FCC Form 477 1 state June 2020 data

Vinton Municipal Communications Utility

Data updated June 2026

Vinton Municipal Communications Utility opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 118 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

Vinton Municipal Communications Utility opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 118 records behind that footprint. Vinton Municipal Communications Utility reports localized broadband footprint: 118 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.

118
deployment records reported to the FCC
#1,753 of 2,138
corpus placement by total records
1
state/territory with filings
#178 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.

Vinton Municipal Communications Utility state-reach reading

Vinton Municipal Communications Utility opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 118 records behind that footprint.

Vinton Municipal Communications Utility sits in the lower third of Form 477 providers by record volume (< 329). Thin filing books still matter when they dominate one state or a niche technology pocket rather than a national residential footprint.

Iowa alone accounts for 100.0% of Vinton Municipal Communications Utility's filings (118 of 118), 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-VINTON-MUNICIPAL-COMMUNIC · Vinton Municipal Communications Utility 118 records · 1 state

118 · RANK-LOWER · FOOT-LOCAL

  • BOOK-MICRO 118
  • RANK-LOWER #1,753
  • FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
  • IN-ST-MID #178 in Iowa
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Tsunami-Wireless
  • MED-BELOW Below median
  • COV-BROAD #488 by states

Nearest record peer: Tsunami-Wireless (+ 0 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.

Speed-tier climate where Vinton Municipal Communications Utility files

Record-weighted across the 1 state where Vinton Municipal Communications Utility files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 20.3% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 4.2 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not Vinton Municipal Communications Utility's retail offers.

Federal broadband speed-tier distribution Horizontal bar showing the share of 118 FCC Form 477 deployment filings across the five federal speed-threshold bands. 31.4% <3/0.768 9.3% 3/0.768 → 25/3 39.0% 25/3 → 100/20 13.6% 100/20 → 1G 6.8% ≥1G/100 Sub-broadband 37 Legacy 11 Standard 46 Giga-capable 16 Gigabit+ 8 118 filings · 5 federal speed-threshold bands
Record-weighted Form 477 maxaddown mix across 1 footprint state (state climates, not Vinton 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 Vinton Municipal Communications Utility Ranks Nationally

Providers by reported footprint size, Vinton Municipal Communications Utility highlighted

118 records · #1,753 of 2,138

Vinton Municipal Communications Utility sits at roughly the 18th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 6.6x smaller than the median provider's 781 records.

Full State Breakdown

State Records
Iowa 118

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

Tsunami-Wireless (118) · HCI Telcom Inc. (118) · Atkins Telephone Company (118) · SWIFT Services LLC (118) · Form 477 reading guide →

What to do with Vinton Municipal Communications Utility's footprint

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

  • Check Vinton Municipal Communications Utility's reported footprint in Iowa, its largest state by filings (118 records). Iowa state page
  • Compare against Tsunami-Wireless, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to Tsunami-Wireless
  • 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.