Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Data updated June 2026
Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 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
Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 1,915 records behind that footprint. Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. reports localized broadband footprint: 1,915 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 1,915
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #739 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #24 of 37 providers reporting in South Carolina
- rank among providers in South Carolina 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.
Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. state-reach reading
Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. sits in the middle third of Form 477 providers by record volume (329–2,064). Mid-pack filers often mix dense local markets with thin out-of-state blocks under the same holding name.
South Carolina alone accounts for 100.0% of Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.'s filings (1,915 of 1,915), 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-PIEDMONT-RURAL-TELEPHONE- · Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 1,915 records · 1 state
1,915 · RANK-MID · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-SMALL 1,915
- RANK-MID #739
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-MID #24 in South Carolina
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ ImOn Comm.
- MED-ABOVE Above median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: ImOn Communications, LLC (+ 1 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
- Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 1,915
- ImOn Communications, LLC 1,916
- Skyrunner, Inc. 1,911
- Citizens Telephone Cooperative (VA) 1,921
- Cap Rock Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 1,927
Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. filed 1,915 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 1,921 records and 1 states.
Providers near Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. on state reach
Peer filers for Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. 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 (1,915 here).
Speed-tier climate where Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 26.9% 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 Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.'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 Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. highlighted
1,915 records · #739 of 2,138
Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. sits at roughly the 65th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 2.5x the median provider's 781 records.
- South Carolina 1,915
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| South Carolina | 1,915 |
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
ImOn Communications, LLC (1,916) · Skyrunner, Inc. (1,911) · Citizens Telephone Cooperative (VA) (1,921) · Cap Rock Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (1,927) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.'s footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.'s reported footprint in South Carolina, its largest state by filings (1,915 records). South Carolina state page
- Compare against ImOn Communications, LLC, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to ImOn Communications, LLC
- 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.