FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.

Data updated June 2026

Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 2,377 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

Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 2,377 records behind that footprint. Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. reports localized broadband footprint: 2,377 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.

2,377
deployment records reported to the FCC
#650 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
1
state/territory with filings
#20 of 58 providers reporting in South Dakota
rank among providers in South Dakota alone

Form 477 records count census blocks a provider reports it can serve, not subscribers or homes connected, a measure of reported reach.

Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. state-reach reading

Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 2,377 records behind that footprint.

Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Golden West Telecommunications 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.

South Dakota alone accounts for 100.0% of Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.'s filings (2,377 of 2,377), 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-GOLDEN-WEST-TELECOMMUNICA · Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. 2,377 records · 1 state

2,377 · RANK-MID · FOOT-LOCAL

  • BOOK-SMALL 2,377
  • RANK-MID #650
  • FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
  • IN-ST-MID #20 in South Dakota
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bee Creek Comm.
  • MED-ABOVE Above median
  • COV-BROAD #488 by states

Nearest record peer: Bee Creek Communications, Inc. (+ 6 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 Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. on state reach

Peer filers for Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. by state/territory reach in the second panel; the first panel still shows nearest record-volume neighbours (record floor ≥1,000, state floor ≥2).

Similar deployment-record volume

Nearest filers by total Form 477 records (2,377 here).

Bee Creek Comm. 2,383 Hotwire Comm. 2,390 West River Co-op Tel. Co. 2,394 AlignTec 2,355

Speed-tier climate where Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. files

Record-weighted across the 1 state where Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 18.6% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 5.9 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.'s retail offers.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 2,377 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 20.5% <3/0.768 3/0.768 → 25/3 55.1% 25/3 → 100/20 10.1% 100/20 → 1G 8.5% ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 487 Legacy 137 Standard 1,310 Giga-capable 241 Gigabit+ 202 2,377 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. 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 Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. highlighted

2,377 records · #650 of 2,138

Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. sits at roughly the 70th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 3.0x the median provider's 781 records.

Full State Breakdown

State Records
South Dakota 2,377

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

Bee Creek Communications, Inc. (2,383) · Hotwire Communications, Ltd. (2,390) · West River Cooperative Telephone Company (2,394) · AlignTec Inc. (2,355) · Form 477 reading guide →

What to do with Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.'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.