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Top 25 Rural telephone cooperatives worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,059 rural telephone cooperatives worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 36,493 professional contacts across them, including 9,756 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Clear Lake the largest hub.
This list covers rural telephone cooperatives worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026. Country and city lists for rural telephone cooperatives follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest rural telephone cooperatives worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,419 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TDS Telecommunications LLC (TDS Telecom/TDS®) delivers high-speed internet, TV entertainment, and phone services to a mix of small to mid-sized urban, suburban and rural…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,397 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos a quarta maior empresa em número de assinantes e extensão de fibra óptica do País e o maior player independente neste segmento.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,186 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shentel has been keeping communities connected since 1902.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,066 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 20 years, Xplore has supported rural living by connecting and serving Canadians who live beyond the bigger city limits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 964 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Midco® is leading the region as a premier provider of internet, TV, phone, advertising and data center services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 678 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NRTC is a member-driven cooperative that provides technology solutions to help more than 1,500 electric and telecom members bring all the advantages of today’s evolving technology…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 671 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rebranded in 2022 – with the merging of three local and storied telecom providers – REV is the combined parent company of Reserve Telephone Company (RTC), EATEL/EATEL Business and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 662 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Born from a long, rich and proven history of serving communities through innovation and transformation, we are now taking our impact to another level to be even more for the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 430 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TELNOR (Teléfonos del Noroeste), empresa líder en servicios de comunicación de telefonía local, larga distancia, proveedora de internet, servicios similares y soluciones…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 398 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Ritter Communications, we have over a century-long tradition of providing quality residential and business communication services all across Arkansas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Viaero Wireless exists to provide superior quality rural wireless & internet services to our subscribers - making their safety, quality of life, and ability to communicate the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 351 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Com a proposta de trazer acesso à Internet de qualidade para a região, a Conecta iniciou suas atividades em 1996.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 332 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Bluepeak, we believe the size of your city shouldn't determine the quality of your technology or your opportunities to grow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Antietam Broadband, a privately owned corporation, was founded in 1966.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 324 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Conexon works with Rural Electric Cooperatives to bring fiber to the home to rural areas and communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 316 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ATN International, Inc.(Nasdaq: ATNI), headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, is a provider of digital infrastructure and communications services in the United States and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 272 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A CLICK TELECOM é uma marca do Grupo Alloha, com mais de 20 anos de mercado.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fidelity Communications provides high-speed internet, cable television and phone service to residential and business customers in the greater Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 242 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Point Broadband offers fast, reliable internet service to residential and business customers in rural and suburban America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “No início dos anos o nome denominava apenas o serviço de internet da TV Cabo nas cidades de Assis, Tupã e Ourinhos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 226 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2009, Airband is an independent internet service provider bringing superfast broadband to homes, business and industry in rural and hard-to-reach areas, with a rapidly…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Agility Telecom é uma empresa do Grupo Brisanet presente em vários estados da região Nordeste.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 206 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TEC delivers fast, dependable fiber Internet and advanced communication solutions to homes, businesses, and communities of all sizes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sogetel is the largest independent telephone company in Quebec and maintains half of all independent access lines in the province.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 194 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MTA's Mission MTA will be the leading broadband technology company, empowering its member-owners to live a connected life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: rural telephone cooperatives. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names rural telephone cooperatives.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of rural telephone cooperatives, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name rural telephone cooperatives. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Rural telephone cooperatives worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among rural telephone cooperatives, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for rural telephone cooperatives are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “rural telephone cooperatives”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names rural telephone cooperatives), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among rural telephone cooperatives, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 9,756 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Rural telephone cooperatives by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Rural telephone cooperatives list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names rural telephone cooperatives, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many rural telephone cooperatives are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,059 rural telephone cooperatives worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
TDS Telecommunications LLC, headquartered in Madison, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most rural telephone cooperatives?
The United States leads with 605 companies, followed by Brazil (113) and Canada (49). Every rural telephone cooperatives list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most rural telephone cooperatives?
Clear Lake leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (5) and Auburn (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 9,756 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,059 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.