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Onslow Cooperative Telephone Association: Iowa Oran Mutual Telephone Company: Iowa Oregon Farmers Mutual Telephone Company: Missouri Ottoville Mutual Telephone Company: Ohio OTZ Telephone Cooperative: Alaska Palmer Mutual Telephone Company: Iowa Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative: South Carolina Palo Cooperative Telephone Association: Iowa
Telephone and Data Systems, (through its subsidiary TDS) serves mainly rural areas in parts of 36 states. [ 3 ] Altafiber , formerly known as Cincinnati Bell, which serves the Cincinnati metropolitan area , and Hawaii (due to its ownership of Hawaiian Telcom ). [ 4 ]
In 1949, the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) loan program was established to give long-term, low-interest loans to rural telephone systems. In response, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) created a committee of representatives from emerging joint electric-telephone cooperative organizations.
A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity, water or telecommunications to its members. Profits are either reinvested for infrastructure or distributed to members in the form of "patronage" or "capital credits", which are dividends paid on a member's investment in the cooperative.
CFC manages and funds the Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative (RTFC), [5] an organization that provides financing to the rural telecommunications industry. CFC also manages and funds the National Cooperative Services Corporation (NCSC), [6] an organization that provides electric cooperatives with specialized financing services that supplement the financial services of CFC.
Frontier Communications owns local telephone operating companies consisting of companies it has owned under its previous name Citizens Communications Company, companies it acquired from Global Crossing, and companies it acquired from Verizon Communications which are grouped under its subsidiary Frontier Communications ILEC Holdings. The ...
In 1939, 288,000 households had their electricity provided by rural electric cooperatives. Most of these electric co-ops had applied for and received loans from REA. By 1942, nearly 50% of US farms had electricity, and by 1952 almost all US farms had electricity. [7] In 1949, the REA became authorized to provide loans to rural telephone ...
Ace Telephone Association, doing business as Acentek (stylized as AcenTek), is a telephone cooperative based out of Houston, Minnesota.It is a telephone company which also offers local and long distance phone service through VoIP, as well as internet services, e-mail services, and digital TV service; it operates in small towns and rural areas throughout the upper midwestern United States.