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HISTORY XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. was established in 1951 to provide rural telephone service to the residents of Dallam, Hartley and Sherman counties of the Northwest Texas Panhandle. XIT Wireless went online in June of 1990 serving the counties of Dallam, Hartley, Oldham, Deaf Smith, Sherman and Moore in the Texas Panhandle. Approximate home coverage area is 7,500 square miles. XITNET was organized in May of 1996 to provide residents of Dallam, Hartley, Sherman and Moore counties with local access to the Internet. Initially, this was done through a re-seller. In 1999, XIT became an Internet Service Provider (ISP) by establishing its own connection directly to the Internet. XIT began offering paging service (XIT Paging) in December of 1996. In 1997, XIT became an interexchange provider offering long distance service within our serving area and outside of this area where we have a presence. XIT Communications was one of the first companies nationwide to offer Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) services utilizing its own facilities when local service was offered in January of 1998 to the residents of Dalhart and Stratford. XIT Communications has since expanded its local services to Hartley and Channing (March, 2004), Boys Ranch (April, 2005) and will be offering service in Vega in 2007. The summer of 1999, XIT produced the first publication of the XIT Communications' Regional Telephone Directory, offering a higher quality, community oriented, regional directory to the area we serve. Area customers benefit by placing advertising in the alpha and yellow pages of the directory. XIT launched its XITv Cable and high speed Internet using VDSL technology in the cities of Dalhart, Stratford and Texline in 2001. XITv and VDSL services were offered in the towns of Hartley, Channing, Boys Ranch and soon to be Vega as service became available with the local phone service. High speed Internet, using ADSL technology became available to the rural areas in February 2003. XIT acquired the local TV cable company in Vega, Vega Cablevision, in April of 2006.
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