the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and OPASTCO have announced a strategic cooperative agreement

It’s been talked about for years, maybe decades, and it’s apparently coming true. NTCA and OPASTCO, the two leading trade associations for small, rural telcos have announced a merger.

NTCA members continue to deploy high speed broadband in their service areas and offer customers an increasingly broad range of telecommunications services,

We’ve discussed the move by cable companies to target the SMB sector in detail. They’ve recently teamed up to launch ‘Solutions for Small Business.’

The Rural PC Project is a joint effort between NTCA and CSSA, a technology products distributor for rural telcos, to place computers in rural households and help drive broadband adoption among NTCA members.

