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

Broken USF May Require a Congressional Solution

The two potential solutions to the sustainability problems ailing the FCC’s Universal Service Fund appear to be either contribution reform or direct appropriation from Congress. Some worry that Congress will not act. Panelists appearing at a recent conference in DC said it might take the Supreme Court declaring the USF program unconstitutional to spur Congressional interest.
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BEAD Changes Could Include Program Consolidation, Audits, Alternative Technologies

The most likely changes to the $42 billion BEAD program after the Trump Administration takes over appear to involve deemphasizing fiber construction and loosening barriers to fixed wireless and satellite to unserved rural areas. Speakers at a Broadband Breakfast conference last week also suggested there could be audits and searches to remove certain requirements from BEAD rules and consolidation of BEAD with other broadband funding programs.
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NTCA Praises ACCESS Rural America Act’s Senate Passage

Recent Senate passage of the Access to Capital Creates Economic Strength and Supports (ACCESS) Rural America Act moves regulatory relief for rural broadband providers closer to reality. The bill, which would relieve many telcos from SEC reporting requirements, is unlikely to pass before the end of the current Congress but appears to be gaining momentum for the next Congress.
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