Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia
Data updated June 2026
Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia 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 Telephone Company-Batavia opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 228 records behind that footprint. Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia reports localized broadband footprint: 228 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 228
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #1,556 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #151 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 Telephone Company-Batavia state-reach reading
Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia sits in the lower third of Form 477 providers by record volume (< 329). Thin filing books still matter when they dominate one state or a niche technology pocket rather than a national residential footprint.
Iowa alone accounts for 100.0% of Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia's filings (228 of 228), 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-TELEPHONE-COMPANY · Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia 228 records · 1 state
228 · RANK-LOWER · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-MICRO 228
- RANK-LOWER #1,556
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-MID #151 in Iowa
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hunter Comm.
- MED-BELOW Below median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Hunter Communications Inc. (+ 0 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 Telephone Company-Batavia 228
- Hunter Communications Inc. 228
- Mayfield Electric & Water Systems 229
- Mescalero Apache Telecom, Inc. 227
- Consolidated Electric Cooperative, Inc. 230
Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia filed 228 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 228 records and 1 states.
Speed-tier climate where Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia 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 Telephone Company-Batavia'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 Telephone Company-Batavia Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia highlighted
228 records · #1,556 of 2,138
Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia sits at roughly the 27th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 3.4x smaller than the median provider's 781 records.
- Iowa 228
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Iowa | 228 |
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
Hunter Communications Inc. (228) · Mayfield Electric & Water Systems (229) · Mescalero Apache Telecom, Inc. (227) · Consolidated Electric Cooperative, Inc. (230) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia's reported footprint in Iowa, its largest state by filings (228 records). Iowa state page
- Compare against Hunter Communications Inc., a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Hunter Communications 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.