Community Information

Griswold Cooperative Telephone Company is proud to be a locally owned company. We also enjoy being a part of the community and showcasing community events.

Broadband Network Evolution Project
"Fiber To The Home"

After many months of planning, the Board of Directors and Staff are pleased to announce our Broadband Network Evolution Project.

The end of December, Griswold Cooperative started the engineering and installation process of an advanced Broadband Network, that will result in what is generally referred to as Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH). This system will provide a platform for enhanced communications and entertainment services long into the future.

Our customers receiving telephone service from the Cooperative today, including all of our rural customers, will have fiber optics connected right to your homes or businesses. The project will replace the existing copper network cabling this is currently used to provide telephone, Internet and cable television service. The Broadband Network will bring all services to customers over fiber optic cable, individually to each location. The fiber "pipe" opens nearly endless opportunities for communications and entertainment services because of the sheer volume of space, or bandwidth, which is available to every customer.

The entire project should be completed by 2015, but different portions or areas will be completed incrementally, at different times. As these steps are completed, those customers will be converted to the new fiber optic system and service offerings. For our customers in Elliott and Grant, the initial phase of the project, you are seeing our engineering firm, RVW, Inc., in your neighborhoods and talking with each of you about the design parameters for each individual location we are serving.

We have a committed Board and Staff that make a great team at the Cooperative and our primary responsibility is to assure that our customers have the services they will want and need, when they want and need them. We believe is is our responsibility to have the technology in place to meet the needs of our customers now, and in the future.

Again if you will, the new fiber Broadband Network will be capable of increased bandwidth per customer and will allow for higher quality TV channels, and the continued expansion of Internet speeds, data services and applications. The project covers the entire Cooperative service area with FTTH installations. Rural customers will be able to get TV services, which before have only been available to city residents.

There will be more communication with you about additional specifics of the construction and installation of all phases of the project. We thank you for your continued consideration and cooperation as we implement this major undertaking.

Learn more about The Great Disconnect campaign!!

The Great Disconnect public relations campaign is a joint effort between Iowa Network Services, Iowa Telecommunications Association, and Rural Iowa Independent Telephone Association members. An advocacy campaign for Iowa telecommunications companies and the customers they serve. Proposed legislation could damage rural telephone companies and their ability to continue to provide quality Internet service to you. Learn more about The Great Disconnect and what it means to you by checking out www.thegreatdisconnect.org. Griswold Telephone is proud to be part of a unified plan to promote rural telecom for Iowa's future.

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The Griswold Community School District offers a text notification service sponsored by Griswold Telephone.  This service will allow you to receive text messages to your cellular phone from the school in regards to any emergency weather and activity notifications.

The text service is free to sign up for, however your cellular phone service may charge for receiving text messages.  Please contact your cellular carrier if you wish to inquire about charges or to add a text message plan to your cellular service.  The text notification service is now available.  Click on the link above to sign up. 

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