Wichita is mostly a Cox and AT&T market. Cox Business has the dominant cable footprint across the metro. AT&T Business Fiber covers a growing share of commercial blocks. T-Mobile fixed wireless is widely available with strong coverage.
The pricing problem in Wichita is paying Cox the cable price for a fiber product. If your building has Cox fiber to the suite, the right price is much lower than what most contracts default to.
Wichita's commercial center
Wichita's commercial demand sits in three places. Old Town, the converted-warehouse adaptive-reuse district on the east edge of downtown, holds a deep concentration of restaurant, hospitality, creative-office, and small business tenancy in the city's older brick stock. The Delano District, the historic commercial corridor west of the Arkansas River across from downtown, has filled in with retail, restaurant, and small-format office tenancy over the past two decades. The Douglas Design District, the design and creative-services corridor running east along Douglas Avenue, anchors a deep concentration of architecture, design, and small-business tenancy outside the urban core. Spirit AeroSystems, the global aerospace structures manufacturer headquartered in Wichita, and Ascension Via Christi Health, the metro's largest hospital system, are two of the largest commercial accounts in the city and drive heavy enterprise telecom demand.
In January 2023, AT&T announced that, with Kansas Office of Broadband Development support, it planned to expand AT&T Fiber to more than 10,000 additional customer locations in Sedgwick County, including Wichita, by the end of 2024, putting more fiber-grade competition on the city's commercial blocks. One pricing wrinkle: Wichita Community Improvement Districts can levy up to a 2 percent extra retail sales tax or special assessments on real property for up to 22 years, creating location-specific cost differences across commercial projects often passed through in leases.
What you should be paying
These are dedicated internet ranges from current carrier wholesale data, marked up to typical retail.
Wichita dedicated internet, typical retail (mid 50%)
Monthly recurring charge, dedicated internet access (DIA). Numbers are derived from current carrier wholesale quotes. Shown as a metro-tier band where city-level data is thin.
| Speed | Typical retail (mid 50%) | Sample size |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Mbps | $630 – $1,060/mo | n = 6 |
| 500 Mbps | $955 – $1,660/mo | n = 6 |
| 1 Gbps | $1,195 – $2,000/mo | n = 7 |
| 10 Gbps | $1,560 – $6,250/mo | n = 6 |
If your bill sits above the high end of the band, you are likely overpaying.
Analyze My Bill FreeFor Cox Business coax at 600 Mbps, the fair price is $150 to $230 a month for a single office. For AT&T Business Fiber at 1 Gbps, expect $150 to $230 a month.
Carriers worth quoting in Wichita
Five carriers cover most addresses in the metro.
- Cox Business. Coax everywhere, fiber in select buildings.
- AT&T Business Fiber. Strong commercial fiber footprint downtown.
- Crown Castle Fiber. Common in commercial buildings downtown.
- T-Mobile Business Internet. $85 a month for 200 to 300 Mbps. Useful benchmark.
- Verizon 5G Business Internet. $99 a month at 400 Mbps.
If you have not had three of these on a quote sheet, you have not run a real comparison.
What to do this week
- Pull your most recent invoice. Find the contract end date and the side fees.
- Get one quote outside Cox. T-Mobile Business Internet is the fastest benchmark.
- Compare your base rate to the bands above. If you are 20 percent above the high end, the retention call is worth making.
See where your Wichita bill sits against current rates
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