Interactive tools · FCC Form 477

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Name: PlainBroadband Tools Form 477 Extract
Creator: PlainBroadband
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Free, no-sign-up tools that turn the federal deployment record into an answer for your own household, benchmarked against the real national FCC Form 477 distribution.

Download the Form 477 state landscape extract cited on this page: plainbroadband-form477-state-landscape.csv (FCC public records · public domain).

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What's in the archive

Every provider has a record, few carry a national footprint

All 2,138 providers in this FCC Form 477 registry filed at least one deployment record. Most file in a single state; the reach tiers below show how quickly that share thins out toward genuinely regional and national carriers.

Filed a Form 477 record 100% 2,138

Every provider in this registry.
Serves 2+ states 22.8% 487

Files deployment records outside a single home state.
Serves 5+ states 3.4% 72

A genuinely regional or larger footprint.
Serves 10+ states 1.6% 34

Reaches most of a U.S. region.
Serves 20+ states 0.7% 15

National or near-national carriers.

Share of the 2,138-provider FCC Form 477 registry reaching each state-count tier. Source: FCC Form 477 fixed broadband deployment data, June 2020 status.