Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative (ATMC). is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative organized in 1955 by the citizens of Brunswick County, North Carolina who did not have telephone service and had not been able to secure this service from existing telephone companies. ATMC is the largest member-owned cooperative in North Carolina and one of the largest in the country.
Through a subsidiary company, Atlantic Telecommunications Multimedia Consolidated, LLC., the company began providing customers in the southeast portions of Columbus County with high speed Internet, digital cable TV and digital telephone service in September 2011.
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