Fiber is Revolutionizing Small Town Business
Have you noticed your town is growing? Maybe new businesses are popping up, or maybe there are more visitors on the weekends. Could it be that more and more people have found mentions of how special your town is on the internet and have come to see for themselves? This is the case […]
70 Years of Connectivity
70 Years of Connectivity This year, CTTC is celebrating its 70th year in business. That’s 70 years of providing connectivity to the rural communities of central Texas. Things looked pretty different back in 1951. The world mainly communicated via hardwired telephones and the postal system and we were decades away from the […]
CTTC’s Rural Roots: Bringing telecommunications into 21st Century Texas and beyond
With advancements to the telephone during the 19th century, the 1930s saw a burgeoning telephone network in urban cores. Meanwhile, rural service suffered from deteriorating, or non-existent, infrastructure. The disparity grew, eventually leading Congress to pass the Communications Act of 1934. Though it established the concept of adequate universal service, the disparity grew. In 1949, Congress amended the Rural Electrification Act to spark rural telecommunications growth through low-interest loans.