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  1. Thune, Klobuchar want all calls to connect
    Bipartisan effort aims to improve persistent phone call completion problem plaguing South Dakota, Minnesota
  2. Small, rural Valley co-op offers big range of telecom services
    There are no especially large businesses or colleges in the service area. However, Valley Telecommunications Cooperative’s broadband network is now 100 percent fiber, so the cooperative’s customers enjoy access to high-quality services.
  3. Board of Managers elected to lead SDN Communications
    SDN Communications’ Board of Managers was elected during its recent annual meeting. Board members will serve a one-year term.
  4. Swiftel telecom services help make Brookings unique
    Swiftel is the business branch of Brookings Municipal Utilities that provides telephone, TV and Internet services to homes and businesses in the city. The telecommunications system might be governed in an unusual style, but it’s effective.
  5. SDN, member companies are leaders in emergency preparedness
    Representatives of SDN Communications and several of its member companies planned to get together last winter for a round of disaster training. Ironically, a real-life disaster interfered. A winter storm forced the training session to be postponed until April.
  6. BMTC: a full-service telecom in a full-service community
    BMTC currently provides services to about 1,250 phone customers, 700 Internet customers and 625 cable customers. Like other telecommunications businesses, BMTC is adjusting as fewer people use landline phones.
  7. ITC rises to challenge of serving rural telecom market well
    Interstate Telecommunications Cooperative Inc.’s service area includes some of South Dakota’s most interesting geographic features. Minnesota’s, too.
  8. Good reason to celebrate: Minnesota network up and running
    Two US Senators, independent telephone companies and industry leaders are celebrating the launch of an expanded broadband network that now runs across southern Minnesota for the opportunities it will bring to existing, new and future businesses in the region.
  9. Faith is a unique oasis – and phone company – on S.D. prairie
    The small town of Faith might be best known as the former home of SUE, the Tyrannosaurus rex. A fossil hunter discovered the creature's skeletal remains near the community in 1990. Catherine Bach, the actress who played Daisy Duke in the TV series “The Dukes of Hazzard,” also spent part of her youth in the area.
  10. Tribal authority has special standing in telecom industry
    Leaders of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Telephone Authority take pride in their business being the first tribally owned telecommunications company in the United States.
  11. School TV channels and service venture help Santel stand out
    It’s not unusual for Tony Kinneberg and his student crew to hear from TV viewers in other states or even other countries when they’re broadcasting a Parkston High School sporting event. Remote viewers are especially likely to tap into an online service to view local cable coverage when the school district’s TV channel is carrying a significant basketball game, says Kinneberg, who is the school technology coordinator and a teacher at Parkston.
  12. Community service is big deal at small, future-minded co-op
    Community service is encouraged by example rather than by mandate at Midstate Communications in Kimball, S.D.
  13. TrioTel provides big-time connectivity to a rural market
    Although TrioTel Communications Inc. serves a relatively small market in South Dakota farm country, its customers enjoy a level of connectivity that companies serving some of the largest cities in the United States cannot beat.
  14. Golden West strives to keep huge area well connected
    Denny Law, chief executive officer of Golden West, jokes that his cooperative doesn’t convene many all-employee meetings. The gatherings would require employees to drive too much.
  15. Alliance Communications to begin new era of leadership
    Before 2016, Alliance Communications will begin a new era. The next chapter in the history of the telecommunications cooperative will start with a new leader. Don Snyders, longtime general manager of Alliance, has announced his plans to retire later in 2015.
  16. Kennebec Telephone Co. helps keep small town going
    Kennebec Telephone Co. Inc. is one of the smallest phone companies in South Dakota. It’s also the most diverse.
  17. SDN’s first 25 years include several significant milestones
    The creation of the South Dakota Network 25 years ago marked the start of the company that does business today as SDN Communications. SDN has become the premier, regional provider of broadband connectivity and related technology services for businesses.