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About Oregon‐Idaho Utilities

Why Choose OIU? Company History Careers

Why Choose Oregon-Idaho Utilities?

Reasons why you should call us for your communications needs:

  • Our staff is professional and friendly.
  • We provide fast, personal service.
  • We are experienced at providing rural communications.
  • We have a local presence in your area.
  • We deploy the best of new communications technologies to improve service to you.
  • Since taking over operation of telecommunications service in the OIU and HTC serving areas we have continually invested in improvements to our communications network. The days of 8 party telephone lines and rationing of service availability are long gone. Today we provide dependable high quality voice services and access to high speed broadband. Even as these improvements are completed we continue to explore ways to advance our network and position ourselves to offer the services you will need tomorrow and beyond!

 

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Company History

Oregon‐Idaho Utilities (OIU) began service in January 1990, with the acquisition of the Adrian, Ridgeview, Jordan Valley, and South Mountain Exchanges in Oregon and Idaho from Contel of the West. Since acquisition, we have completely modernized the telecommunications facilities in these areas with new, digital equipment, eliminating party lines, and improving service quality for our customers.

In May of 1995, OIU concluded acquisition of the Midas, Mc Dermitt, Orovada, Desert Valley, Paradise Valley, and Denio Exchanges primarily in Humboldt County Nevada and the Quinn, Oregon Exchange all from Nevada Bell. This new serving area is operated under the name Humboldt Telephone Company. The telecommunications facilities in these areas have been modernized to the same high quality service standards as our Oregon and Idaho serving areas.

In February of 2007 OIU began offering broadband DSL in our serving areas in Oregon, Idaho and Nevada. Since then we have worked to expand the footprint of our original broadband offering to increase availability of broadband to more customers. Demand for broadband continues to increase in our area. Today we are deploying technologies to increase the availability of broadband to more customers and offer additional faster broadband plans to all customers.

Providing improved telecommunications services to our customers is our business and it is extremely important to us. We intend to incorporate advanced telecommunications technologies into our network in a practical manner allowing us to continue providing reliable, high quality services to our customers.

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Careers

Oregon-Idaho Utilities is interested in speaking with qualified local candidates who are looking for a rewarding high-technology career in communications. If you are interested in joining our team, please submit a resume to:

Human Resources Department
Oregon-Idaho Utilities, Inc.
PO Box 1910
Nampa, Idaho 83653

Human Resources Department
Humboldt Telephone Company
PO Box 1910
Nampa, Idaho 83653

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