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Hamilton Announces Scholarship Recipient

Hamilton Announces Scholarship Recipient

Gibbon, NE (May 30, 2023)—Today Hamilton Telecommunications announced that Skyler Summers has received a scholarship through the Foundation for Rural Service (FRS). Founded in 1994, FRS is the philanthropic arm of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, of which Hamilton Telecommunications is a member. The FRS Scholarship Program awards one-time scholarships to students from rural communities for their first year of college, university, or vocational-technical school. Each student is sponsored by an NTCA member company that may also contribute a portion of the scholarship award. This year FRS awarded a total of $124,000 for 42 scholarships to students across the country. “Providing opportunities [...]

Hamilton Announces Scholarship Recipient2023-05-30T18:41:13+00:00

Enchilada Pie

Enchilada Pie Servings: 8 Allergens: Dairy Bake Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 1 hour Prep Time: 30 min. INGREDIENTS 1 lb. ground beef ¼ onion, chopped 1 can chili 2-3 oz. tomato sauce 1 Tbsp. chili powder 1 tsp. onion powder 3 large flour tortillas 1 cup shredded cheddar or taco cheese, divided 1 cup Velveeta cheese, diced and divided INGREDIENTS Brown ground beef along with onion. Stir in can of chili and the tomato sauce and add seasoning. In a [...]

Enchilada Pie2023-10-19T14:21:57+00:00

Connecting Your World Since 1901

Connecting Your World Since 1901: Get to Know Hamilton Telecommunications As a leader in the telecommunications industry for over 120 years, Hamilton Telecommunications is proud of our heritage and our long history of connecting and serving individuals across the country. We are a diversified telecommunications and technology service provider, and we operate on a local, regional and national basis to serve both residential and business customers as well as Relay and NG911 communities. Beginning as a local telephone cooperative in Aurora, NE, Hamilton Telecommunications has grown to serve [...]

Connecting Your World Since 19012023-10-19T14:39:40+00:00

What is Analog-to Digital Transition and How Does it Affect Me?

What is the Analog-to-Digital Transition and How does it Affect Me? Read More As the nation pushes toward digital equity, it is helpful to understand how Relay users may be impacted by the transition from analog to digital. As telephone companies update their infrastructure, many are transitioning from copper telephone lines (analog) to fiber (digital). When a telephone line becomes digital, it can affect how analog equipment — such as a TTY, VCO (Voice Carry Over) phone or CapTel® 840 — behaves and connects to Relay. In [...]

What is Analog-to Digital Transition and How Does it Affect Me?2023-10-19T14:28:15+00:00

Recipients of Our 2022 Deaf Community Leader Award

Recipients of Our 2022 Deaf Community Leader Award Sheri Ferinha (California) Sheri has been actively involved with a multitude of causes benefiting the Deaf community, including telecommunications rights, civil rights and language rights for Deaf children. She also pioneered E911 access for Video Relay Service. Christopher Johnson (District of Columbia) Christopher has served as President of the District of Columbia Area Black Deaf Advocates since 2021. Through this organization, he focuses on addressing and improving areas that build and strengthen wealth, political influence and education opportunities within [...]

Recipients of Our 2022 Deaf Community Leader Award2023-10-19T14:35:40+00:00

A New Way to Honor Community Leaders

A new Way to Honor Community Leaders For over 10 years, Hamilton Relay has taken great pleasure in recognizing outstanding leaders in our communities through our current award programs. Read More Hamilton Relay Community Leader Award We are excited to announce that we have combined our Deaf Community Leader Award and Better Hearing and Speech Month Recognition Award into one — the Hamilton Relay Community Leader Award. This award is open to individuals who are deaf, DeafBlind, late-deafened, hard of hearing or have difficulty speaking and reside [...]

A New Way to Honor Community Leaders2023-10-19T14:32:41+00:00

Hamilton Telecommunications Announces Scholarship Opportunity

December 9, 2022, Aurora, Neb. – Hamilton Telecommunications is excited to announce that it is once again participating in the Foundation for Rural Service (FRS) annual college scholarship program to help further higher education among rural youth. FRS awards a one-time $2,500 scholarship to students from rural America for their first year of college, university, or vocational-technical school. Each student is sponsored by an NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association a member company. Hamilton and its fellow FRS members provide funding for each scholarship awarded on an annual basis. The FRS College Scholarship Program seeks to encourage students to return to [...]

Hamilton Telecommunications Announces Scholarship Opportunity2023-05-01T20:22:22+00:00

Hamilton Receives Broadband Bridge Act Grants

February 21, 2022, Aurora, Neb. — Hamilton Telecommunications, a local technology and telecommunications company was recently awarded several grants through the Nebraska Public Service Commission’s Broadband Bridge Grant Program. This additional funding will further enable Hamilton’s commitment to continue the construction to deliver fiber-to-the-home to 100 percent of former NCTC customers in Ansley, Arcadia, Burwell, Dannebrog, Rural Gibbon, Rural Ravenna, Sargent and additional rural areas within the service territory formerly served by NCTC. The company has begun construction planning for the fiber network in these areas with the goal to complete mainline fiber construction in the grant areas by July 1, 2023. “We [...]

Hamilton Receives Broadband Bridge Act Grants2022-02-21T14:24:43+00:00

Hamilton Telecommunications to Acquire Nebraska Central Telephone Company

September 9, 2021, Aurora, Neb. — Hamilton Telecommunications (Hamilton), a telecommunications and technology company based in Aurora, Nebraska, and Nebraska Central Telephone Company and Nebraska Central Telecom, Inc. (collectively NCTC), a provider of broadband, voice and television services based in Gibbon Nebraska, announced today that they have finalized an agreement whereby Hamilton will acquire NCTC in a deal which is expected to close before the end of the year.  The purchase will expand the Hamilton suite of technology service offerings to current NCTC customers, and advance both companies’ ongoing fiber-to-the-home broadband projects. The purchase of NCTC fits directly into Hamilton’s service [...]

Hamilton Telecommunications to Acquire Nebraska Central Telephone Company2021-09-14T19:35:24+00:00

Hamilton Participating in Federal Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program

June 3, 2021, Aurora, Neb. — Local Telecommunications and Technology Company Hamilton Telecommunications has announced it is a participating provider of the Federal Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program.  Under this program, eligible households may receive up to $50 per month credit on qualifying broadband programs. On Feb 25, 2021 the FCC adopted Report and Order 21-29 officially establishing the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program. In the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, Congress appropriated $3.2 billion to the FCC to help low-income households pay for broadband service and connected internet devices. A household is eligible if one member of the household meets at least one of the [...]

Hamilton Participating in Federal Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program2021-06-03T15:43:10+00:00
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