Internet Providers in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Best Internet Providers in Tulsa, OK

Tulsa’s best home internet provider is AT&T Fiber. AT&T Fiber is, as the name suggests, a fiber-optic internet service (don’t confuse it with “AT&T Internet,” which is the brand that AT&T uses for its IPBB connection type — that’s essentially similar to DSL internet, and it’s not as fast). AT&T Fiber can reach speeds of up to 5 Gbps, and it offers several good plans at different maximum speeds and price points, the most affordable of which starts at $55 per month.

Not every address in Tulsa is served by AT&T Fiber, so there’s a chance that you won’t find it in your area of town. If that’s the case, we’d recommend that you consider Cox next. Cox is Tulsa’s cable internet company, and it offers broadband speeds that can reach up to 2 Gbps. Cox is known for its bundle deals, which start at $111 per month and include services like pay TV.

There are other options in Tulsa, including DSL internet plans from the aforementioned AT&T Internet as well as from Kinetic by Windstream. DSL plans aren’t as fast as their broadband cable and fiber counterparts, but they may make sense as budget options for some households with lower internet needs.

Fastest Internet Providers in Tulsa, OK

Tulsa’s fastest internet service company is AT&T Internet, which offers plans with speeds of up to 5 Gbps.

Both AT&T Fiber (up to 5 Gbps) and Cox (up to 2 Gbps) offer very fast speeds, but it’s worth noting that AT&T Fiber’s upload speeds are faster than Cox’s. That’s because fiber internet has “symmetrical” speeds: On a fiber network, upload speeds always match download speeds. That’s not true of cable (or DSL, for that matter); on non-fiber networks, upload speeds are much slower than download speeds.

Download speed is the more important of the two in most situations, but there are cases in which upload speeds matter — like hosting a livestream, for instance, or playing online video games.

Internet Availability in Tulsa, OK

Tulsa is served by a couple of very fast internet providers. One of those — Cox — is available almost everywhere in town, with a service area that covers 89.6% of Tulsa. The other, AT&T Fiber, is available in only some areas of Tulsa (though AT&T does offer a DSL service, AT&T Internet, in many of the places where its fiber service is not yet available). The big question, then, is whether your area of Tulsa is served by AT&T Fiber or not.

With the exception of the immediate area of Downtown Tulsa, Riverview, the East Village District, and parts of The Pearl, AT&T Fiber’s network is stronger near the center of town. Its footprint looks a bit like a donut — it’s missing those core inner neighborhoods, but it covers places like Maple Ridge North, Florence Park, Turner Park, Maplewood, Louisville Heights, and Lacy Park.

Where AT&T’s fiber network starts to disappear is at the edge of town, particularly in the southern and eastern parts of the city. If you’re coming up across the Arkansas River from Bixby and entering Tulsa neighborhoods like Sun Meadow or Cedar Ridge Park, you’ll find AT&T Fiber only in small patches — a bit here, near the casino, a bit there, in Chimney Hills, but never all over consistently like it is further into town. It won’t be until you reach LaFortune Park and Patrick Henry that the fiber network starts to become really widely available. You’d see a similar situation if you were to come in from Broken Arrow; you wouldn’t see much of any coverage in places like Regency Park, but then you’d enter much better-connected neighborhoods once you crossed I-44 into Patrick Henry, Highland Park, and Moeller Heights.