FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Santel Communications Cooperative

Data updated June 2026

Santel Communications Cooperative opens on filing volume: #287 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (8,012 records). Compare its Form 477 record book to peer filers and the states where it reports the most blocks.

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Filing volume, in one line

Santel Communications Cooperative opens on filing volume: #287 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (8,012 records). Santel Communications Cooperative reports localized broadband footprint: 8,012 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.

8,012
deployment records reported to the FCC
#287 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
1
state/territory with filings
#11 of 58 providers reporting in South Dakota
rank among providers in South Dakota alone

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

Santel Communications Cooperative filing-volume reading

Santel Communications Cooperative opens on filing volume: #287 of 2,138 of 2,138 Form 477 filers by deployment records (8,012 records).

Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Santel Communications Cooperative 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.

South Dakota alone accounts for 100.0% of Santel Communications Cooperative's filings (8,012 of 8,012), 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-SANTEL-COMMUNICATIONS-COO · Santel Communications Cooperative 8,012 records · 1 state

8,012 · RANK-UPPER · FOOT-LOCAL

  • BOOK-SMALL 8,012
  • RANK-UPPER #287
  • FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
  • IN-ST-UPPER #11 in South Dakota
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Roberts County Teleph…
  • MED-10X+ 10× median
  • COV-BROAD #488 by states

Nearest record peer: Roberts County Telephone Cooperative Association (+ 2 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 Santel Communications Cooperative on Form 477 scale

Peer filers for Santel Communications Cooperative by deployment-record volume first, then state/territory reach (record floor ≥1,000, state floor ≥2). In-state rank tables and the record neighbourhood stay intact.

Similar deployment-record volume

Nearest filers by total Form 477 records (8,012 here).

Roberts County Tel. Co-op Association 8,014 Kentec Comm. 7,989 Eastlight LC 8,063 Poka Lambro Tel. Co-op 8,065

Speed-tier climate where Santel Communications Cooperative files

Record-weighted across the 1 state where Santel Communications Cooperative files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 18.6% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 5.9 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Santel Communications Cooperative's retail offers.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 8,011 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 20.5% <3/0.768 3/0.768 → 25/3 55.1% 25/3 → 100/20 10.1% 100/20 → 1G 8.5% ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 1,640 Legacy 462 Standard 4,416 Giga-capable 812 Gigabit+ 681 8,011 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Santel Communications Cooperative 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 Santel Communications Cooperative Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Santel Communications Cooperative highlighted

8,012 records · #287 of 2,138

Santel Communications Cooperative sits at roughly the 87th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 10x the median provider's 781 records.

Full State Breakdown

State Records
South Dakota 8,012

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

Roberts County Telephone Cooperative Association (8,014) · Kentec Communications, Inc. (7,989) · Eastlight LC (8,063) · Poka Lambro Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (8,065) · Form 477 reading guide →

What to do with Santel Communications Cooperative's footprint

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

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.