FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Spencer Municipal Communications Utility

Data updated June 2026

Spencer Municipal Communications Utility opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 1,305 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

Spencer Municipal Communications Utility opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 1,305 records behind that footprint. Spencer Municipal Communications Utility reports localized broadband footprint: 1,305 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.

1,305
deployment records reported to the FCC
#885 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
1
state/territory with filings
#63 of 207 providers reporting in Iowa
rank among providers in Iowa alone

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

Spencer Municipal Communications Utility state-reach reading

Spencer Municipal Communications Utility opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 1,305 records behind that footprint.

Spencer Municipal Communications Utility 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.

Iowa alone accounts for 100.0% of Spencer Municipal Communications Utility's filings (1,305 of 1,305), 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-SPENCER-MUNICIPAL-COMMUNI · Spencer Municipal Communications Utility 1,305 records · 1 state

1,305 · RANK-MID · FOOT-LOCAL

  • BOOK-SMALL 1,305
  • RANK-MID #885
  • FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
  • IN-ST-MID #63 in Iowa
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bandera Electric Coop…
  • MED-ABOVE Above median
  • COV-BROAD #488 by states

Nearest record peer: Bandera Electric Cooperative, Inc. ( -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.

Providers near Spencer Municipal Communications Utility on state reach

Peer filers for Spencer Municipal Communications Utility 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 (1,305 here).

Bandera Electric Co-op 1,304 Cambridge Tel. Co. 1,303 Axxis Comm./Gorge Networks 1,301 DSI Stream 1,301

Speed-tier climate where Spencer Municipal Communications Utility files

Record-weighted across the 1 state where Spencer Municipal Communications Utility files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 20.5% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 4.0 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Spencer Municipal Communications Utility's retail offers.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 1,305 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 31.7% <3/0.768 9.1% 3/0.768 → 25/3 38.6% 25/3 → 100/20 13.4% 100/20 → 1G 7.1% ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 414 Legacy 119 Standard 504 Giga-capable 175 Gigabit+ 93 1,305 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Spencer Municipal Communications Utility 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 Spencer Municipal Communications Utility Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Spencer Municipal Communications Utility highlighted

1,305 records · #885 of 2,138

Spencer Municipal Communications Utility sits at roughly the 59th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 1.7x the median provider's 781 records.

Full State Breakdown

State Records
Iowa 1,305

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

Bandera Electric Cooperative, Inc. (1,304) · Cambridge Telephone Company, Inc. (1,303) · DSI Stream (1,301) · Axxis Communications/Gorge Networks (1,301) · Form 477 reading guide →

What to do with Spencer Municipal Communications Utility'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.