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Top 25 Rural telephone cooperatives based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 605 rural telephone cooperatives headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 24,126 professional contacts across them, including 6,811 with verified work emails. Clear Lake is the largest hub.
This list covers rural telephone cooperatives headquartered in the United States, 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.
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 based in the United States
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 | 1,186 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shentel has been keeping communities connected since 1902.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 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. | |||||
| 10 | 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. | |||||
| 11 | 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. | |||||
| 12 | 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. | |||||
| 13 | 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. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HTC Inc (Horry Telephone Cooperative) is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the areas we serve.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 177 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ImOn Communications is a leading provider of data and voice services to businesses in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Dubuque, Iowa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 177 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rise Broadband is the nation's largest fixed wireless broadband service provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FOCUS Broadband is a member-owned cooperative delivering advanced communications services in eastern North Carolina.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Muscatine Power and Water (MPW) is a not-for-profit utility serving approximately customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “i3 Broadband is your neighborhood provider of fiber-optic internet, HD TV and voice services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Roots Smithville understands the importance of being connected.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reliable internet access.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “United Power is a not-for-profit electric cooperative, owned by the customer-members who receive electricity from us.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The idea of connecting others started when a friend didn’t have Internet access at his business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Headquartered in Roosevelt, Utah, Strata Networks is the largest independent telecommunications cooperative in the state of Utah, with over 70 years of experience in the industry…” 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 based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 605 companies.
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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States 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. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 6,811 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.
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 based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 605 rural telephone cooperatives headquartered in the United States 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 city has the most rural telephone cooperatives?
Clear Lake leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Auburn (4) and Fairfield (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 6,811 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 605 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.
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