FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Lightwave Communications, LLC

Data updated June 2026

Lightwave Communications, LLC opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 142 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

Lightwave Communications, LLC opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 142 records behind that footprint. Lightwave Communications, LLC reports localized broadband footprint: 142 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.

142
deployment records reported to the FCC
#1,704 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
1
state/territory with filings
#90 of 123 providers reporting in Missouri
rank among providers in Missouri alone

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

Lightwave Communications, LLC state-reach reading

Lightwave Communications, LLC opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 142 records behind that footprint.

Lightwave Communications, LLC 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.

Missouri alone accounts for 100.0% of Lightwave Communications, LLC's filings (142 of 142), 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-LIGHTWAVE-COMMUNICATIONS- · Lightwave Communications, LLC 142 records · 1 state

142 · RANK-LOWER · FOOT-LOCAL

  • BOOK-MICRO 142
  • RANK-LOWER #1,704
  • FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
  • IN-ST-MID #90 in Missouri
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beresford Municipal T…
  • MED-BELOW Below median
  • COV-BROAD #488 by states

Nearest record peer: Beresford Municipal Telephone Company (+ 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 Lightwave Communications, LLC files

Record-weighted across the 1 state where Lightwave Communications, LLC files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 20.4% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 4.2 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Lightwave Communications, LLC's retail offers.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 142 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 24.6% <3/0.768 17.6% 3/0.768 → 25/3 37.3% 25/3 → 100/20 16.2% 100/20 → 1G ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 35 Legacy 25 Standard 53 Giga-capable 23 Gigabit+ 6 142 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Lightwave Communications, LLC 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 Lightwave Communications, LLC Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Lightwave Communications, LLC highlighted

142 records · #1,704 of 2,138

Lightwave Communications, LLC sits at roughly the 20th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 5.5x smaller than the median provider's 781 records.

Full State Breakdown

State Records
Missouri 142

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

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What to do with Lightwave Communications, LLC'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.