Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc.
Data updated June 2026
Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. 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
Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 355 records behind that footprint. Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. reports localized broadband footprint: 355 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 355
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #1,390 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #69 of 104 providers reporting in Indiana
- rank among providers in Indiana 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.
Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. state-reach reading
Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. 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.
Indiana alone accounts for 100.0% of Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc.'s filings (355 of 355), 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-SWEETSER-RURAL-TELEPHONE- · Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. 355 records · 1 state
355 · RANK-LOWER · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-MICRO 355
- RANK-LOWER #1,390
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-MID #69 in Indiana
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ ANF Investments
- MED-BELOW Below median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: ANF Investments, 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
- Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. 355
- ANF Investments, LLC 354
- Emily Cooperative Telephone Company 354
- Reinbeck Municipal Telecommunications Utility 354
- La Porte City Telephone Company 358
Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. among its record-volume peers
Filing volume alone does not predict state reach: Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. and its 6 nearest record-volume peers each cover a different number of states.
Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. vs. its 6 nearest record-volume peers
A crawlable text summary: Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. filed 355 records across 1 state, against a peer-group median of 354 records and 1 states.
Speed-tier climate where Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 22.5% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, within 3 pp of the national 24.6% mix. The footprint climate tracks the country average; it still is not Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc.'s own speed claim.
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 Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. highlighted
355 records · #1,390 of 2,138
Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc. sits at roughly the 35th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 2.2x smaller than the median provider's 781 records.
- Indiana 355
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Indiana | 355 |
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
ANF Investments, LLC (354) · Emily Cooperative Telephone Company (354) · Reinbeck Municipal Telecommunications Utility (354) · La Porte City Telephone Company (358) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc.'s footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check Sweetser Rural Telephone Company, Inc.'s reported footprint in Indiana, its largest state by filings (355 records). Indiana state page
- Compare against ANF Investments, LLC, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to ANF Investments, 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.