Mid Century Telephone Co-operative
Data updated June 2026
Mid Century Telephone Co-operative filed with the FCC across 1 state 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
Mid Century Telephone Co-operative opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 3,540 records behind that footprint. Mid Century Telephone Co-operative reports localized broadband footprint: 3,540 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 3,540
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #531 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #37 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.
Record scope. Counts are Form 477 records flagged as offered to consumers; at least 90% of this provider's filings are. How the count is scoped.
Mid Century Telephone Co-operative state-reach reading
Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Mid Century Telephone Co-operative 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.
Illinois alone accounts for 100.0% of Mid Century Telephone Co-operative's filings (3,540 of 3,540), 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-MID-CENTURY-TELEPHONE-CO- · Mid Century Telephone Co-operative 3,540 records · 1 state
3,540 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-SMALL 3,540
- RANK-UPPER #531
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-MID #37 in Illinois
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Heart of Iowa Comm. C…
- MED-ABOVE Above median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative (+ 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, Inc. 11,049,786
- Corpus median 781
- Mid Century Telephone Co-operative 3,540
- Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative 3,543
- Community Cable Television Agency of O'Brien County 3,535
- C&W Enterprises, Inc. 3,530
- Small Business Solutions Group LLC 3,555
Mid Century Telephone Co-operative among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Mid Century Telephone Co-operative and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Mid Century Telephone Co-operative vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Mid Century Telephone Co-operative filed 3,540 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 3,543 records and 1 states.
Providers near Mid Century Telephone Co-operative on state reach
Peer filers for Mid Century Telephone Co-operative 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 (3,540 here).
Speed-tier climate where Mid Century Telephone Co-operative files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Mid Century Telephone Co-operative files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 21.9% 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 Mid Century Telephone Co-operative's own speed claim.
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 Mid Century Telephone Co-operative Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Mid Century Telephone Co-operative highlighted
3,540 records · #531 of 2,138
Mid Century Telephone Co-operative 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.
- Illinois 3,540
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Illinois | 3,540 |
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
Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative (3,543) · Community Cable Television Agency of O'Brien County (3,535) · C&W Enterprises, Inc. (3,530) · Small Business Solutions Group LLC (3,555) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Mid Century Telephone Co-operative's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Mid Century Telephone Co-operative's reported footprint in Illinois, its largest state by filings (3,540 records). Illinois state page
- Compare against Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative
- 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.