Adams Telephone Co-Operative
Data updated June 2026
Adams Telephone Co-Operative opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 7,136 records behind that footprint. Map the states it covers and how that reach ranks against other Form 477 providers.
State reach, in one line
Adams Telephone Co-Operative opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 7,136 records behind that footprint. Adams Telephone Co-Operative reports localized broadband footprint: 7,136 Form 477 deployment records across 2 states and territories.
- 7,136
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #320 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 2
- states and territories with filings
- #27 of 143 providers reporting in Illinois
- rank among providers in Illinois alone
Form 477 records count census blocks a provider reports it can serve, not subscribers or homes connected, a measure of reported reach.
Adams Telephone Co-Operative state-reach reading
Adams Telephone Co-Operative opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 7,136 records behind that footprint.
Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Adams Telephone Co-Operative sits in the upper third by record volume (≥ 2,064). Large books usually mean many census blocks marked served, not that every block has active subscribers.
Illinois alone accounts for 99.9% of Adams Telephone Co-Operative's filings (7,129 of 7,136), a concentrated book where one state can swing the national picture. Form 477 historically let providers mark a whole census block from a single reachable address; treat these counts as declared capability, not address-level availability, speed, or price.
Filing desk
Filer FCC477-ADAMS-TELEPHONE-CO-OPERAT · Adams Telephone Co-Operative 7,136 records · 2 states
7,136 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-UNK
- BOOK-SMALL 7,136
- RANK-UPPER #320
- FOOT-UNK Footprint pending
- IN-ST-UPPER #27 in Illinois
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Atlantic Telephone Me…
- MED-ABOVE Above median
- COV-BROAD #187 by states
Nearest record peer: Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation ( -11 records)
Instrument codes from this filer’s Form 477 deployment records, corpus rank, geographic footprint, in-state rank, photo-finish peer, median ratio, and separate state-count rank, not a service-quality score.
Record neighbourhood
Nationwide filing poles and nearest ABS record peers, not a reprint of every state table row.
- #1 filer · ViaSat 11,049,786
- Corpus median 781
- Adams Telephone Co-Operative 7,136
- Atlantic Telephone Me… 7,125
- Comelec Services 7,156
- BW Telcom 7,170
- Ligonier Telephone Co. 7,096
Providers near Adams Telephone Co-Operative on state reach
Peer filers for Adams Telephone Co-Operative by state/territory reach in the second panel; the first panel still shows nearest record-volume neighbours (record floor ≥1,000, state floor ≥2).
Similar deployment-record volume
Nearest filers by total Form 477 records (7,136 here).
Similar state/territory reach
Nearest filers by states with filings (2 here), excluding the record-volume set.
Speed-tier climate where Adams Telephone Co-Operative files
Record-weighted across the 2 states where Adams Telephone Co-Operative files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 21.9% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, within 3 pp of the national 24.6% mix. The footprint climate tracks the country average; it still is not Adams Telephone Co-Operative's own speed claim.
Source: FCC Form 477 fixed broadband deployment data, June 2020 status (final Form 477 release) · Derivation: record-weighted join of state_speed_tiers to this filer's provider_states weights (state climates, not retail speeds) · National tier finder →
How Adams Telephone Co-Operative Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Adams Telephone Co-Operative highlighted
7,136 records · #320 of 2,138
Adams Telephone Co-Operative sits at roughly the 85th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 9.1x the median provider's 781 records.
Coverage Footprint
View all 2 states as a list
Where Adams Telephone Co-Operative Reports the Most
Adams Telephone Co-Operative - top states by reported deployment records
Illinois leads · 7,129 records
Disclaimer: Data from FCC Form 477. For informational purposes only. Coverage data represents provider filings, not guaranteed service at a specific address. Always verify availability directly with the provider.
Source: FCC Form 477 fixed broadband deployment dataset, June 2020 status (final Form 477 release) · Derivation: provider totals and state ranks computed from census-block filing rows; no editor-typed coverage figures
Read with this filer
Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation (7,125) · Comelec Services, Inc. (7,156) · BW Telcom (7,170) · Ligonier Telephone Co., Inc. (7,096) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Adams Telephone Co-Operative's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Adams Telephone Co-Operative's reported footprint in Illinois, its largest state by filings (7,129 records). Illinois state page
- Compare against Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation
- Find your own speed tier and what technology mix typically delivers it. Speed tier finder
Figures are FCC Form 477 fixed-deployment data as of June 2020, the final Form 477 release, self-reported by census block. For current, address-level availability, use the FCC National Broadband Map.