Northwest Telephone Cooperative
Data updated June 2026
Northwest Telephone Cooperative 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
Northwest Telephone Cooperative opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 4,022 records behind that footprint. Northwest Telephone Cooperative reports localized broadband footprint: 4,022 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 4,022
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #489 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #23 of 207 providers reporting in Iowa
- rank among providers in Iowa 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.
Northwest Telephone Cooperative state-reach reading
Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Northwest Telephone Cooperative 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.
Iowa alone accounts for 100.0% of Northwest Telephone Cooperative's filings (4,022 of 4,022), 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-NORTHWEST-TELEPHONE-COOPE · Northwest Telephone Cooperative 4,022 records · 1 state
4,022 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-SMALL 4,022
- RANK-UPPER #489
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-UPPER #23 in Iowa
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sail Internet
- MED-ABOVE Above median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Sail Internet (+ 15 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
- Northwest Telephone Cooperative 4,022
- Sail Internet 4,037
- South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation 4,039
- Utah Broadband 4,040
- Sandhill Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 4,041
Northwest Telephone Cooperative among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Northwest Telephone Cooperative and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Northwest Telephone Cooperative vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Northwest Telephone Cooperative filed 4,022 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 4,040 records and 1 states.
Providers near Northwest Telephone Cooperative on state reach
Peer filers for Northwest Telephone Cooperative 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 (4,022 here).
Speed-tier climate where Northwest Telephone Cooperative files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Northwest Telephone Cooperative files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 20.5% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 4.1 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Northwest Telephone Cooperative's retail offers.
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 Northwest Telephone Cooperative Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Northwest Telephone Cooperative highlighted
4,022 records · #489 of 2,138
Northwest Telephone Cooperative sits at roughly the 77th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 5.1x the median provider's 781 records.
- Iowa 4,022
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Iowa | 4,022 |
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
Sail Internet (4,037) · South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation (4,039) · Utah Broadband (4,040) · Sandhill Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (4,041) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Northwest Telephone Cooperative's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Northwest Telephone Cooperative's reported footprint in Iowa, its largest state by filings (4,022 records). Iowa state page
- Compare against Sail Internet, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Sail Internet
- 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.