Farmers Independent Telephone Company
Data updated June 2026
Farmers Independent 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
Farmers Independent Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 860 records behind that footprint. Farmers Independent Telephone Company reports localized broadband footprint: 860 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 860
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #1,031 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #48 of 90 providers reporting in Wisconsin
- rank among providers in Wisconsin 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.
Farmers Independent Telephone Company state-reach reading
Farmers Independent 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.
Wisconsin alone accounts for 100.0% of Farmers Independent Telephone Company's filings (860 of 860), 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-FARMERS-INDEPENDENT-TELEP · Farmers Independent Telephone Company 860 records · 1 state
860 · RANK-MID · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-MICRO 860
- RANK-MID #1,031
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-MID #48 in Wisconsin
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Siyeh Comm.
- MED-NEAR Near median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Siyeh Communications (+ 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
- Farmers Independent Telephone Company 860
- Siyeh Communications 862
- UniTek, Inc. 856
- Butler-Bremer Mutual Telephone Company 870
- ISP Management Inc. 848
Farmers Independent Telephone Company among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Farmers Independent Telephone Company and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Farmers Independent Telephone Company vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Farmers Independent Telephone Company filed 860 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 862 records and 1 states.
Speed-tier climate where Farmers Independent Telephone Company files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Farmers Independent Telephone Company files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 19.8% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 4.8 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Farmers Independent 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 Farmers Independent Telephone Company Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Farmers Independent Telephone Company highlighted
860 records · #1,031 of 2,138
Farmers Independent Telephone Company sits at roughly the 52nd percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, close to the median provider's 781 records.
- Wisconsin 860
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 860 |
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
Siyeh Communications (862) · UniTek, Inc. (856) · Butler-Bremer Mutual Telephone Company (870) · ISP Management Inc. (848) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Farmers Independent Telephone Company's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Farmers Independent Telephone Company's reported footprint in Wisconsin, its largest state by filings (860 records). Wisconsin state page
- Compare against Siyeh Communications, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Siyeh 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.