FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD)

Data updated June 2026

Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 2,695 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

Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 2,695 records behind that footprint. Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) reports localized broadband footprint: 2,695 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.

2,695
deployment records reported to the FCC
#609 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
1
state/territory with filings
#18 of 58 providers reporting in South Dakota
rank among providers in South Dakota alone

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

Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) state-reach reading

Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 2,695 records behind that footprint.

Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) 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.

South Dakota alone accounts for 100.0% of Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD)'s filings (2,695 of 2,695), 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-MIDSTATE-COMMUNICATIONS-I · Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) 2,695 records · 1 state

2,695 · RANK-MID · FOOT-LOCAL

  • BOOK-SMALL 2,695
  • RANK-MID #609
  • FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
  • IN-ST-MID #18 in South Dakota
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Northern Arapaho Trib…
  • MED-ABOVE Above median
  • COV-BROAD #488 by states

Nearest record peer: Northern Arapaho Tribal Industries (+ 5 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.

Providers near Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) on state reach

Peer filers for Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) 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 (2,695 here).

Northern Arapaho Tribal Industries 2,700 Plant Tel. Co. 2,709 Margaretville Tel. Co. 2,679 Goldfield Tel. Co. 2,713

Speed-tier climate where Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) files

Record-weighted across the 1 state where Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 18.6% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 6.0 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD)'s retail offers.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 2,695 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 20.5% <3/0.768 3/0.768 → 25/3 55.1% 25/3 → 100/20 10.1% 100/20 → 1G 8.5% ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 552 Legacy 155 Standard 1,486 Giga-capable 273 Gigabit+ 229 2,695 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) 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 Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) highlighted

2,695 records · #609 of 2,138

Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD) sits at roughly the 72nd percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 3.5x the median provider's 781 records.

Full State Breakdown

State Records
South Dakota 2,695

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

Northern Arapaho Tribal Industries (2,700) · Plant Telephone Company (2,709) · Margaretville Telephone Company, Inc. (2,679) · Goldfield Telephone Company (2,713) · Form 477 reading guide →

What to do with Midstate Communications, Inc. (SD)'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.