Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative
Data updated June 2026
Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 3,543 records behind that footprint. Map the states it covers and how that reach ranks against other Form 477 providers.
State reach, in one line
Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 3,543 records behind that footprint. Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative reports localized broadband footprint: 3,543 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 3,543
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #530 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #26 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.
Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative state-reach reading
Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 3,543 records behind that footprint.
Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative 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.
Iowa alone accounts for 100.0% of Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative's filings (3,543 of 3,543), 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-HEART-OF-IOWA-COMMUNICATI · Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative 3,543 records · 1 state
3,543 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-SMALL 3,543
- RANK-UPPER #530
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-UPPER #26 in Iowa
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mid Century Telephone…
- MED-ABOVE Above median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Mid Century Telephone Co-operative ( -3 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
- Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative 3,543
- Mid Century Telephone… 3,540
- Community Cable Telev… 3,535
- Small Business Soluti… 3,555
- B&B Comm. 3,556
Providers near Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative on state reach
Peer filers for Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative 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 (3,543 here).
Speed-tier climate where Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 20.5% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 4.1 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative'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 Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative highlighted
3,543 records · #530 of 2,138
Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative sits at roughly the 75th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 4.5x the median provider's 781 records.
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Iowa | 3,543 |
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
Mid Century Telephone Co-operative (3,540) · Community Cable Television Agency of O'Brien County (3,535) · Small Business Solutions Group LLC (3,555) · B&B Communications, Ltd. (3,556) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative's reported footprint in Iowa, its largest state by filings (3,543 records). Iowa state page
- Compare against Mid Century Telephone Co-operative, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Mid Century Telephone Co-operative
- 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.