1898

The first telephone line was built by Charles Anderson and connected his stores in Lynch with Anderson’s landing

1900

Will Tonner built a line north of town and had the switch located in his drug store.

1955

Boyd County Telephone Corporation was incorporated

1956

Acquired: Home Telephone Co. (Lynch), Verdel Community Telephone Co. (Verdel), and Farm and Home Telephone Co. (Naper).

1957 – 1960

Acquired: Applecreek Telephone Co. (Redbird); Dorsey Telephone Co. (Dorsey); Springview Telephone Exchange (Keya Paha County); as well as many farmer owned lines and the Mills & Burton systems. Finally the Johnstown Telephone Co. (Johnstown).

1961

Aerial Lines & New Dial Switchboards

1976

Brick office in Lynch was constructed as the new office headquarters

1976

Changed the name from Boyd County Telephone Company to Three River Telco

1979-1981

All lines were buried and new digital switchboards – 100% one-party service

1991

Began payment of Capital Credits

1997

First dial-up internet customer

2002

Annual Meeting in September, voted to approve the overbuild in Ainsworth, NE.

2004

First Ainsworth customer came online in Spring providing voice and ADSL internet

2008

Purchased the Analog Cable systems in Ainsworth, Long Pine, O’Neill and Valentine, NE.

2011

Finished Fiber-to-the-home project in the ILEC, over 300 miles of buried fiber optics cable

2014

Upgraded from Analog Cable TV to Digital IP Cable TV

2017

Overbuild Fiber in O’Neill for business customers

2018

Board voted that Members could have stand-alone internet and not require a land-line phone

2020

Installed a Soft Switch for Voice Subscribers and started Fiber overbuild in Ainsworth and O’Neill in October

2021

Remodeled building in O’Neill for new headend and office