Coverage is self reported by providers and is known to overstate, so every overstatement moves a location out of the at-most-one group and never into it. The real figure is this one or worse.
Reporting service in a block is not the same as being able to connect a given house. A company that reaches one address on a street counts for the whole block, which is why the fiber gap column can look better than any resident's experience.
The last column is reach, not market share. It names the wired operator reporting service across the largest share of the county's locations, with that share in brackets. It says nothing about how many people buy from them.
License
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How to cite this
Horvath, F. (2026). Internet competition in every Oklahoma county: wireline provider counts by census block. WhereFiber. Retrieved from https://wherefiber.com/research/oklahoma-counties/
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Related
- The national block level competition study, all 52 states and territories ranked
- Who can actually get gigabit internet in America, where Oklahoma ranks near the top
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