Rural Telecom - Summer 2018

What’s on the Horizon for an
Focus on the Future
hat does the telco of the future look like?
The answer to that question appeared relatively
clear in 1995, according to a report by a group
of 20 rural telecom industry leaders comprising
the first NTCA Futures Committee charged with
predicting what the telco of 2005 would look
like. More than 20 years later, the second such
Futures Task Force, convened in late 2016,
found the question a bit more difficult to answer.
l By LAURA WITHERS