Chester Telephone Company
Data updated June 2026
Chester Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 5,596 records behind that footprint. Map the states it covers and how that reach ranks against other Form 477 providers.
State reach, in one line
Chester Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 5,596 records behind that footprint. Chester Telephone Company reports localized broadband footprint: 5,596 Form 477 deployment records across 2 states and territories.
- 5,596
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #388 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 2
- states and territories with filings
- #18 of 37 providers reporting in South Carolina
- rank among providers in South Carolina alone
Form 477 records count census blocks a provider reports it can serve, not subscribers or homes connected, a measure of reported reach.
Chester Telephone Company state-reach reading
Chester Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 5,596 records behind that footprint.
Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Chester Telephone Company 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.
South Carolina alone accounts for 74.7% of Chester Telephone Company's filings (4,181 of 5,596), 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-CHESTER-TELEPHONE-COMPANY · Chester Telephone Company 5,596 records · 2 states
5,596 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-UNK
- BOOK-SMALL 5,596
- RANK-UPPER #388
- FOOT-UNK Footprint pending
- IN-ST-MID #18 in South Carolina
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ JTN Comm.
- MED-ABOVE Above median
- COV-BROAD #187 by states
Nearest record peer: JTN Communications ( -7 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
- Chester Telephone Company 5,596
- JTN Comm. 5,589
- Minnesota WiFi 5,572
- Great Basin Internet… 5,537
- CTS Telecommunication… 5,525
Providers near Chester Telephone Company on state reach
Peer filers for Chester 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 (5,596 here).
Similar state/territory reach
Nearest filers by states with filings (2 here), excluding the record-volume set.
Speed-tier climate where Chester Telephone Company files
Record-weighted across the 2 states where Chester Telephone Company files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 27.4% 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 Chester 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 Chester Telephone Company Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Chester Telephone Company highlighted
5,596 records · #388 of 2,138
Chester Telephone Company sits at roughly the 82nd percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 7.2x the median provider's 781 records.
Coverage Footprint
View all 2 states as a list
Where Chester Telephone Company Reports the Most
Chester Telephone Company - top states by reported deployment records
South Carolina leads · 4,181 records
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| South Carolina | 4,181 |
| Georgia | 1,415 |
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
JTN Communications (5,589) · Minnesota WiFi (5,572) · Great Basin Internet Services, Inc. (5,537) · CTS Telecommunications Corporation (5,525) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Chester Telephone Company's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Chester Telephone Company's reported footprint in South Carolina, its largest state by filings (4,181 records). South Carolina state page
- Compare against JTN Communications, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to JTN Communications
- 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.