Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative
Data updated June 2026
Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative opens on filing volume: #257 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (9,327 records). Compare its Form 477 record book to peer filers and the states where it reports the most blocks.
Filing volume, in one line
Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative opens on filing volume: #257 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (9,327 records). Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative reports localized broadband footprint: 9,327 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 9,327
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #257 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #19 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.
Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative filing-volume reading
Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative opens on filing volume: #257 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (9,327 records).
Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Paul Bunyan Rural 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.
Minnesota alone accounts for 100.0% of Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative's filings (9,327 of 9,327), 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-PAUL-BUNYAN-RURAL-TELEPHO · Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative 9,327 records · 1 state
9,327 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-SMALL 9,327
- RANK-UPPER #257
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-UPPER #19 in Minnesota
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Douglas Electric Coop…
- MED-10X+ 12× median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Douglas Electric Cooperative Inc. (+ 10 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 11,049,786
- Corpus median 781
- Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative 9,327
- Douglas Electric Coop… 9,337
- Five Area Telephone C… 9,350
- DTC Holding Company 9,379
- WEHCO Video 9,261
Providers near Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative on Form 477 scale
Peer filers for Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative by deployment-record volume first, then state/territory reach (record floor ≥1,000, state floor ≥2). In-state rank tables and the record neighbourhood stay intact.
Similar deployment-record volume
Nearest filers by total Form 477 records (9,327 here).
Speed-tier climate where Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 26.8% 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 Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative'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 Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative highlighted
9,327 records · #257 of 2,138
Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative sits at roughly the 88th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 12x the median provider's 781 records.
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Minnesota | 9,327 |
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
Douglas Electric Cooperative Inc. (9,337) · Five Area Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (9,350) · DTC Holding Company (9,379) · WEHCO Video, Inc. (9,261) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative's reported footprint in Minnesota, its largest state by filings (9,327 records). Minnesota state page
- Compare against Douglas Electric Cooperative Inc., a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Douglas Electric Cooperative Inc.
- 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.