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                                                                 Exhibit 10.1.3

                                   EXHIBIT A
          2000-1 AMENDMENT TO THE DOBSON COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
                            1996 STOCK OPTION PLAN

                                      I.

        Section 11 of the Dobson Communications Corporation 1996 Stock Option
Plan (the "Plan") is hereby amended effective January 10, 2000, to read as
follows:

        "11. ASSIGNABILITY.

                  (a) Except as provided in Subsection (b) below, no
             Option shall be assignable or transferable by the grantee
             except by will, by the laws of descent and distribution or,
             in the case of Non-Qualified Options only, pursuant to a
             valid domestic relations order.  Except as set forth in the
             previous sentence and in Subsection (b) below, during the
             lifetime of a grantee each Option shall be exercisable only
             by such grantee.

                  (b) The Committee may, in its sole discretion,
             permit the transfer by a Participant of all or a
             portion of the Participant's Non-Qualified Options
             granted under this Plan to (i) the spouse, children,
             grandchildren, siblings (or descendents of siblings)
             of the Participant ('Immediate Family Members'), (ii)
             a trust or trusts for the primary benefit of such
             Immediate Family Members, (iii) a partnership in which
             the Participant, such Immediate Family Members, or
             other permissible transferees under this Subsection
             (b) are the only partners, or (iv) other entities at
             least 80% owned by or for the benefit of the
             Participant, such Immediate Family Members, or other
             permissible transferees under this Subsection (b).
             For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term
             'other entities' is intended to include corporations,
             limited liability companies, and other entities
             commonly used in estate planning.  Following transfer,
             any such Non-Qualified Options shall continue to be
             subject to the same terms and conditions as were
             applicable immediately prior to transfer.  No transfer
             pursuant to this Subsection (b) shall be effective to
             bind the Company unless the Company shall have been
             furnished with written notice of such transfer
             together with such other documents regarding the
             transfer as the Committee shall request."

                                      II.

        Section 14 of the Plan is hereby amended effective as of December 21,
1998, to read as follows:

        "14. MEANS OF EXERCISING OPTIONS.  An Option (or any part of
             installment thereof) shall be exercised by giving written notice
             to the Company at its principal office address, or to such
             transfer agent as the Company shall
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             designate.  Such notice shall identify the Option being
             exercised and specify the number of shares as to which such
             Option is being exercised, accompanied by (i) an instrument of
             accession providing that the optionee agrees to be bound by the
             terms, rights and obligations applicable to 'Shareholders' under
             that certain Shareholders' Agreement dated as of March 19, 1996,
             by and among the Company and its stockholders signatory thereto,
             as amended from time to time, and (ii) full payment of the
             purchase price therefor either (a) in United States dollars in
             cash or by check, (b) at the discretion of the Committee and
             only with respect to Options granted on or after December 21,
             1998, through delivery of shares of Common Stock having a fair
             market value equal as of the date of the exercise to the cash
             exercise price of the Option including withholding of shares of
             Common Stock otherwise deliverable upon exercise of an Option,
             but only to the extent such exercise of an Option would not
             result in an accounting compensation charge with respect to the
             shares used to pay the exercise price unless otherwise
             determined by the Committee, (c) at the discretion of the
             Committee, by delivery of the grantee's personal recourse note
             bearing interest payable not less than annually at no less than
             100% of the lowest applicable Federal rate, as defined in
             Section 1274(d) of the Code, (d) at the discretion of the
             Committee and consistent with applicable law, through the
             delivery of an assignment to the Company of a sufficient amount
             of the proceeds from the sale of the Common Stock acquired upon
             exercise of the Option and an authorization to the broker or
             selling agent to pay that amount to the Company, which sale
             shall be at the participant's direction at the time of exercise,
             or (e) at the discretion of the Committee, by any combination of
             (a), (b), (c) and (d) above.  If the Committee exercises its
             discretion to permit payment of the exercise price of an ISO by
             means of the methods set forth in clauses (b), (c), (d) or (e)
             of the preceding sentence, such discretion shall be exercised in
             writing at the time of the grant of the ISO in question.  The
             holder of an Option shall not have the rights of a shareholder
             with respect to the shares covered by such Option until the date
             of issuance of a stock certificate to such holder for such
             shares.  Except as expressly provided above in paragraph 13 with
             respect to changes in capitalization and stock dividends, no
             adjustment shall be made for dividends or similar rights for
             which the record date is before the date such stock certificate
             is issued."

        Except as otherwise provided in this 2000-1 Amendment to the Dobson
Communications Corporation 1996 Stock Option Plan, the Plan is hereby ratified
and confirmed in all respects.