NTCA Smart Rural Providers & Showcase Award Winners![]() NTCA Smart Rural Community
Smart Rural Community represents a network of communities powered by innovative community-based broadband providers building a brighter future for small town America. Smart Rural Community, a program of NTCA, promotes rural broadband and its role in supporting innovative economic development, effective education, efficient energy distribution and use, state-of-the-art health care and other important issues for rural America.
ICA Member Smart Rural Community Providers
AcenTek (Houston, MN) ![]() NTCA Smart Rural Community Showcase Award Recipients
The Smart Rural Community (SRC) Showcase Awards are annual awards presented to NTCA members to recognize their extraordinary achievements in promoting rural broadband networks and their broadband-enabled applications in rural communities. Telcos are awarded based on their ability to demonstrate the use of these technologies through innovative economic development, education, health care, government services, safety and security, and more efficient energy distribution and use.
Iowa Award Winners
Jefferson Telecom, Jefferson - 2020
GRM Networks, Princeton, MO - 2019 Kalona Cooperative Technology Company, Kalona - 2019 Clear Lake Independent Telephone Company, Clear Lake – 2017 Webster-Calhoun Cooperative Telephone Association, Gowrie – 2017 Liberty Communications, West Liberty – 2016 Citizens Mutual Telephone Cooperative, Bloomfield – 2015 South Slope Cooperative Communications, North Liberty – 2015 Premier Communications, Sioux Center – 2014 |