Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company
Data updated June 2026
Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company 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
Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 86 records behind that footprint. Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company reports localized broadband footprint: 86 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 86
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #1,822 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #96 of 114 providers reporting in Minnesota
- rank among providers in Minnesota 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.
Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company state-reach reading
Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company 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.
Minnesota alone accounts for 100.0% of Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company's filings (86 of 86), 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-NORTHERN-TELEPHONE-COMPAN · Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company 86 records · 1 state
86 · RANK-LOWER · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-TRACE 86
- RANK-LOWER #1,822
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-MID #96 in Minnesota
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Midwest Connections
- MED-BELOW Below median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Midwest Connections (+ 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.
- #1 filer · ViaSat, Inc. 11,049,786
- Corpus median 781
- Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company 86
- Midwest Connections 86
- Consolidated Smart Broadband Systems, LLC 86
- Fiber Connect, LLC. 87
- Golden Communications LLC 85
Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company filed 86 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 86 records and 1 states.
Speed-tier climate where Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 27.9% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 3.3 pp above the national 24.6% mix. That is the climate of the markets this filer reports in, not Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company's own advertised 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 Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company highlighted
86 records · #1,822 of 2,138
Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company sits at roughly the 15th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 9.1x smaller than the median provider's 781 records.
- Minnesota 86
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Minnesota | 86 |
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
Midwest Connections (86) · Consolidated Smart Broadband Systems, LLC (86) · Fiber Connect, LLC. (87) · Golden Communications LLC (85) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Northern Telephone Company/Wilderness Valley Telephone Company's reported footprint in Minnesota, its largest state by filings (86 records). Minnesota state page
- Compare against Midwest Connections, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Midwest Connections
- 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.