FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Highland Communication Services

Data updated June 2026

Highland Communication Services opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 243 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

Highland Communication Services opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 243 records behind that footprint. Highland Communication Services reports localized broadband footprint: 243 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.

243
deployment records reported to the FCC
#1,536 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
1
state/territory with filings
#87 of 143 providers reporting in Illinois
rank among providers in Illinois alone

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

Highland Communication Services state-reach reading

Highland Communication Services opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 243 records behind that footprint.

Highland Communication Services sits in the lower third of Form 477 providers by record volume (< 329). Thin filing books still matter when they dominate one state or a niche technology pocket rather than a national residential footprint.

Illinois alone accounts for 100.0% of Highland Communication Services's filings (243 of 243), 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-HIGHLAND-COMMUNICATION-SE · Highland Communication Services 243 records · 1 state

243 · RANK-LOWER · FOOT-LOCAL

  • BOOK-MICRO 243
  • RANK-LOWER #1,536
  • FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
  • IN-ST-MID #87 in Illinois
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Foothills Telephone C…
  • MED-BELOW Below median
  • COV-BROAD #488 by states

Nearest record peer: Foothills Telephone Cooperative Corp., Inc. (+ 0 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.

Speed-tier climate where Highland Communication Services files

Record-weighted across the 1 state where Highland Communication Services files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 21.8% 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 Highland Communication Services's own speed claim.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 243 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 20.2% <3/0.768 19.8% 3/0.768 → 25/3 38.3% 25/3 → 100/20 17.3% 100/20 → 1G ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 49 Legacy 48 Standard 93 Giga-capable 42 Gigabit+ 11 243 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Highland Communication Services 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 Highland Communication Services Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Highland Communication Services highlighted

243 records · #1,536 of 2,138

Highland Communication Services sits at roughly the 28th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 3.2x smaller than the median provider's 781 records.

Full State Breakdown

State Records
Illinois 243

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

Foothills Telephone Cooperative Corp., Inc. (243) · Salsgiver, Inc. (243) · Flatwater Wireless (244) · Encore Business Systems (245) · Form 477 reading guide →

What to do with Highland Communication Services'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.