Our Story

our company

Over 50 years
experience

We have been providing internet and telecom services for more than 30 years!

For decades American’s access to modern broadband service has been in steady decline.

Over the years it has become more and more difficult for low income families and rural communities to access modern broadband service. Even over a 30% of rural households making over $75,000 a year can’t access broadband.

The recent COVID epidemic forced us, as a nation, to pay attention to how bad the problem really is, particularly in our rural areas, and recognize that the internet isn't a luxury but a necessity. 

Even during the pandemic corporate internet providers failed to expand access when we needed it the most, which we were particularly impacted by here in Montana. 

Here we rank 50th in the country when it comes to broadband access. That means we are DEAD LAST, behind states like Wyoming and Alaska.

 The residents of our state have truly suffered the most from limited broadband access, paying the highest prices for the slowest speeds.

This has dramatically stifled people’s ability to work from home, children to access distance learning, and the operations and growth of businesses that require fast and modern connectivity.

It’s our mission as a non profit 501c3 to provide rural communities across the Pacific NW region, and beyond, with the tools and support they need to solve their broadband access issues on their own, with a bottom up community owned and operated solution that doesn’t require the need for a national incumbent telecoms to deem their community “profitable” enough to earn enough attention to gain access to the level of broadband service they need.

Through our model we can not only provide the broadband service these communities need, but also create highly skilled and sustainable jobs that rural communities are in desperate need of, and attract other outside economic stimulus. 

Improving this infrastructure is not just key for our rural community's ability to recover from the recent pandemic, but to continue to improve our economy into the future.