Ringsted Telephone Company
Data updated June 2026
Ringsted Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 306 records behind that footprint. Map the states it covers and how that reach ranks against other Form 477 providers.
State reach, in one line
Ringsted Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 306 records behind that footprint. Ringsted Telephone Company reports localized broadband footprint: 306 Form 477 deployment records across 2 states and territories.
- 306
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #1,449 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 2
- states and territories with filings
- #133 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.
Ringsted Telephone Company state-reach reading
Ringsted Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 306 records behind that footprint.
Ringsted 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.
Iowa alone accounts for 99.7% of Ringsted Telephone Company's filings (305 of 306), 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-RINGSTED-TELEPHONE-COMPAN · Ringsted Telephone Company 306 records · 2 states
306 · RANK-LOWER · FOOT-UNK
- BOOK-MICRO 306
- RANK-LOWER #1,449
- FOOT-UNK Footprint pending
- IN-ST-MID #133 in Iowa
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Woodhull Comm.
- MED-BELOW Below median
- COV-BROAD #187 by states
Nearest record peer: Woodhull Communications, Inc. (+ 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 11,049,786
- Corpus median 781
- Ringsted Telephone Company 306
- Woodhull Comm. 307
- Arthur Mutual Telepho… 305
- Titonka Telephone Com… 305
- Red River Cellular Te… 305
Providers near Ringsted Telephone Company on state reach
Peer filers for Ringsted Telephone Company 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 state/territory reach
Nearest filers by states with filings (2 here), excluding the record-volume set.
Speed-tier climate where Ringsted Telephone Company files
Record-weighted across the 2 states where Ringsted Telephone Company files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 20.6% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 4.0 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Ringsted Telephone Company'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 Ringsted Telephone Company Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Ringsted Telephone Company highlighted
306 records · #1,449 of 2,138
Ringsted Telephone Company sits at roughly the 32nd percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 2.6x smaller than the median provider's 781 records.
Coverage Footprint
View all 2 states as a list
Where Ringsted Telephone Company Reports the Most
Ringsted Telephone Company - top states by reported deployment records
Iowa leads · 305 records
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
Woodhull Communications, Inc. (307) · Arthur Mutual Telephone Company (305) · Titonka Telephone Company (305) · Red River Cellular Telephone Corporation (305) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Ringsted Telephone Company's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Ringsted Telephone Company's reported footprint in Iowa, its largest state by filings (305 records). Iowa state page
- Compare against Woodhull Communications, Inc., a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Woodhull Communications, 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.