FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia

Data updated June 2026

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. Map the states it covers and how that reach ranks against other Form 477 providers.

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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.

Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia state-reach reading

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 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.

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.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 228 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 31.6% <3/0.768 9.2% 3/0.768 → 25/3 38.6% 25/3 → 100/20 13.6% 100/20 → 1G 7.0% ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 72 Legacy 21 Standard 88 Giga-capable 31 Gigabit+ 16 228 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Farmers Telephone Company-Batavia 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 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.

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

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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.

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.