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Rural Telephone CooperativesIllinois
“Delivering the Promise”Bill Buchanan, President/CEO
McDonough Telephone Cooperative
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Rural Telephone Companies
• Approximately 1,200 companies across the United States
• Approx. 600 Cooperative and 600 Commercial (stock and family owned)
• Serving approx. 8% of the homes in America• Covering over 40% of America’s land mass• Most have been in business for over 60 yrs.
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Rural Telephone Companies
• NTCA study shows 99% of its members offer DSL to their customers.
• 99% utilize DSL technology• 32% FTTH• 20% Unlicensed Wireless• 16% Licensed• 14% Satellite• 12% Cable Modem• NTCA Member companies serve 3.2M lines
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Rural Telephone Companies
• Connecting the most economically challenged and geographically demanding rural areas of our country with the rest of the world.
• The “Digital Divide” doesn’t exist where we live.
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Illinois Cooperatives
• McDonough Telephone Cooperative• Mid Century Telephone Cooperative• Adams Telephone Cooperative• Egyptian Telephone Cooperative• Wabash Telephone Cooperative• Hamilton County Telephone Cooperative• Oneida Telephone Cooperative• Flat Rock Telephone Cooperative
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Illinois Cooperatives
• Serve over 40 counties in Illinois• Provide service to over 35,000
households in rural Illinois• Provide 100% coverage of DSL service
in our markets. • Also providing video programming via
CATV and IPTV solutions.
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McDonough Telephone Cooperative
• 4000 members• 11 Board of Directors• 30 Employees• 12 Communities• $30M Plant Investment• Local and Long
Distance Service• DSL • IPTV
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McDonough Telephone Cooperative
• Installing FTTH to position ourselves for future broadband applications.
• Building FTTH into non-traditional markets to grow our customer / member base.
• More information on FTTH
www.ftthcouncil.org
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7 Cooperative Principles
• Open Membership
• Democratic Member Control
• Members’ Economic Participation
• Autonomy and Independence
• Education, Training and Information
• Cooperation among Cooperatives
• Concern for Community
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More information on the Cooperative Model
• “Cooperatives and Local Development Theory and Applications for the 21st Century” Christopher D. Merrett and Norman Walzer
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What Illinois Small Rural Telco’s are Doing.
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Grow Illinois Alliance
• Small Rural Telephone Companies and Cooperatives serving rural communities in Illinois
• “Homegrown” approach to telecommunications.
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www.growillinois.org
• Website will be a resource for establishing communities served by GIA members.
• Tool for the public sector to identify communities that could benefit from economic development training
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Questions ?
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Bill Buchanan, President / CEOMcDonough Telephone Cooperative
210 N. Coal StreetColchester, IL 62326
(309)[email protected]