FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative

Data updated June 2026

Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative opens on filing volume: #347 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (6,515 records). Compare its Form 477 record book to peer filers and the states where it reports the most blocks.

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Filing volume, in one line

Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative opens on filing volume: #347 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (6,515 records). Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative reports localized broadband footprint: 6,515 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.

6,515
deployment records reported to the FCC
#347 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
1
state/territory with filings
#15 of 34 providers reporting in North Dakota
rank among providers in North Dakota alone

Form 477 records count census blocks a provider reports it can serve, not subscribers or homes connected, a measure of reported reach.

Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative filing-volume reading

Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative opens on filing volume: #347 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (6,515 records).

Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative 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.

North Dakota alone accounts for 100.0% of Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative's filings (6,515 of 6,515), 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-DAKOTA-CENTRAL-TELECOMMUN · Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative 6,515 records · 1 state

6,515 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-LOCAL

  • BOOK-SMALL 6,515
  • RANK-UPPER #347
  • FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
  • IN-ST-MID #15 in North Dakota
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ PrineTime Internet So…
  • MED-ABOVE Above median
  • COV-BROAD #488 by states

Nearest record peer: PrineTime Internet Solutions ( -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.

Providers near Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative on Form 477 scale

Peer filers for Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative by deployment-record volume first, then state/territory reach (record floor ≥1,000, state floor ≥2). In-state rank tables and the record neighbourhood stay intact.

Similar deployment-record volume

Nearest filers by total Form 477 records (6,515 here).

PrineTime Internet Solutions 6,513 Dell Tel. Co-op 6,504 Twin Valley Management 6,473 OACYS Technology 6,470

Speed-tier climate where Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative files

Record-weighted across the 1 state where Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 26.9% 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 Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative's own speed claim.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 6,515 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 23.7% <3/0.768 45.7% 25/3 → 100/20 6.6% 100/20 → 1G 20.3% ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 1,546 Legacy 239 Standard 2,980 Giga-capable 428 Gigabit+ 1,322 6,515 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative retail speeds)

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 Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative highlighted

6,515 records · #347 of 2,138

Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative sits at roughly the 84th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 8.3x the median provider's 781 records.

Full State Breakdown

State Records
North Dakota 6,515

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

PrineTime Internet Solutions (6,513) · Dell Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (6,504) · Twin Valley Management, Inc. (6,473) · OACYS Technology (6,470) · Form 477 reading guide →

What to do with Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative's footprint

A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.

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.