FCC Form 477 2 states June 2020 data

Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech

Data updated June 2026

Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 11,515 records behind that footprint. Map the states it covers and how that reach ranks against other Form 477 providers.

State reach, in one line

Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 11,515 records behind that footprint. Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech reports localized broadband footprint: 11,515 Form 477 deployment records across 2 states and territories.

11,515
deployment records reported to the FCC
#217 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
2
states and territories with filings
#15 of 108 providers reporting in Kansas
rank among providers in Kansas alone

Form 477 records count census blocks a provider reports it can serve, not subscribers or homes connected, a measure of reported reach.

Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech state-reach reading

Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 11,515 records behind that footprint.

Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech 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.

Kansas alone accounts for 99.2% of Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech's filings (11,423 of 11,515), 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-TELEPHONE-SERVICE-C · Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech 11,515 records · 2 states

11,515 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-UNK

  • BOOK-MID 11,515
  • RANK-UPPER #217
  • FOOT-UNK Footprint pending
  • IN-ST-UPPER #15 in Kansas
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ FireServe
  • MED-10X+ 15× median
  • COV-BROAD #187 by states

Nearest record peer: FireServe, LLC (+ 30 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.

Providers near Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech on state reach

Peer filers for Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech 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 (11,515 here).

Similar state/territory reach

Nearest filers by states with filings (2 here), excluding the record-volume set.

Speed-tier climate where Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech files

Record-weighted across the 2 states where Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 13.4% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 11.2 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech's retail offers.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 11,515 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 24.5% <3/0.768 16.9% 3/0.768 → 25/3 45.2% 25/3 → 100/20 6.4% 100/20 → 1G 7.0% ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 2,821 Legacy 1,942 Standard 5,208 Giga-capable 733 Gigabit+ 811 11,515 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 2 footprint states (state climates, not Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech retail speeds)

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 Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech highlighted

11,515 records · #217 of 2,138

Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech sits at the top 10% by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 15x the median provider's 781 records.

Coverage Footprint

Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech - reported deployment records by state (FCC Form 477)
AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
UT
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NV
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
HI
TX
FL
Scale: 92–2K 2K–5K 5K–7K 7K–9K 9K–11K
View all 2 states as a list
  1. Kansas: 11K
  2. Nebraska: 92

Where Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech Reports the Most

Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech - top states by reported deployment records

Kansas leads · 11,423 records

1. Kansas: 11,4231. Kansas11,4232. Nebraska: 922. Nebraska92

Full State Breakdown

State Records
Kansas 11,423
Nebraska 92

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

FireServe, LLC (11,545) · Gardonville Cooperative Telephone Association (11,553) · Worldwide Technologies, Inc. (11,587) · Midwest Mobile Radio (11,435) · Form 477 reading guide →

What to do with Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech's footprint

A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.

  • Check Rural Telephone Service Co dba Nex-Tech's reported footprint in Kansas, its largest state by filings (11,423 records). Kansas state page
  • Compare against FireServe, LLC, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to FireServe, 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.