Service Area
Connecting Rural Iowa Since 1954
Webster-Calhoun Cooperative Telephone Association (WCCTA) provides fiber-driven internet, telephone, and television service to homes and businesses.
Incorporated in 1954, WCCTA began as a simple telephone service provider. The driving force behind the founding of the cooperative, was the lack of companies willing to serve rural communities due to how expensive it was. This led locals to come together to establish a cooperative to provide the services to the area at a reasonable cost.
Reliable Service in North-Central Iowa
Today, WCCTA provides service to 21 communities and is growing in north-central Iowa. We strive to provide reliable services to our customers in:
- Badger
- Barnum
- Boxholm
- Churdan
- Clare
- Duncombe
- Farnhamville
- Gowrie
- Knierim
- Lake City
- Lanyon
- Lohrville
- Manson
- Moorland
- Paton
- Pilot Mound
- Rockwell City
- Rural Fort Dodge
- Somers
- Thor
- Vincent
WCCTA Named Certified Gig-Capable Provider
Increasing broadband in our rural area is a national initiative and by becoming a Certified Gig-Capable provider, WCCTA is staying in touch with the needs of the residents and businesses in their sixteen community area.
As Certified Gig-Capable Providers, these companies join a national campaign spearheaded by NTCA to build awareness and industry recognition of community-based telecom providers that have built communications
networks capable of delivering Internet speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second, which is 100 times faster than those currently available in many U.S. households.
“I applaud Webster-Calhoun Cooperative Association for its commitment to delivering the Internet’s fastest speeds—an accomplishment worthy of much praise considering the unique and challenging circumstances small, community-based telecommunications providers operate under every day in serving some of our country’s most rural and remote communities,” said NTCA Chief Executive Officer Shirley Bloomfield. “By building a gigabit-capable network, WCCTA has not only overcome these challenges, but also shattered conventional benchmarks for broadband speed to enable cutting-edge technologies that drive innovation and promote economic development in their communities, region and nationwide.”
To achieve certification, telecommunications companies must show that gigabit technology is currently commercially available within 95% of one or more exchanges within its serving territory and that such service can be provided without new trenching or stringing new aerial facilities. This statement must be confirmed by a letter from an engineering firm or other independent source involved in the company’s network planning, deployment or operation.