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JONESBORO, Ark. – (November 4, 2021) – Ritter Communications, the largest privately held telecommunications service provider in the Mid-South, will soon offer access to the company’s 100% fiber high-speed internet service currently available to businesses in Brinkley to local residents as part of a recent investment made to improve the area’s technology infrastructure. Brinkley city officials have secured $2.2 million through the Arkansas Rural Connect (ARC) grant program to extend Ritter Communications new fiber optic network to local residential customers. The Arkansas Rural Connect program, funded by the American Rescue Plan and existing state resources, awards grants to rural communities that help finance projects improving high-speed broadband internet access for more Arkansans. In addition, the company has independently invested over half a million dollars to provide the Brinkley business community with state-of-the-art communications technology and advanced business solutions.

JONESBORO, Ark. – (October 13, 2021) – Ritter Communications, the mid-South region’s largest privately-held fiber broadband provider, held an event on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the opening of the company’s $8 million multi-user data and cloud storage facility. The 8,544 SF Ritter Communications Data Technology Center opened in September 2020. The Data Technology Center is the first service provider-grade data center to serve mid-South businesses and the only one of its kind in the region.

JONESBORO, Ark. – (August 2021) – Ritter Communications, a leading regional broadband provider headquartered in Jonesboro, has announced that the first Fayetteville business customers to receive the company’s 100% fiber, high-speed internet services are connected. Services will become available incrementally to Fayetteville businesses as fiber build “zones” are completed over the next 12 months.

JONESBORO, Ark. – (July 27, 2021) – Ritter Communications, a leading regional broadband provider headquartered in Jonesboro, is investing $12 million to bring 100% fiber internet services and advanced cloud solutions to businesses in the Arkansas River Valley Region. Four River Valley markets will be fiber-connected beginning with Alma and Ozark in August, Fort Smith in the fourth quarter and Van Buren in the first quarter of 2022.

JONESBORO, Ark. – (July 9, 2021) - Ritter Communications was recently named as one of the Best Places to Work in Arkansas. This eighth annual program was created by Arkansas Business and Best Companies Group.

JONESBORO, Ark. – (May 25, 2021) – Ritter Communications, a leading regional broadband provider headquartered in Jonesboro, Arkansas, is investing $12 million to implement a major network upgrade in 45 rural Northeast Arkansas and West Tennessee communities. Ritter Communications began the system upgrade in February and will have all upgrades completed by summer 2022.

  JONESBORO, Ark. – (April 21, 2021) – Ritter Communications, a leading regional broadband provider headquartered in Jonesboro, has invested $28 million to bring 100% fiber internet services and advanced cloud solutions to Northwest Arkansas businesses in Springdale, Lowell, Fayetteville, Rogers and Bentonville. In the last 24 months, Ritter Communications has invested $60 million to bring high speed 100% fiber internet service to 18 previously underserved communities in Arkansas.

  Representatives from the Conway County Care Center accept a $2,500 donation from Ritter Communications Marketing Coordinator Melissa Cole (far left) and Ritter Communications Sales Representative Oni Robertson (far right).   JONESBORO, Ark. – (April 6, 2021) – Ritter Communications, a leading regional broadband provider headquartered in Jonesboro, has announced it has made a $4 million investment to continue the company’s efforts to bridge the digital divide in Arkansas, which includes its most recent expansion of services to Morrilton businesses. In addition to high-quality broadband connectivity, Ritter Communications brings a full suite of telecommunications services, including voice, custom cloud solutions, networking and television services. The Morrilton expansion project comes after a number of other recent rural expansions including Lonoke, Pine Bluff, Arkadelphia and Texarkana.

  Jane Fowler (left) from Family Resource Services, Inc. in Lonoke accepts a $1,000 donation from Ritter Communications Sales Representative Scott Pratt (right).   JONESBORO, Ark. – (March 18, 2021) – Ritter Communications, a leading regional broadband provider headquartered in Jonesboro, has expanded the company's 100% fiber high-speed internet and advanced business solutions to Lonoke business customers. In addition to state-of-the-art fiber internet, Ritter Communications brings a full suite of telecommunications services including voice, cloud solutions, networking and television services. The Lonoke expansion is part of the company’s ongoing plan to provide 100% fiber services in Pine Bluff, Arkadelphia and Texarkana.

JONESBORO, Ark. – (February 18, 2020) - We are happy to announce we will once again sponsor the annual Radio/Cablethon live from Blytheville, AR on Saturday, March 10th. In its 41st year, the annual Radio/Cablethon raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, one of the world’s premier centers for the research and treatment of childhood cancer and other catastrophic diseases.