Great Plains Communications, Inc.
Data updated June 2026
Great Plains Communications, Inc. filed with the FCC across 4 states 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
Great Plains Communications, Inc. opens on geographic reach: #73 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (4 states), with 13,513 records behind that footprint. Great Plains Communications, Inc. reports regional broadband footprint: 13,513 Form 477 deployment records across 4 states and territories.
- 13,513
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #189 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 4
- states and territories with filings
- #19 of 85 providers reporting in Nebraska
- rank among providers in Nebraska 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. Great Plains Communications, Inc. filed 22,814 Form 477 records; 13,513 (59.2%) are flagged as offered to consumers, and only those are counted here. This provider's record count, its rank, and the peer figures below are therefore a smaller subset of what it filed than for a provider with no notice like this. How the count is scoped.
Great Plains Communications, Inc. state-reach reading
Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Great Plains Communications, 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.
Nebraska alone accounts for 99.3% of Great Plains Communications, Inc.'s filings (13,423 of 13,513), 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-PLAINS-COMMUNICATIO · Great Plains Communications, Inc. 13,513 records · 4 states
13,513 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-REGION
- BOOK-MID 13,513
- RANK-UPPER #189
- FOOT-REGION 4 states
- IN-ST-UPPER #19 in Nebraska
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Door County Broadband
- MED-10X+ 17× median
- COV-BROAD #73 by states
Nearest record peer: Door County Broadband LLC (+ 183 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
- Great Plains Communications, Inc. 13,513
- Door County Broadband LLC 13,696
- Texas Broadband, Inc. 13,770
- Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation 13,796
- ICON Technologies Inc. 13,930
Great Plains Communications, Inc. among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Great Plains Communications, Inc. and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Great Plains Communications, Inc. vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Great Plains Communications, Inc. filed 13,513 records across 4 states, against a peer-group median of 13,770 records and 2 states.
Providers near Great Plains Communications, Inc. on state reach
Peer filers for Great Plains Communications, 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 (13,513 here).
Similar state/territory reach
Nearest filers by states with filings (4 here), excluding the record-volume set.
Speed-tier climate where Great Plains Communications, Inc. files
Record-weighted across the 4 states where Great Plains Communications, Inc. files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 16.0% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 8.6 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Great Plains Communications, Inc.'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 Plains Communications, Inc. Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Great Plains Communications, Inc. highlighted
13,513 records · #189 of 2,138
Great Plains Communications, Inc. sits at the top 9% by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 17x the median provider's 781 records.
Coverage Footprint
View all 4 states as a list
Where Great Plains Communications, Inc. Reports the Most
Great Plains Communications, Inc. - top states by reported deployment records
Nebraska leads · 13,423 records
- Nebraska 13,423
- South Dakota 50
- Kansas 38
- Colorado 2
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Nebraska | 13,423 |
| South Dakota | 50 |
| Kansas | 38 |
| Colorado | 2 |
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
Door County Broadband LLC (13,696) · Texas Broadband, Inc. (13,770) · Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation (13,796) · ICON Technologies Inc. (13,930) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Great Plains Communications, Inc.'s footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Great Plains Communications, Inc.'s reported footprint in Nebraska, its largest state by filings (13,423 records). Nebraska state page
- Compare against Door County Broadband LLC, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Door County Broadband LLC
- 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.