Provider certification record

Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative Inc

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Identity

Legal business name: Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative Inc
Doing-business-as: PRTC
Foreign Voice Service Provider: No
Business address: 2471 Jefferies Hwy, Walterboro SC 29488
Filing contact: Madison Carter
Network Operations Supervisor · Network Operations
madison.carter@prtc.us
(843) 538-9339
1682 Winchester Road Walterboro SC 29488
United States of America
Principals, Affiliates, Subsidiaries, and Parent Companies: Palmetto Telephone Communications, LLC is a CLEC affiliate of Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. The principal of Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative is Jason J. Dandridge, the President of Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries. Jason J. Dandridge serves as CEO of Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. Palmetto Telephone Communications, LLC is a subsidiary of Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc., the filing entity. Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. owns 100% of Palmetto Telephone Communications, LLC. Palmetto Telephone Communications, LLC is an affiliate of Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. Palmetto Telephone Communications, LLC. and Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc are owned by its members. The Board of Directors for Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. are President Travis Avant, Vice President Cynthia Colson, Secretary/Treasurer L.H. "Heath" Griffith, Brian Ackerman, Kenny Blakeney, Liza Catterton and Mark Williams.

Provider role(s): Voice service provider
STIR/SHAKEN implementation: Role Implementation
Voice service provider Partial
Overall Partial
Exemption rules: Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc “PRTC” is eligible for the continuing extension of the STIR SHAKEN implementation deadline on Non-IP networks as a small voice service provider (§64.6304 (a)(2) that has non-IP portions within its network §64.6304(d). To meet the non-IP network criteria for the continuing STIR SHAKEN extension (§ 64.6303 (a)(2)), PRTC is a member of NTCA. NTCA participates on the ATIS PTSC Non-IP Call Authentication Task Force working group which developed the (ATIS Solutions) non-IP call authentication solutions. NTCA is serving as PRTC’s third-party representative on the ATIS PTSC Non-IP Call Authentication Task Force working group. PRTC provides local service to fewer than 100,000 voice subscriber lines. The majority of customers are served on the non-IP portions of PRTC ’s network which relies on technology that cannot initiate, maintain, carry, process, and terminate SIP calls. Consistent with § 64.6303 (a)(1), PRTC is ready to upgrade its entire network to allow for the initiation, maintenance, and termination of SIP calls and fully implement the STIR/SHAKEN framework. PRTC ’s non-IP network is connected to carriers that do not support IP connectivity, therefore, PRTC cannot upgrade its Non-IP network to IP.

Role	Implementation
Voice service provider	Partial
Overall	Partial

Date	Event	Detail / diff
2026-02-26	New	Initial certification filed and added to database.