Iowa Broadband

While telephone service is easily obtained everywhere across the nation, this was not always the case. In fact, after the telephone was invented, business interests never planned for its use much outside of our biggest metropolitan areas. The reason was simple: less populated areas required more resources-and more capital-to connect to the system. Rural citizens, however, demanded the same telephone service that those in the cities enjoyed. In response, 1000's of tiny Independent Telephone Companies (ITCs) were established to serve rural residents across the nation.