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Today, Croft is a loan officer with Rural 1st in Sugarcreek. Jennifer Croft of Rural 1st in Sugarcreek. “I finance our customers’ dreams of rural living and lifestyle.
ATMC was founded in 1955 by citizens of Brunswick County who were without telephone service [1] and was the tenth such cooperative organized in North Carolina. [2] Using a $381,000 loan from the Rural Electrification Administration, many rural sections of the county received modern phone service for the first time. [3]
The company launched cable TV service and a fiber optic network in the 1980s. In 1984 Shentel added mobile and paging services. In 1990 Shentel launched Shenandoah Cellular, the first company in Virginia to offer cellular service to a rural area. Internet service was made available to Shentel customers in 1994. [4]
The United States Rural Utilities Service (RUS) administers programs that provide infrastructure or infrastructure improvements to rural communities. These include water and waste treatment, electric power, and telecommunications services. [ 2 ]
In August 2018, [18] MLEC began construction of rural gigabit broadband internet infrastructure, becoming an internet service provider operating under the brand name MLConnect. [19] In 2019 it connected its first customer and construction was completed in its five county service area in 2022.
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Postmaster General John Wanamaker first suggested rural free deliver (RFD) of mail in the United States in his annual report for fiscal year 1891. [1] The Post Office Department first experimented with the idea of rural mail delivery on October 1, 1891 to determine the viability of RFD. They began with five routes covering ten miles, 33 years ...
This service was used at least into the 1980s in large portions of North America. [1] On October 2, 1946, Motorola communications equipment carried the first calls on Illinois Bell Telephone Company's new car radiotelephone service in Chicago. [2] [3] Due to the small number of radio frequencies available, the service quickly reached capacity.