Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative was incorporated October 2, 1952 to provide local telephone service to rural middle Tennessee. The company is based in McMinnville and now has more than 42,000 access lines covering 3,200 square miles of territory. The company began its diversification in 1993 by forming BLC, its wholly owned subsidiary. It was also the first competitive local exchange carrier in the state of Tennessee. The cooperative has over 17,000 Internet customers and 11,000 video customers.
HTC, Inc. is the nation's largest telecommunications cooperative and the 18th largest telephone company. Founded in 1952, HTC celebrates nearly 60 years of service to the community as a local communications leader.
HTC offers local telephone service, long distance, Digital Wireless, Digital Cable, High-Speed Internet Access, and advanced business services such as Remote Recovery Services, Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) design, firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) security.
GVTC is a full-service communications provider offering high-speed Internet, digital cable TV, phone and home security monitoring across 2,000 square miles of South Central Texas. GVTC was the first company in the region to deploy fiber-to-the-home technology and through its nextgeneration fiber network has the fastest Internet speeds in its service area. The company was named Business of the Year by the Boerne and Canyon Lake Chambers of Commerce, selected the past four years as a Broadband Communities Magazine Top 100 broadband provider, recognized by the San Antonio Express-News and San Antonio Business Journal as an exemplary employer, given the Fiber-to-the-Home Council’s Chairman’s Award, received a NTCA TeleChoice Award and twice named winner of the Broadband Multimedia Marketing Association’s Marketing Excellence Award.
Mountain Telephone, headquartered in West Liberty, Kentucky, is a member owned telecommunications cooperative. Formed in 1950, the roots of Mountain Telephone are firmly planted in the communities it serves throughout the four counties of Morgan, Elliot, Menifee, and Wolfe in eastern Kentucky. At 842 square miles, Mountain Telephone's local calling area is the largest of any telephone company in the state.
