In 1949, the REA became authorized to provide loans to rural telephone cooperatives.

Members include large publicly traded communications carriers as well as small telephone cooperatives that serve only a few hundred customers in urban and rural areas.

Telephone service is provided by the Vaughnsville Telephone Company, a subscriber-owned telephone cooperative.

Elbow Lake, Minn., sold its system to the local telephone cooperative, which also bought the competing private cable operator, after three years of steep losses.

It was established in 1953 and currently is reported to be the third largest telephone cooperative in the United States.

The remaining 40 percent of each will be sold to employees, provincial telephone cooperatives and through the stock market.

Our area is covered by an old telephone cooperative, so they have made the investment in fiber to their switches.

CATC is one of only two telephone cooperatives still operating in the state of Arkansas.

In Finland the telephone network was largely built by telephone cooperatives.

Sonera on the other hand used to have monopoly only on trunk network calls, while most (c. 75%) of local telecommunication was provided by telephone cooperatives.