Company History
Connecting Your World for More than 120 Years… and Counting!
Hamilton Telecommunications invites you to discover more about our growth, our commitment to service excellence and our dedication to delivering technological advancements for the past 120 years.
With roots beginning in 1901 as a local telephone cooperative serving Hamilton County, Nebraska, we have grown to encompass seven diverse company divisions that operate on a local, regional, and national basis.
History / Timeline
1998
1998
Hamilton opens a relay center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1997
1997
Hamilton installs a Lucent 5ESS class 5 switch, the newest technology at its time.
1995
1995
Due to the wide variety of Telecommunications services being offered by Hamilton Telephone Company, the Company changes its name to become Hamilton Telecommunications.
1991
1991
Nebraska Relay Service began with 15 relay operators and two supervisor interpreters through its Hamilton Relay division founded the previous year in 1990.
1986
1986
Aurora Telemarketing, Inc. was founded. Hamilton’s involvement in diverse business lines, like ATI, was made possible by the deregulation of the telephone industry.
1985
1985
The company completed its first self-healing fiber optic ring.
1983
1983
Hamilton Telephone Company began an infrastructure upgrade from copper wire to Fiber to increase the availability, speed and reliability of communications. The first Fiber Sonet Ring was installed.
1981
1981
A new digital switching system called the ITT 1210 is installed for telephone operations. The system was only the second one of its kind installed in the United States.
1981
Hamilton had 37 employees including Phil Nelson.
1978
Late 1970’s
Hamilton installs its first data circuit connection that travels Interstate from Aurora to Hutchinson, Kansas. The speed of the data connection was 300 bits per second (Bps).