Ten years ago, southeast Minnesota was hit with record rainfall impacting many towns in the area; Rushford being the most severely hit. The flood of 2007 left residents without drinking water, a usable sewer system, power or use of their phone. The equipment in the telephone office was destroyed, and cell phones also were not
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March 2017
13 Libraries Receive Donations From AcenTek
On Monday, March 20th, the Houston Public Memorial Library was presented with a $500 donation from AcenTek. Liz Gibson-Gasset, library director, expressed her gratitude, stating that the funds will be used to purchase materials for this year’s summer reading program. Common to most libraries in our rural communities, expenses continue to increase and funding does
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March 2017
Quickly Upgrading to Fiber
Ascending technology means we’re always striving to provide you with the best service available. We, at AcenTek, take that slogan pretty seriously and the proof can be found in the details of our fiber expansion. According to Broadbandnow.com, only 7.9% of Minnesotans have access to 1 gigabit broadband. We want to provide our customers with
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June 2016
Computer Repair/IT Consulting to Open in La Crescent
AcenTek will open the doors of their subsidiary company, CCS Technologies later this month in La Crescent, MN. CCS Technologies will offer computer services including PC repair, data protection and backup, network security, Office 365, business grade Exchange email, website hosting, spam filtering, and consultations to residents and business owners in La Crescent and surrounding
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June 2016
Peterson Gets New Playground, AcenTek Helps
On Monday, May 16th friends and community members gathered to celebrate a goal achieved: A brand new playground in Peterson. The new playground, offering 19 different activities, was installed in early May and the AcenTek Foundation is proud to announce their support of this community project. Last summer Peterson’s city maintenance man recommended getting rid
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May 2016
AcenTek Brings WiFi to Pettibone
Pettibone Resort RV & Campground is the ideal location for a relaxing getaway on the Mississippi River. Campground Manager, Zeb Allert, continually strives to improve the experience for his customers. That is why it comes as no surprise that Pettibone recently partnered with AcenTek to improve the WiFi connection for their campers. Typical campgrounds are
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October 2015
AcenTek Donates to Local Fire Departments
Dressing casual on Fridays pays off for nine area fire departments. Earlier this week, area volunteer fire departments each received a $500 donation in appreciation for the volunteer services they provide the community. This donation, courtesy of AcenTek, was literally collected one dollar at a time as a result of the Casual Day Fund. The
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March 2015
AcenTek Increases Local School’s Access to the World 10 Fold
AcenTek, a locally based technology solutions provider for 65 years, announced as part of their AcenTek Gigabit Neighborhood project, the fiber connected schools in their service areas will be upgraded to 1 gigabit internet connections with no increase in rates. The second phase of AcenTek’s continuing fiber build out to their customer’s homes includes expanding
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January 2015
Why Use AcenTek Wireless Service?
Most people that want to have wireless access to the internet in their homes do not realize how important it is to have a properly configured wireless network. The majority of internet customers will decide they need wireless connections to their devices and buy a wireless router. They will just plug it in and start
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November 2014
Who is AcenTek?
AcenTek is the same company we have always been for over 60 years, an ever evolving technology company, improving our offerings to our customers. Since our rebranding in April to AcenTek, our employees have experienced questions from people in the communities we provide service to, about whether Ace Communications Group had been purchased. Ace Communications