Great Lakes Communication Corp.
Data updated June 2026
Great Lakes Communication Corp. opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 1,493 records behind that footprint. Map the states it covers and how that reach ranks against other Form 477 providers.
State reach, in one line
Great Lakes Communication Corp. opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 1,493 records behind that footprint. Great Lakes Communication Corp. reports localized broadband footprint: 1,493 Form 477 deployment records across 2 states and territories.
- 1,493
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #835 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 2
- states and territories with filings
- #59 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.
Great Lakes Communication Corp. state-reach reading
Great Lakes Communication Corp. opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 1,493 records behind that footprint.
Great Lakes Communication Corp. 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 96.8% of Great Lakes Communication Corp.'s filings (1,445 of 1,493), 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-GREAT-LAKES-COMMUNICATION · Great Lakes Communication Corp. 1,493 records · 2 states
1,493 · RANK-MID · FOOT-UNK
- BOOK-SMALL 1,493
- RANK-MID #835
- FOOT-UNK Footprint pending
- IN-ST-MID #59 in Iowa
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Inland Cellular Telep…
- MED-ABOVE Above median
- COV-BROAD #187 by states
Nearest record peer: Inland Cellular Telephone Company (+ 1 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
- Great Lakes Communication Corp. 1,493
- Inland Cellular Telep… 1,494
- Benton Cooperative Te… 1,494
- Peoples Rural Telepho… 1,490
- Chapin Comm. Corporat… 1,498
Providers near Great Lakes Communication Corp. on state reach
Peer filers for Great Lakes Communication Corp. 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 (1,493 here).
Similar state/territory reach
Nearest filers by states with filings (2 here), excluding the record-volume set.
Speed-tier climate where Great Lakes Communication Corp. files
Record-weighted across the 2 states where Great Lakes Communication Corp. files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 20.7% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 3.8 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Great Lakes Communication Corp.'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 Great Lakes Communication Corp. Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Great Lakes Communication Corp. highlighted
1,493 records · #835 of 2,138
Great Lakes Communication Corp. sits at roughly the 61st percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 1.9x the median provider's 781 records.
Coverage Footprint
View all 2 states as a list
Where Great Lakes Communication Corp. Reports the Most
Great Lakes Communication Corp. - top states by reported deployment records
Iowa leads · 1,445 records
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
Inland Cellular Telephone Company (1,494) · Benton Cooperative Telephone Company (1,494) · Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, Inc. (1,490) · Chapin Communications Corporation (1,498) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Great Lakes Communication Corp.'s footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Great Lakes Communication Corp.'s reported footprint in Iowa, its largest state by filings (1,445 records). Iowa state page
- Compare against Inland Cellular Telephone Company, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Inland Cellular Telephone Company
- 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.