Provider certification record

Farmers Mutual Telephone Company

Listed
RMD number
RMD0002530
FRN
0003722790
OCN
1172, 1177, 3620, 1209, 1301, 860E

Identity

Legal business name
Farmers Mutual Telephone Company
Doing-business-as
Omnitel Communications
Foreign Voice Service Provider
No
Business address
608 E Congress, PO Box 518, Nora Springs IA 50458
Filing contact
Bryan Nelson
Senior Director of Operations · Operations
bnelson@omnitel.biz
(641) 749-2531
608 E Congress St Nora Springs IA 50458
United States of America
Principals, Affiliates, Subsidiaries, and Parent Companies
Farmers Telephone Company Omnitel Communications, Inc. FMTC Communications, Inc. FMTC-I35 FMTC-SWT, Inc. Interstate Cablevision Company FMTC Long Distance, Inc. Josh Hveem-CEO Melanie Johanns-Director of Accounting/HR Bryan Nelson-Director of Operations

Classification

Provider role(s)
  • Voice service provider
  • Intermediate provider
STIR/SHAKEN implementation
RoleImplementation
Voice service providerPartial
Intermediate providerNone
OverallPartial
Exemption rules
Provider has taken reasonable measures to implement an effective call authentication framework by upgrading a portion of its network to allow for the initiation, maintenance, and termination of SIP calls, but still has some TDM in its network. Therefore, the following exemption is applicable, 47 CFR §64.6304(d).; Provider has taken reasonable measures to mitigate the potential for illegal robocall calls to originate on their network but does not have any IP connections. Therefore, because the voice providers entire network for this Call Chain Role is TDM, the following exemption is applicable, 47 CFR §64.6304(d).

Prior investigations / actions

Description
 

Robocall mitigation plan

Declaration

By
Josh Hveem
Date
2026-02-25Last Recertified 2026-02-25

Listing history

DateEventDetail / diff
2026-03-13NewInitial certification filed and added to database.