Farmers Telephone Company-Essex
Data updated June 2026
Farmers Telephone Company-Essex 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-Essex opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 444 records behind that footprint. Farmers Telephone Company-Essex reports localized broadband footprint: 444 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 444
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #1,316 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #111 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-Essex state-reach reading
Farmers Telephone Company-Essex 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 Telephone Company-Essex's filings (444 of 444), 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-Essex 444 records · 1 state
444 · RANK-LOWER · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-MICRO 444
- RANK-LOWER #1,316
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-MID #111 in Iowa
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bayou Cable
- MED-BELOW Below median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Bayou Cable 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-Essex 444
- Bayou Cable Inc. 444
- Roggen Telephone Cooperative Company 442
- RC Wireless Inc. 447
- Wireless Broadband Solutions Inc. 441
Farmers Telephone Company-Essex among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Farmers Telephone Company-Essex and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Farmers Telephone Company-Essex vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Farmers Telephone Company-Essex filed 444 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 444 records and 1 states.
Speed-tier climate where Farmers Telephone Company-Essex files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Farmers Telephone Company-Essex files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 20.7% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 3.9 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-Essex'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-Essex Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Farmers Telephone Company-Essex highlighted
444 records · #1,316 of 2,138
Farmers Telephone Company-Essex sits at roughly the 38th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 1.8x smaller than the median provider's 781 records.
- Iowa 444
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Iowa | 444 |
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
Bayou Cable Inc. (444) · Roggen Telephone Cooperative Company (442) · RC Wireless Inc. (447) · Wireless Broadband Solutions Inc. (441) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Farmers Telephone Company-Essex's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Farmers Telephone Company-Essex's reported footprint in Iowa, its largest state by filings (444 records). Iowa state page
- Compare against Bayou Cable Inc., a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Bayou Cable 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.