FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Southern Kansas Telephone Company

Data updated June 2026

Southern Kansas Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 3,504 records behind that footprint. Map the states it covers and how that reach ranks against other Form 477 providers.

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State reach, in one line

Southern Kansas Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 3,504 records behind that footprint. Southern Kansas Telephone Company reports localized broadband footprint: 3,504 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.

3,504
deployment records reported to the FCC
#538 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
1
state/territory with filings
#37 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.

Southern Kansas Telephone Company state-reach reading

Southern Kansas Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 3,504 records behind that footprint.

Among 2,138 Form 477 providers on this site, Southern Kansas Telephone Company 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 100.0% of Southern Kansas Telephone Company's filings (3,504 of 3,504), 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-SOUTHERN-KANSAS-TELEPHONE · Southern Kansas Telephone Company 3,504 records · 1 state

3,504 · RANK-MID · FOOT-LOCAL

  • BOOK-SMALL 3,504
  • RANK-MID #538
  • FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
  • IN-ST-MID #37 in Kansas
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Compass Broadband Net…
  • MED-ABOVE Above median
  • COV-BROAD #488 by states

Nearest record peer: Compass Broadband Network, Inc. ( -6 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 Southern Kansas Telephone Company on state reach

Peer filers for Southern Kansas 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 deployment-record volume

Nearest filers by total Form 477 records (3,504 here).

Compass Broadband Network 3,498 Ozarks WIFI 3,511 Horizon Telcom 3,513 Benton Rural Electric Association 3,517

Speed-tier climate where Southern Kansas Telephone Company files

Record-weighted across the 1 state where Southern Kansas Telephone Company 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 Southern Kansas Telephone Company's retail offers.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 3,504 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 24.5% <3/0.768 16.9% 3/0.768 → 25/3 45.3% 25/3 → 100/20 6.3% 100/20 → 1G 7.1% ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 858 Legacy 591 Standard 1,586 Giga-capable 221 Gigabit+ 248 3,504 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Southern Kansas Telephone Company 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 Southern Kansas Telephone Company Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Southern Kansas Telephone Company highlighted

3,504 records · #538 of 2,138

Southern Kansas Telephone Company sits at roughly the 75th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 4.5x the median provider's 781 records.

Full State Breakdown

State Records
Kansas 3,504

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

Compass Broadband Network, Inc. (3,498) · Ozarks WIFI (3,511) · Horizon Telcom, Inc. (3,513) · Skylink Wireless Internet LLC (3,517) · Form 477 reading guide →

What to do with Southern Kansas Telephone Company'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.