Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative

Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative (ATMC) is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative organized in 1955 by the citizens of Brunswick County, North Carolina who did not have telephone service and had not been able to secure this service from existing telephone companies. ATMC is the largest member-owned cooperative in North Carolina and one of the largest in the country.

Through a subsidiary company, Atlantic Telecommunications Multimedia Consolidated, LLC, the company began providing customers in the southeast portions of Columbus County with high speed Internet, digital cable TV and digital telephone service in September 2011.

The cooperative has been providing telephone service to residents of Brunswick County, North Carolina since 1957. In 1965, an extensive underground construction project was launched to replace aerial telephone lines. Party line service was initially offered and private line service became available in 1969. The cooperative currently offers a wide scope of calling features to complement its telephone service.

ATMC began providing its own long distance service in 2000 and upgraded to offer numerous long distance plans and bundled services to make long distance more affordable for its members. Plans are tailored to meet individual customers’ calling needs and unlimited calling throughout the 910 area code, unlimited calling throughout North and South Carolina and unlimited calling throughout the United States.

ATMC Cable is the brand name of cable TV service provided by ATMC. No other company wanted to invest the expense to provide cable TV to rural Brunswick County, so in 1981, ATMC received FCC approval to construct a cable television system. The cooperative’s first cable TV customer was connected in 1982. Eight channels were available at that time. ATMC Cable currently offers over 200 channels, including digital cable service, premium movie channels, pay-per-view channels, music channels, high-definition channels and Digital Video Recorders (DVR). ATMC made video on demand service available to all digital customers in July 2009.

In January 2011 ATMC completed a project to convert its cable TV system from analog to all-digital technology. This project enabled ATMC to deliver additional video services including HD-VOD, more channels and more HD networks. The company offers over 130 HD channels to the majority of its Cable TV subscribers.

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