Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech
Data updated June 2026
Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 12,666 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. Inc., dba Nex-Tech opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 12,666 records behind that footprint. Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech reports localized broadband footprint: 12,666 Form 477 deployment records across 2 states and territories.
- 12,666
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #199 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 2
- states and territories with filings
- #14 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. Inc., dba Nex-Tech state-reach reading
Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech opens on geographic reach: #187 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (2 states), with 12,666 records behind that footprint.
Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., 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 95.5% of Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech's filings (12,099 of 12,666), 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. Inc., dba Nex-Tech 12,666 records · 2 states
12,666 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-UNK
- BOOK-MID 12,666
- RANK-UPPER #199
- FOOT-UNK Footprint pending
- IN-ST-UPPER #14 in Kansas
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Midwest Telecom of Am…
- MED-10X+ 16× median
- COV-BROAD #187 by states
Nearest record peer: Midwest Telecom of America, Inc. (+ 78 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
- Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech 12,666
- Midwest Telecom of Am… 12,744
- InfoWest 12,525
- SRT Comm. 12,501
- Massillon Cable TV 12,856
Providers near Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech on state reach
Peer filers for Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., 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 (12,666 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. Inc., dba Nex-Tech files
Record-weighted across the 2 states where Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 13.5% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 11.1 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. Inc., dba Nex-Tech'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 Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech highlighted
12,666 records · #199 of 2,138
Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech sits at the top 9% by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 16x the median provider's 781 records.
Coverage Footprint
View all 2 states as a list
Where Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech Reports the Most
Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., dba Nex-Tech - top states by reported deployment records
Kansas leads · 12,099 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
Midwest Telecom of America, Inc. (12,744) · InfoWest, Inc. (12,525) · SRT Communications, Inc. (12,501) · Massillon Cable TV, Inc. (12,856) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Rural Telephone Service Co. Inc., 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. Inc., dba Nex-Tech's reported footprint in Kansas, its largest state by filings (12,099 records). Kansas state page
- Compare against Midwest Telecom of America, Inc., a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Midwest Telecom of America, 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.