Columbus Telephone Company
Data updated June 2026
Columbus Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #73 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (4 states), with 733 records behind that footprint. Map the states it covers and how that reach ranks against other Form 477 providers.
State reach, in one line
Columbus Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #73 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (4 states), with 733 records behind that footprint. Columbus Telephone Company reports regional broadband footprint: 733 Form 477 deployment records across 4 states and territories.
- 733
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #1,098 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 4
- states and territories with filings
- #59 of 108 providers reporting in Kansas
- rank among providers in Kansas alone
Form 477 records count census blocks a provider reports it can serve, not subscribers or homes connected, a measure of reported reach.
Columbus Telephone Company state-reach reading
Columbus Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #73 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (4 states), with 733 records behind that footprint.
Columbus 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.
Kansas alone accounts for 95.1% of Columbus Telephone Company's filings (697 of 733), 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-COLUMBUS-TELEPHONE-COMPAN · Columbus Telephone Company 733 records · 4 states
733 · RANK-MID · FOOT-REGION
- BOOK-MICRO 733
- RANK-MID #1,098
- FOOT-REGION 4 states
- IN-ST-MID #59 in Kansas
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ MontanaSky Networks
- MED-NEAR Near median
- COV-BROAD #73 by states
Nearest record peer: MontanaSky Networks, Inc. ( -1 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
- Columbus Telephone Company 733
- MontanaSky Networks 732
- Verso Networks 730
- Grand Mound Cooperati… 738
- Carr Comm. 738
Providers near Columbus Telephone Company on state reach
Peer filers for Columbus 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 state/territory reach
Nearest filers by states with filings (4 here), excluding the record-volume set.
Speed-tier climate where Columbus Telephone Company files
Record-weighted across the 4 states where Columbus Telephone Company files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 13.8% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 10.8 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Columbus 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 Columbus Telephone Company Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Columbus Telephone Company highlighted
733 records · #1,098 of 2,138
Columbus Telephone Company sits at roughly the 49th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, close to the median provider's 781 records.
Coverage Footprint
View all 4 states as a list
Where Columbus Telephone Company Reports the Most
Columbus Telephone Company - top states by reported deployment records
Kansas leads · 697 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
MontanaSky Networks, Inc. (732) · Verso Networks Inc. (730) · Grand Mound Cooperative Telephone Association (738) · Carr Communications, Inc. (738) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Columbus Telephone Company's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Columbus Telephone Company's reported footprint in Kansas, its largest state by filings (697 records). Kansas state page
- Compare against MontanaSky Networks, Inc., a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to MontanaSky Networks, 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.