About us
Vision Statement
- neit is the communications and technology leader in Northeast Iowa and Southwest Wisconsin and will remain so by providing a diverse offering of quality, customer-focused services with integrity and a smile.
- neit will continue its century-old tradition of providing progressive growth Strategies, dedication to the communities it serves and commitment to maintaining financial stability and long-term employment opportunities
Important moments in neit History
- Incorporated January 24, 1903 as Luana Monona Telephone Company
- First manager, J. H. Schmitt, appointed January 17, 1942
- Purchased the Farmersburg Telephone Company July 5, 1960 for $700. Changed name to Luana-Monona-Farmersburg Telephone Company
- July 21, 1961, first full time manager, Donald Gray, hired
- Purchased St. Olaf telephone exchange March 20, 1967
- Changed company name to Northeast Iowa Telephone Company, September 1969
- December 1, 1980 new digital DMS-10 switch cut over
- Cable TV construction begins fall of 1982, Service turned up to Monona March 1983, service was turned up in Luana in the fall of 1983
- November 1987 new cable TV system turned up in Farmersburg
- January 1988 board votes to buy stock in Iowa Network Services (INS)
- Summer 1988 fiber optic cable buried to St. Olaf bringing cable TV to their community
- Dial-up internet service offered in 1997
- Purchased Craft Phone Service in Decorah in 2000. Allows Northeast Iowa Telephone Co. to offer phone systems, customer premise wiring, and networking to all of Northeast Iowa
- Spring 2001, begin to offer PCS services through Iowa Wireless
- Spring 2001, offers wireless internet service to customers throughout Northeast Iowa under the NEiTstream brand
- Winter of 2001, begin to offer High Speed DSL internet to customers in Monona, Luana, St. Olaf and Farmersburg
- March 2006 announces name change to neit along with a new modern logo
- May 15, 2006 construction begins on new neit offices in Monona