South Central Rural Telephone (SCRT) offers telecommunication service, particularly internet service through fiber optic technology, to rural areas in Iowa. Established in 1954, SCRT initially operated as a small rural telephone cooperative with a serving base of several hundred customers and has grown significantly in the decades that followed to become a broadband provider with a customer base of over twenty thousand. Benefitting from millions of investment, grants and partnership, SCRT has laid down a huge fiber optics infrastructure that enables the company to offer its consumers with remarkably faster gigabit download and upload speed options to both the residences and businesses in its service territory. Compared to the other fiber internet connection providers, SCRT fiber internet offers max speeds of up to 1Gbps, which is on par with those provided by other big city ISPs. SCRT also remains aggressive in their fiber growth strategy and has a goal of reaching all of their customers with improved services in the next two to three years. Through government sponsorship for grants and grants for technological advancement, SCRT has well placed itself to offer a rapid and reliable means of connectivity to the limited number of rural Iowans who still have poor access to the internet. SCRT fiber internet focuses on giving satisfaction to the community and customers and also contributes to economic development of the area through narrowing the gap of the broadband.