Telecommunications during COVID: CTTC keeps rural Texas connected across the distance
At CTTC, we take pride in our ability to innovate and overcome the challenges that we encounter. And, this year, we are proud to say that our dedicated employees have risen to the biggest challenge we’ve experienced in our 69 years as a company – COVID-19.
CTTC provides telecommunications services to 5,000 Central Texas families, business owners, teachers, and individuals – not to mention, nine schools. And they’ve never needed us more than when COVID-19 brought our worlds inside.
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.
