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Article: NRTC, Wildblue Cuts Ribbon On First Customer.(National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative)
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- Satellite News
- Article date:
- June 6, 2005
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The Tuttle family of Strasburg, Colo., became the first subscriber of Wildblue Communications Inc.'s two-way broadband satellite service June 2, and if the service turns out to be successful, the family will have secured a tiny place in satellite broadband history.
Bijou Telephone Cooperative, a member of the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) that provides telephone and dial-up Internet services to about 2,500 customers in a region east of Denver, completed the first paid Wildblue subscriber installation.
With the first customer officially on board, the focus of the NRTC, an organization that supports more than 1,200 rural ...