Join us on our journey through the past

Cochrane Co-op Telephone (CCT) has been a proud community partner since 1905, serving the Cochrane, Buffalo City and Waumandee Areas. In 2016 CCT began offering services to residents and businesses in the City of Alma. In 2018 the Town of Milton entered into a public-private partnership agreement with CCT to deploy an all-fiber network in the township. The Town of Cross and CCT entered into a public-private partnership to deploy an all-fiber network in the township in 2021.  CCT and the Townships of Buffalo, Montana and Waumandee, along with rural areas of the City of Fountain City, entered into public-private partnerships to deploy an all-fiber network in those areas in 2024.  Originally organized in 1905 as Farmers Telephone Company to provide telephone service to our rural areas, CCT now serves over 2200 members with Telephone and Broadband Internet.

Rural telephone cooperatives were formed when the cost of expanding services to rural areas discouraged for-profit utilities from serving these areas. As a result, the cooperative model was often used to provide telephone service to rural communities. Today, telephone cooperatives serve about 5 percent of the U.S population, but their service area covers more than 40 percent of the country’s land mass. Cooperatives have stood the test of time and remain an innovative and integral economic force helping to build strong communities. Cooperatives allow ordinary people to join together to gain economic power and to improve their lives. CCT is the smallest of the eleven telephone cooperatives in Wisconsin.