Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Data updated June 2026
Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. opens on filing volume: #255 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (9,350 records). Compare its Form 477 record book to peer filers and the states where it reports the most blocks.
Filing volume, in one line
Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. opens on filing volume: #255 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (9,350 records). Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. reports localized broadband footprint: 9,350 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 9,350
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #255 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #39 of 211 providers reporting in Texas
- rank among providers in Texas alone
Form 477 records count census blocks a provider reports it can serve, not subscribers or homes connected, a measure of reported reach.
Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. filing-volume reading
Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. opens on filing volume: #255 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (9,350 records).
Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 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.
Texas alone accounts for 100.0% of Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc.'s filings (9,350 of 9,350), 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-FIVE-AREA-TELEPHONE-COOPE · Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 9,350 records · 1 state
9,350 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-SMALL 9,350
- RANK-UPPER #255
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-UPPER #39 in Texas
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Douglas Electric Coop…
- MED-10X+ 12× median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Douglas Electric Cooperative Inc. ( -13 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 11,049,786
- Corpus median 781
- Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 9,350
- Douglas Electric Coop… 9,337
- Paul Bunyan Rural Tel… 9,327
- DTC Holding Company 9,379
- NITCO Holding Corpora… 9,409
Providers near Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. on Form 477 scale
Peer filers for Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 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 (9,350 here).
Speed-tier climate where Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 25.8% 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 Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc.'s own speed claim.
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 Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. highlighted
9,350 records · #255 of 2,138
Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. sits at roughly the 88th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 12x the median provider's 781 records.
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Texas | 9,350 |
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
Douglas Electric Cooperative Inc. (9,337) · Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative (9,327) · DTC Holding Company (9,379) · NITCO Holding Corporation (9,409) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc.'s footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc.'s reported footprint in Texas, its largest state by filings (9,350 records). Texas state page
- Compare against Douglas Electric Cooperative Inc., a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Douglas Electric Cooperative 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.