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
