West Iowa Telephone Company
Data updated June 2026
West Iowa Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 1,931 records behind that footprint. Map the states it covers and how that reach ranks against other Form 477 providers.
State reach, in one line
West Iowa Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 1,931 records behind that footprint. West Iowa Telephone Company reports localized broadband footprint: 1,931 Form 477 deployment records across 1 state or territory.
- 1,931
- deployment records reported to the FCC
- #735 of 2,138
- corpus placement by total records
- 1
- state/territory with filings
- #43 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.
West Iowa Telephone Company state-reach reading
West Iowa Telephone Company opens on geographic reach: #488 of 2,138 filers by states with filings (1 state), with 1,931 records behind that footprint.
West Iowa 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.
Iowa alone accounts for 100.0% of West Iowa Telephone Company's filings (1,931 of 1,931), 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-WEST-IOWA-TELEPHONE-COMPA · West Iowa Telephone Company 1,931 records · 1 state
1,931 · RANK-MID · FOOT-LOCAL
- BOOK-SMALL 1,931
- RANK-MID #735
- FOOT-LOCAL 1 state
- IN-ST-UPPER #43 in Iowa
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ LARIAT
- MED-ABOVE Above median
- COV-BROAD #488 by states
Nearest record peer: LARIAT (+ 4 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 11,049,786
- Corpus median 781
- West Iowa Telephone Company 1,931
- LARIAT 1,935
- Cap Rock Telephone Co… 1,927
- Southwest Arkansas Te… 1,941
- Citizens Telephone Co… 1,921
Providers near West Iowa Telephone Company on state reach
Peer filers for West Iowa 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 (1,931 here).
Speed-tier climate where West Iowa Telephone Company files
Record-weighted across the 1 state where West Iowa Telephone Company files, those states' Form 477 maxaddown mix is 20.5% in the 100 Mbps+ tiers, 4.1 pp below the national 24.6% mix. The footprint sits in slower-tier state climates on average; treat this as market context, not West Iowa 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 West Iowa Telephone Company Ranks Nationally
Providers by reported footprint size, West Iowa Telephone Company highlighted
1,931 records · #735 of 2,138
West Iowa Telephone Company sits at roughly the 66th percentile by filing volume among 2,138 FCC Form 477 filers, roughly 2.5x the median provider's 781 records.
Full State Breakdown
| State | Records |
|---|---|
| Iowa | 1,931 |
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
LARIAT (1,935) · Cap Rock Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (1,927) · Southwest Arkansas Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (1,941) · Citizens Telephone Cooperative (VA) (1,921) · Form 477 reading guide →
What to do with West Iowa Telephone Company's footprint
A high record count is filing volume, not a guarantee of service at your address.
- Check West Iowa Telephone Company's reported footprint in Iowa, its largest state by filings (1,931 records). Iowa state page
- Compare against LARIAT, a similarly-sized filer, before assuming this footprint is unique. Compare to LARIAT
- 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.