Rural Broadband, LLC
Data updated June 2026
Rural Broadband, LLC 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
Rural Broadband, LLC opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 491 records behind that footprint. Rural Broadband, LLC reports localized broadband footprint: 491 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 491
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #1,271 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #32 of 51 providers reporting in Montana
- rank among providers in Montana 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. Rural Broadband, LLC filed 561 Form 477 records; 491 (87.5%) are flagged as offered to consumers, and only those are counted here. This provider's record count, its rank, and the peer figures below are therefore a smaller subset of what it filed than for a provider with no notice like this. How the count is scoped.
Rural Broadband, LLC state-reach reading
Rural Broadband, LLC 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.
Montana alone accounts for 100.0% of Rural Broadband, LLC's filings (491 of 491), 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-RURAL-BROADBAND-LLC · Rural Broadband, LLC 491 records · 1 state
491 · RANK-MID · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-MICRO 491
- RANK-MID #1,271
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-MID #32 in Montana
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Whitewater Wideband
- MED-BELOW Below median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: Whitewater Wideband 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
- Rural Broadband, LLC 491
- Whitewater Wideband LLC 492
- Hillsboro Telephone Company, Inc. 492
- Burlington Telecom 490
- DirectLink LLC 489
Rural Broadband, LLC among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Rural Broadband, LLC and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Rural Broadband, LLC vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Rural Broadband, LLC filed 491 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 491 records and 1 states.
Speed-tier climate where Rural Broadband, LLC files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Rural Broadband, LLC files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 16.7% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 7.9 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Rural Broadband, LLC'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 Rural Broadband, LLC Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Rural Broadband, LLC highlighted
491 records · #1,271 of 2,138
Rural Broadband, LLC sits at roughly the 41st percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 1.6x smaller than the median provider's 781 records.
- Montana 491
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Montana | 491 |
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
Whitewater Wideband LLC (492) · Hillsboro Telephone Company, Inc. (492) · Burlington Telecom (490) · DirectLink LLC (489) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Rural Broadband, LLC's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Rural Broadband, LLC's reported footprint in Montana, its largest state by filings (491 records). Montana state page
- Compare against Whitewater Wideband LLC, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Whitewater Wideband 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.