Our Solutions

NRTC’s technology focus starts with the members in mind — what they need, what solves their challenges, what will benefit them. More than simply offering access to technology, NRTC designs complete solutions to meet the unique needs of each member. From selection to implementation through on-going operation, our team stands by you to help maximize your technology investment.

We design our solutions to work together for the benefit of our members. Building a communications network that enables electric cooperatives to implement advanced smart grid technologies; mobile solutions that enable broadband providers to offer bundled services; managed services that enable members to operate a reliable and secure network.

Broadband
We help you deliver fast, reliable broadband to all your customers—no matter how remote. From technology evaluation and business modeling to design and engineering and right through construction and daily operations, you’ll get the right model for providing high-speed service.
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Smart Grid
Our goal is to provide the right combination of technologies to assist all functions within a rural distribution cooperative. NRTC solutions make life easier for linemen in the field, technicians remotely monitoring systems or the manager planning deployment and financing.
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Managed Services
Operations, billing, and customer care are vital for success. Many of our members are jumping into telecommunications for the first time, and we understand just how much work it takes to prepare for and successfully operate telecommunications networks. There are a multitude of things a new operator must manage, and we here to help.
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Mobile
Our highly flexible turnkey solution enables operators to enjoy all the advantages of smartphone, tablet, and IOT use on a nationwide 4G LTE/5G cellular network, even in areas where creating a costly wireless infrastructure just isn’t feasible.
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Funding
Federal and State governments are unleashing a tidal wave of grant funding programs to bridge the digital divide. Our funding experts can help you build a competitive, sustainable, low-risk business plan to win funding and provide a better life for your community.
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Marketing
We help our members launch their services, grow their brands, and generate sales with a combo of creativity and tech support. Pivot, an industry-leading marketing and CX agency, crafts standout projects that connect with your audience while CrowdFiber streamlines your growth through an automated geomarketing platform.
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Our People

Always Looking for Ways to Improve

Improving our member experience through their technology deployment and operations is one of NRTC’s primary goals. It’s always a plus to find practices that improve efficiency because anything that makes our tasks more efficient usually ends up benefiting our members. Take, for example, the latest endeavor by NRTC Operations Manager Eve Tapscott.

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The Latest News and Events

NTIA Announces BEAD Reforms; States to Refile Implementation Plans

NTIA today released a policy notice changing the rules for managing the $42-billion BEAD program. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the new rules will save taxpayers money. At the same time, it eliminates DEI and climate change requirements placed on the program by the Biden Administration, and changes rules favoring fiber deployment to give satellite and fixed wireless projects equal footing. States will have 90 days to modify their BEAD plans.
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Rolling! Voices of Rural Telecom: Jill Huffman

Rolling! Voices of Rural Telecom is a new video series highlighting Members from across the country. This episode features Jill Huffman, CEO MiBroadband
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House Debate on AI Regulation Moratorium Splits on Party Lines

The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology met yesterday to discuss artificial intelligence policies. The 10-year moratorium on state and local AI regulation enforcement House Republicans recently added to the draft “One Big Beautiful Bill” dominated the hearing. Democrats attacked the moratorium as a windfall for big-tech companies. Republicans said Congress needed time to develop national standards before states impose potentially thousands of investment-killing rules.
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