Timeline Stories

Hamilton opens a relay center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Hamilton installs a Lucent 5ESS class 5 switch, the newest technology at its time.

Due to the wide variety of Telecommunications services being offered by Hamilton Telephone Company, the Company changes its name to become Hamilton Telecommunications.

Nebraska Relay Service began with 15 relay operators and two supervisor interpreters through its Hamilton Relay division founded the previous year in 1990.

Aurora Telemarketing, Inc. was founded. Hamilton's involvement in diverse business lines, like ATI, was made possible by the deregulation of the telephone industry.

The company completed its first self-healing fiber optic ring.

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.

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.

Hamilton had 37 employees including Phil Nelson.

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).