Benton Cooperative Telephone Company
Data updated June 2026
Benton Cooperative Telephone Company filed with the FCC across 1 state and territories; every figure below is standardized against 2,138 other filers' state footprints using the same field definitions, so its geographic reach reads in context, not isolation.
State reach, in one line
Benton Cooperative Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 1,494 records behind that footprint. Benton Cooperative Telephone Company reports localized broadband footprint: 1,494 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 1,494
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #833 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #54 of 114 providers reporting in Minnesota
- rank among providers in Minnesota alone
Form 477 records count census blocks a provider reports it can serve, not subscribers or homes connected, a measure of reported reach.
Record scope. Counts are Form 477 records flagged as offered to consumers; at least 90% of this provider's filings are. How the count is scoped.
Benton Cooperative Telephone Company state-reach reading
Benton Cooperative Telephone Company sits in the middle third of Form 477 providers by record volume (329–2,064). Mid-pack filers often mix dense local markets with thin out-of-state blocks under the same holding name.
Minnesota alone accounts for 100.0% of Benton Cooperative Telephone Company's filings (1,494 of 1,494), 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-BENTON-COOPERATIVE-TELEPH · Benton Cooperative Telephone Company 1,494 records · 1 state
1,494 · RANK-MID · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-SMALL 1,494
- RANK-MID #833
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-MID #54 in Minnesota
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Inland Cellular Telep…
- MED-ABOVE Above median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Inland Cellular Telephone Company (+ 0 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, Inc. 11,049,786
- Corpus median 781
- Benton Cooperative Telephone Company 1,494
- Inland Cellular Telephone Company 1,494
- Great Lakes Communication Corp. 1,493
- Chapin Communications Corporation 1,498
- Farmers & Merchants Mutual Telephone Company 1,498
Benton Cooperative Telephone Company among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Benton Cooperative Telephone Company and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Benton Cooperative Telephone Company vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Benton Cooperative Telephone Company filed 1,494 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 1,494 records and 1 states.
Providers near Benton Cooperative Telephone Company on state reach
Peer filers for Benton Cooperative Telephone Company 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 (1,494 here).
Speed-tier climate where Benton Cooperative Telephone Company files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Benton Cooperative Telephone Company files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 26.8% 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 Benton Cooperative Telephone Company'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 Benton Cooperative Telephone Company Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Benton Cooperative Telephone Company highlighted
1,494 records · #833 of 2,138
Benton Cooperative Telephone Company sits at roughly the 61st percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 1.9x the median provider's 781 records.
- Minnesota 1,494
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Minnesota | 1,494 |
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
Inland Cellular Telephone Company (1,494) · Great Lakes Communication Corp. (1,493) · Chapin Communications Corporation (1,498) · Farmers & Merchants Mutual Telephone Company (1,498) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Benton Cooperative Telephone Company's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Benton Cooperative Telephone Company's reported footprint in Minnesota, its largest state by filings (1,494 records). Minnesota state page
- Compare against Inland Cellular Telephone Company, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Inland Cellular Telephone Company
- 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.