Southern Montana Telephone Company
Data updated June 2026
Southern Montana Telephone Company 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
Southern Montana Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 1,677 records behind that footprint. Southern Montana Telephone Company reports localized broadband footprint: 1,677 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 1,677
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #786 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #18 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. Counts are Form 477 records flagged as offered to consumers; at least 90% of this provider's filings are. How the count is scoped.
Southern Montana Telephone Company state-reach reading
Southern Montana Telephone Company 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 Southern Montana Telephone Company's filings (1,677 of 1,677), 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-MONTANA-TELEPHON · Southern Montana Telephone Company 1,677 records · 1 state
1,677 · RANK-MID · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-SMALL 1,677
- RANK-MID #786
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-MID #18 in Montana
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ BEH Comm.
- MED-ABOVE Above median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: BEH Communications, 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
- Southern Montana Telephone Company 1,677
- BEH Communications, LLC 1,676
- Greenlight Networks, LLC 1,680
- B2X Online, Inc. 1,686
- Day Management Corporation 1,666
Southern Montana Telephone Company among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Southern Montana Telephone Company and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Southern Montana Telephone Company vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Southern Montana Telephone Company filed 1,677 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 1,677 records and 1 states.
Providers near Southern Montana Telephone Company on state reach
Peer filers for Southern Montana 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 (1,677 here).
Speed-tier climate where Southern Montana Telephone Company files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Southern Montana Telephone Company files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 16.6% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 8.0 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Southern Montana Telephone Company'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 Southern Montana Telephone Company Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Southern Montana Telephone Company highlighted
1,677 records · #786 of 2,138
Southern Montana Telephone Company sits at roughly the 63rd percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 2.1x the median provider's 781 records.
- Montana 1,677
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Montana | 1,677 |
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
BEH Communications, LLC (1,676) · Greenlight Networks, LLC (1,680) · B2X Online, Inc. (1,686) · Day Management Corporation (1,666) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Southern Montana Telephone Company's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Southern Montana Telephone Company's reported footprint in Montana, its largest state by filings (1,677 records). Montana state page
- Compare against BEH Communications, LLC, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to BEH Communications, 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.