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• NTCA has approximately 1,103 members which include rural telecommunication companies, statewide and regional telephone associations, industry associates and subsidiaries.
• Shirley Bloomfield serves as the NTCA Chief Executive Officer with 23 years in the telecommunications industry.
• Sandy Vandevender, executive vice president & general manager of Five Area Telephone Cooperative (Muleshoe, Texas) is the President of NTCA's Board of Directors.
• NTCA was incorporated on June 1, 1954.

• The association's signature events are the Annual Meeting and EXPO, usually attended each February by more than 2,600 attendees from rural telephone companies across the country and NTCA's Fall Conference - an education-oriented meeting, with more 1,500 attendees each September.
• The future of rural America is directly tied to the quality of its telecommunications capability. In an era of exploding technology, deregulation, and marketplace competition, NTCA's goal is to ensure that rural Americans receive telecommunications services on a par with those available to urban residents -- and at reasonable cost.

NTCA is the source for the latest information on the rural telecommunications industry.

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