FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs

Data updated June 2026

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). 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

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.

Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs filing-volume reading

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).

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.

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).

Amery Telcom 4,336 Wireless Data Net 4,376 Emery Telcom 4,314 Lismore Co-op Tel. Co. 4,314

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.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 4,346 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 31.8% <3/0.768 9.1% 3/0.768 → 25/3 38.6% 25/3 → 100/20 13.4% 100/20 → 1G 7.1% ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 1,380 Legacy 397 Standard 1,677 Giga-capable 583 Gigabit+ 309 4,346 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Farmers Mutual Telephone Company-Nora Springs 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 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.

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.