Internet competition in every Wyoming county
23 counties, 251,272 residential locations, counted block by block from the FCC's own filing. No county in Wyoming is anywhere near a wired monopoly: not one reaches 99.5% for at most one wired company. The pressure here is entirely in the fiber column, and 41.1% of the state sits in a block where nobody reports fiber at all. The one with the best has none in more than half of them.
The finding: the competition ranking is not what is wrong here
Our national study ranks Wyoming 46 of 52 for wired competition: 28.2% 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.
Not one Wyoming county reaches 99.5% for at most one wired company. On the measure the national ranking is built from, this state has no monopoly geography at all, and the ranking of 46 of 52 is driven by the spread across it rather than by any one place.
That makes the second column the one to read. 41.1% of Wyoming sits in a census block where nobody reports fiber, and the table below shows which counties carry it. A county can have two or three wired companies and still have no fiber among them, which is exactly what the competition ranking cannot see.
Sweetwater County has the best competition figure in the state at 8.2%, and 78.1% of its locations are in a block where nobody reports fiber at all. Laramie County, the largest by locations, is 18.1% and 28.2%.
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Every Wyoming 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crook County | 3,717 | 96.6% | 58.6% | 31.7% | RT Communications Inc. (64%) |
| Big Horn County | 5,721 | 71.5% | 25.7% | 62.2% | TCT Internet (99%) |
| Lincoln County | 11,291 | 68.9% | 11.6% | 83.8% | Silver Star Communications (76%) |
| Sublette County | 5,454 | 61.4% | 59.0% | 89.8% | Quantum Fiber (78%) |
| Carbon County | 7,875 | 52.7% | 80.3% | 22.6% | Quantum Fiber (49%) |
| Uinta County | 8,917 | 49.5% | 77.3% | 100.0% | Quantum Fiber (56%) |
| Weston County | 3,327 | 46.9% | 39.1% | 48.6% | Dubois Telephone Exchange Inc. (61%) |
| Fremont County | 17,428 | 42.0% | 73.8% | 20.0% | Quantum Fiber (68%) |
| Goshen County | 6,105 | 40.5% | 50.9% | 87.2% | Vyve Broadband (63%) |
| Platte County | 4,835 | 35.7% | 70.8% | 25.2% | Quantum Fiber (76%) |
| Johnson County | 4,146 | 33.6% | 73.7% | 17.7% | Quantum Fiber (79%) |
| Park County | 13,923 | 29.9% | 27.5% | 64.6% | Quantum Fiber (81%) |
| Niobrara County | 1,325 | 29.3% | 26.5% | 57.7% | Quantum Fiber (83%) |
| Washakie County | 3,740 | 28.9% | 9.0% | 86.9% | Dubois Telephone Exchange Inc. (83%) |
| Hot Springs County | 2,435 | 24.9% | 19.3% | 74.1% | Dubois Telephone Exchange Inc. (76%) |
| Converse County | 6,129 | 20.4% | 57.8% | 36.8% | Quantum Fiber (85%) |
| Albany County | 13,255 | 18.3% | 28.0% | 88.2% | Quantum Fiber (92%) |
| Laramie County | 39,758 | 18.1% | 28.2% | 64.2% | Quantum Fiber (89%) |
| Natrona County | 33,376 | 15.5% | 27.0% | 65.2% | Spectrum (87%) |
| Campbell County | 17,699 | 13.5% | 37.5% | 47.1% | Quantum Fiber (91%) |
| Sheridan County | 14,367 | 13.1% | 26.8% | 60.3% | Quantum Fiber (90%) |
| Teton County | 9,152 | 12.3% | 19.1% | 49.1% | Quantum Fiber (93%) |
| Sweetwater County | 17,297 | 8.2% | 78.1% | 95.6% | Quantum Fiber (94%) |
The column adds up. These 23 rows sum to 251,272 residential locations, and to 28.2% and 41.1%, which are the figures we publish for Wyoming 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 Wyoming: 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
This page and its table are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Republish it, adapt it, use it commercially, in a newspaper or on a government page, provided you credit WhereFiber and link to this page. The underlying counts are facts from a public federal dataset and nobody can own them; the license covers this write-up and the arrangement of this table.
How to cite this
Horvath, F. (2026). Internet competition in every Wyoming county: wireline provider counts by census block. WhereFiber. Retrieved from https://wherefiber.com/research/wyoming-counties/
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