FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa

Data updated June 2026

Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa 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 Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 880 records behind that footprint. Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa reports localized broadband footprint: 880 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.

880
deployment records reported to the FCC
#1,026 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
1
state/territory with filings
#77 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 of Stanton, Iowa state-reach reading

Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa 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.

Iowa alone accounts for 100.0% of Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa's filings (880 of 880), 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 of Stanton, Iowa 880 records · 1 state

880 · RANK-MID · FOOT-LOCAL

  • BOOK-MICRO 880
  • RANK-MID #1,026
  • FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
  • IN-ST-MID #77 in Iowa
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Grizzly Broadband
  • MED-NEAR Near median
  • COV-BROAD #488 by states

Nearest record peer: Grizzly Broadband, LLC ( -3 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.

Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa among its record-volume peers

Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.

Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers

Deployment records filed vs States/territories covered 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 entities by Deployment records filed (X) and States/territories covered (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Scale and reachBroad but thinConcentrated filerBelow peer median both 875880885890 0.511.522.5 Deployment records filed States/territories covered Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, IowaGrizzly Broadband, LLCPrince George Electric CooperativeWireless Investments LLCPembroke Telephone Company, Inc.Lycom CommunicationsSS Ventures, Inc.

A crawlable text summary: Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa filed 880 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 884 records and 1 states.

Speed-tier climate where Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa files

Record-weighted across the 1 state where Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 20.6% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 4.0 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 of Stanton, Iowa's retail offers.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 880 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 31.7% <3/0.768 9.1% 3/0.768 → 25/3 38.6% 25/3 → 100/20 13.4% 100/20 → 1G 7.2% ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 279 Legacy 80 Standard 340 Giga-capable 118 Gigabit+ 63 880 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa 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 of Stanton, Iowa Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa highlighted

880 records · #1,026 of 2,138

Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa sits at roughly the 52nd percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, close to the median provider's 781 records.

How Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa's 880 filed records break down by state Same rows as the table below
  • Iowa 880

Full State Breakdown

State Records
Iowa 880

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

Grizzly Broadband, LLC (877) · Prince George Electric Cooperative (884) · Wireless Investments LLC (876) · Pembroke Telephone Company, Inc. (885) · Form 477 reading guide →

What to do with Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa's footprint

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

  • Check Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Stanton, Iowa's reported footprint in Iowa, its largest state by filings (880 records). Iowa state page
  • Compare against Grizzly Broadband, LLC, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Grizzly Broadband, LLC
  • 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.