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From a humble beginning, utilizing a crank type switchboard to serve 52 homes, Farmers Telephone Cooperative has evolved into a state-of-the-art organization offering local, long distance, paging, digital wireless, Internet access and DSL services. Farmers Telephone Cooperative, founded in 1951, is a local, multi-faceted telecommunications company headquartered in Kingstree, S.C. It serves more than 60,000 customers within a coverage area of 3000 miles. It provides technology to businesses and residents in the South Carolinas Williamsburg, Lee, Sumter, Clarendon and Florence counties. A veteran in the telephone industry, Farmers is the 3rd largest telephone cooperative in the United States. Two affiliate corporations fall under Farmer s umbrella FTC Communications and FTC Diversified Services.

Though hard to imagine today, most of Horry County was without telephone service just over five decades ago. Today, Horry Telephone Cooperative is one of the nation's largest telephone cooperatives and the 25th largest telephone company. Founded in 1952, it celebrates over 50 years of service to the community as a local communications leader. HTC Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of HTC, Inc., offers local telephone service in Horry and parts of Georgetown counties. A full menu of communications services is available from HTC, Inc. and HTC Communications, including, local phone service, cable, Internet access, cable modems, DSL, long distance and digital wireless service. The cooperative now serves more than 90,000 access lines with state-of-the art equipment and services. Its offices are in Conway, S.C.