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Your operator. In perspective.
Understand your reported footprint, the networks you overlap with, and your position among other operators. Explore the evidence behind the company. The directory covers every FCC-registered communications provider; full footprint analysis covers those that report fixed broadband availability.
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Select an operator to explore its brands, technologies, state footprint and address-level competition. Each measure includes its scope and reporting date. Companies registered with the FCC that report no broadband network, such as cloud calling providers, are searchable too, as provider records.
The evidence behind the profile
Sources & methodology
What is measured
Provider-reported fixed broadband availability from the FCC Broadband Data Collection. Availability is not subscriber count, market share, revenue or measured service quality.
Company identity
A profile follows one FCC provider ID. Filed brands are shown where published. Affiliates and acquisitions under other IDs are not consolidated; ownership is described only where reviewed.
Different measures, different scopes
Technology rows can overlap and must not be summed. State coverage uses residential-unit estimates. Competition counts distinct qualifying residential locations at 100/20 Mbps and excludes satellite and CT, DC, HI and RI. Metro position is census-block co-presence inside the blocks the operator serves, which is a coarser test than the address-level competition measure.
Reading change and comparisons
Only explicitly comparable reporting periods contribute to change. Filings, entity changes and denominator revisions can affect movement. Similar reported scale does not establish a strategic peer.
Operator profiles and provider records
An operator profile covers a company that reports fixed broadband availability to the FCC. A provider record covers one that is registered with the FCC as a communications provider (FCC Form 499) but reports no broadband network, such as a cloud calling provider, so there is no footprint to analyse. Registration shows the FCC’s carrier classification and where a company may sell, not where it has a network. Status is the FCC’s own note; a company no longer active in Form 499 may still operate other services.
Financing evidence
Public sources only: debt held by registered funds (SEC Form N-PORT), loans held by private-credit funds (SEC filings), company-wide capital expenditure (SEC XBRL) and researched financing announcements with their sources. Fund holdings are a floor on debt, not its total. Prices are holders’ fair values, not ratings. No evidence in these sources does not mean an operator has no financing.
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