Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs
Data updated June 2026
Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs filed these Form 477 broadband deployment records with the FCC; every figure below is standardized against 2,138 other nationwide filers using the same field definitions, so its filing volume reads in context, not isolation.
Filing volume, in one line
Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs opens on filing volume: #459 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (4,346 records). Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs reports localized broadband footprint: 4,346 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 4,346
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #459 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #21 of 207 providers reporting in Iowa
- rank among providers in Iowa 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 Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs filing-volume reading
Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs 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.
Iowa alone accounts for 100.0% of Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs's filings (4,346 of 4,346), 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-MUTUAL-TELEPHONE- · Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs 4,346 records · 1 state
4,346 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-SMALL 4,346
- RANK-UPPER #459
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-UPPER #21 in Iowa
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Amery Telcom
- MED-ABOVE Above median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Amery Telcom, Inc. ( -10 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 Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs 4,346
- Amery Telcom, Inc. 4,336
- Wireless Data Net, LLC 4,376
- Emery Telcom 4,314
- Lismore Cooperative Telephone Company 4,314
Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs filed 4,346 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 4,336 records and 1 states.
Providers near Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs on Form 477 scale
Peer filers for Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs 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 (4,346 here).
Speed-tier climate where Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 20.5% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 4.1 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs'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 Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs highlighted
4,346 records · #459 of 2,138
Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs sits at roughly the 79th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 5.6x the median provider's 781 records.
- Iowa 4,346
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Iowa | 4,346 |
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
Amery Telcom, Inc. (4,336) · Wireless Data Net, LLC (4,376) · Emery Telcom (4,314) · Lismore Cooperative Telephone Company (4,314) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs's reported footprint in Iowa, its largest state by filings (4,346 records). Iowa state page
- Compare against Amery Telcom, Inc., a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Amery Telcom, 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.