FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC)

Data updated June 2026

Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) opens on filing volume: #138 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (19,058 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 Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) opens on filing volume: #138 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (19,058 records). Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) reports localized broadband footprint: 19,058 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.

19,058
deployment records reported to the FCC
#138 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
1
state/territory with filings
#7 of 37 providers reporting in South Carolina
rank among providers in South Carolina 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 Cooperative, Inc. (SC) filing-volume reading

Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) opens on filing volume: #138 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (19,058 records).

Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) 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.

South Carolina alone accounts for 100.0% of Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC)'s filings (19,058 of 19,058), 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-COOPERA · Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) 19,058 records · 1 state

19,058 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-LOCAL

  • BOOK-MID 19,058
  • RANK-UPPER #138
  • FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
  • IN-ST-UPPER #7 in South Carolina
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ McMinnville Access Co…
  • MED-10X+ 24× median
  • COV-BROAD #488 by states

Nearest record peer: McMinnville Access Company ( -19 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 Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) on Form 477 scale

Peer filers for Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) 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 (19,058 here).

McMinnville Access Co. 19,039 Action Comm. 18,888 Tri County Tel. Association 19,376 Radio Link Internet 18,613

Speed-tier climate where Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) files

Record-weighted across the 1 state where Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 26.9% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, within 3 pp of the national 24.6% mix. The footprint climate tracks the country average; it still is not Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC)'s own speed claim.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 19,058 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 20.5% <3/0.768 15.3% 3/0.768 → 25/3 37.3% 25/3 → 100/20 21.1% 100/20 → 1G ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 3,909 Legacy 2,910 Standard 7,103 Giga-capable 4,013 Gigabit+ 1,123 19,058 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) 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 Cooperative, Inc. (SC) Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) highlighted

19,058 records · #138 of 2,138

Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC) sits at the top 6% by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 24x the median provider's 781 records.

Full State Breakdown

State Records
South Carolina 19,058

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

McMinnville Access Company (19,039) · Action Communications, Inc. (18,888) · Tri County Telephone Association, Inc. (19,376) · Radio Link Internet (18,613) · Form 477 reading guide →

What to do with Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (SC)'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.