About Xit rural telephone cooperative, inc./xit telecommunications & technology, ltd/xit communications

About company

Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. was established in 1951 to provide rural telephone service to the residents of Dallam, Hartley and Sherman counties of the Northwest Texas Panhandle. XIT Wireless went online in June of 1990 and served the counties of Dallam, Hartley, Oldham, Deaf Smith, Sherman and Moore in the Texas Panhandle, and was in service until the sale to AT&T Wireless on November 15, 2011.XITNET was organized in May of 1996 to provide residents of Dallam, Hartley, Sherman and Moore counties with local access to the Internet. Initially, this was done through a re-seller. In 1999, XIT became an Internet Service Provider (ISP) by establishing its own connection directly to the Internet.XIT began offering paging service (XIT Paging) in December of 1996, which has since been replaced with wireless technology.