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
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1997
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1995
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1991
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1986
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1985
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1983
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1981
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1981
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Late 1970’s
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May 3
2001
May 3

2001

Hamilton expands to Grand Island and North Platte, NE., and its Information Systems and Internet Service divisions are established.

May 3
2004
May 3

2004

Hamilton began offering Captioned Telephone Service through Ultratec, Inc.

May 3
2006
May 3

2006

Hamilton opens a relay center in Albany, Georgia

May 3
2007
May 3

2007

Hamilton opens a relay center in Frostburg, Maryland.

May 3
2008
May 3

2008

Hamilton opens a relay center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

May 3
2010
May 3

2010

Hamilton forms a partnership with six other telecommunications companies to create NebraskaLink.

March 3
2011
March 3

2011

Hamilton begins providing captioning services from its headquarters in Aurora, NE with 22 assistants, one trainer and one supervisor.

April 3
2011
April 3

2011

Hamilton Telephone makes the change to 10-digit dialing due to the growing demand for more telephone numbers in the 402 area code.

May 3
2011
May 3

2011

Hamilton offers residential DSL speeds as high as 30 Mbps, which is more than 100 thousand times as fast as the first data connection we sold in the late 1970’s.

May 3
2013
May 3

2013

Hamilton expands data hosting capabilities with additional data center location in Doniphan, Nebraska.