Ace Telephone, operating more recently as Ace Communication Group is a telephone cooperative headquartered in Houston, Minnesota. It is a telephone company which also offers local and long distance, Internet services, and digital TV service; it operates in small towns and rural areas. It serves parts of Houston, Fillmore, and Winona Counties in Minnesota; in Iowa, it serves parts of Allamakee, Winnesheik, and Fayette Counties. It also owns and operates Ace Telephone Company of Michigan, Inc, headquartered in Mesick, Michigan serving northwestern Michigan in the Wexford, Manistee and Benzie County region. Plus, Ace Link Telecommunications, Inc. which serves the city of Caledonia, Minnesota.
As an internet service provider, it also has non-telephone customers within its local dialing area. For internet service, in some parts, especially rural ones, it is the only ISP available.
It was formed in 1950 as a rural cooperative to improve telephone service in Fillmore County, Minnesota. It subsequently absorbed a number of other small providers. In 1956 it adopted the "Ace" name. Currently, it has over 24,000 subscribers.
Famous quotes containing the words ace and/or telephone:
“I do not object to Gladstone’s always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but only to his pretence that God had put it there.”
—Henry Labouchere (1831–1912)
“The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)