Reserve Telecommunications
Its 1935 in Reserve, LA. A local electrician by the name of Daniel Madere has the idea to erect a single telephone pole and a few wires in front of his home. This is the idea that would spark the growth of St. John the Baptist Parish’s first telephone company. Rising from a family owned company, with copper wires strung across the sugarcane fields of Reserve, RTC grows quickly to meet the local area’s needs. What begins with just 15 customers on a single dirt road evolves to serve residential and business customers across Southeast Louisiana.
In 1998, the Madere family sells RTC to a NY investment group, resulting in an expansion into LaPlace offering Cable TV and Internet services. In 2007, RTC ownership is brought back home when a prominent family from Louisiana purchases Reserve Telecommunications.