Provider certification record

Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative

Listed

Identity

Legal business name: Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative
Doing-business-as: Dickey Rural Services, Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative
Foreign Voice Service Provider: No
Business address: PO Box 69, ELLENDALE ND 58436
Filing contact: Charles Kingzett
INOS in Charge · INOS
cotechs@drtel.com
(701) 344-6064
po box 69 ELLENDALE ND 58436
United States of America
Principals, Affiliates, Subsidiaries, and Parent Companies: Kent Schimke is the CEO/ General Manager of Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative. Insight Technologies Inc is a subsidiary of Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative, the filing entity. North Dakota Long Distance NDLD is an Affiliate of Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative. Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative is owned by its members. A Board of Directors has managing control of Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative. The Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative Board of Directors members are: Ralph Neu - President Ralph Greer - Vice President Arden Falk - Secretary & Treasurer Dan Barton - Director Rod Buck - Director Dan Girard - Director Sidney Meidinger - Director Paul Olsen - Director Myron Yagow – Director

Provider role(s): Voice service provider
STIR/SHAKEN implementation: Role Implementation
Voice service provider Partial
Overall Partial
Exemption rules: DRN 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). DRN has customers served on the non-IP portions of DRN’s network. The DRN non-IP network is connected to carriers that do not support IP connectivity; therefore, DRN cannot upgrade those Non-IP portions of its network to IP connectivity.

Role	Implementation
Voice service provider	Partial
Overall	Partial

Date	Event	Detail / diff
2026-02-06	New	Initial certification filed and added to database.