Colonial Telephone Company
Data updated June 2026
Colonial 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
Colonial Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 329 records behind that footprint. Colonial Telephone Company reports localized broadband footprint: 329 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 329
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #1,426 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #27 of 44 providers reporting in Mississippi
- rank among providers in Mississippi 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.
Colonial Telephone Company state-reach reading
Colonial 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.
Mississippi alone accounts for 100.0% of Colonial Telephone Company's filings (329 of 329), 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-COLONIAL-TELEPHONE-COMPAN · Colonial Telephone Company 329 records · 1 state
329 · RANK-LOWER · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-MICRO 329
- RANK-LOWER #1,426
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-MID #27 in Mississippi
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Postco
- MED-BELOW Below median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Postco, Inc. (+ 2 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
- Colonial Telephone Company 329
- Postco, Inc. 331
- DC Access, LLC 332
- MEL AeroFlight 332
- Aptitude Internet LLC 332
Colonial Telephone Company among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Colonial Telephone Company and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Colonial Telephone Company vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Colonial Telephone Company filed 329 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 332 records and 1 states.
Speed-tier climate where Colonial Telephone Company files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Colonial Telephone Company files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 21.2% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 3.4 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Colonial Telephone Company's retail offers.
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 Colonial Telephone Company Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Colonial Telephone Company highlighted
329 records · #1,426 of 2,138
Colonial Telephone Company sits at roughly the 33rd percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 2.4x smaller than the median provider's 781 records.
- Mississippi 329
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Mississippi | 329 |
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
Postco, Inc. (331) · DC Access, LLC (332) · MEL AeroFlight (332) · Aptitude Internet LLC (332) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Colonial Telephone Company's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Colonial Telephone Company's reported footprint in Mississippi, its largest state by filings (329 records). Mississippi state page
- Compare against Postco, Inc., a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Postco, Inc.
- 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.