A Community Partner Looking to Bring Economic Opportunities
Stanton, Iowa (pop. 678) is our featured rural community this week! We'll be sharing success stories throughout the week from local leaders and business owners who are making an impact here.
Today's guest blog post is from Douglas Pals, Chief Experience Officer at Farmer’s Mutual Telephone Company.
* * *
On the surface, FMTC is a communications company bringing customers in rural southwest Iowa ultra-fast, ultra-reliable, unlimited internet, TV, and phone service. Their FCC regulated service areas of Stanton, Villisca, New Market, Nodaway, and Bethesda got fiber to the home in 2016, and now FMTC has set its sights on bringing fiber to unserved customers in Montgomery, Page, Taylor, and Adams counties.
In 2023, the company completed two USDA ReConnect projects in which they brought fiber broadband to over 800 formerly unserved customers in rural Red Oak, rural Bedford, rural Gravity, and rural Clarinda. They also serve the business communities in the cities of Red Oak, Clarinda, Bedford, and Corning.
From all this, FMTC is working to bring economic opportunities to these four counties and our regional community in southwest Iowa with access to a world class ultra-fast, reliable broadband fiber optic network. We are a community partner for all the towns and residents in our service areas because we live and work in the area...just like the customers we serve.
When you can work from anywhere because your Internet is the best in the world you can choose to have the way of life that you want to have. We are here to help all our communities in southwest Iowa grow through the opportunities created by having FMTC fiber internet.
In Stanton, FMTC has helped develop other buildings in their block in downtown Stanton that are home to Fika Coffee + Bake Shoppe and Gibbs Chophouse.
Find out more about the rural revival happening in Stanton, Iowa here:
EPISODE 147 // JENNA RAMSEY OF STANTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND KEVIN CABBAGE OF FMTC
SUPPLYING YOUR SMALL TOWN FIREARM, FISHING, AND GROCERY NEEDS
AN UNEXPECTED PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO TURNED EVENT SPACE
Several times throughout the year, we’ll bring in experts to interview on a particular topics that are relevant to small town business and leadership.
You’ll hear first-hand knowledge and info from people who are experiencing success as entrepreneurs and leaders in small towns across rural America.