In 1902, Amos Bolick and Henry Breder organized the Farmers Mutual Telephone Company.  From then, until the present, a Board of Directors has governed the phone company.  The first meeting was held in a “tool car”, purchased from the railroad.  A house west of the Middle St. office was the living quarters for the operators and a square building in the rear house, housed the switchboard.  It had a two-position board and was run on batteries.  Charles Kline was the first general manager. 

On April 12, 1902, the By-Laws were adopted.  On April 26, 1902, the company incorporated.  On May 3, a switchboard and phones were ordered.  The name of the company was now Mutual Telephone Company.  In 1903 Herman Rasmus was hired as the general manager.  Ruth and Ethel Hultberg were two of the operators at this time.  They both moved to Burlington to work for the Bell Company.  Ruth was made a traveling chief operator for the State of Iowa.  A traveling chief operator’s job was to give two weeks of instruction on handling plugs and voice culture to beginning operators.  Ethel Hultberg went on to Cedar Rapids to become and operator and instructor.

January 7, 1911, it was decided to connect with Iowa Telephone Company of Morning sun for long distance service.  January 1914, the company purchased Morning Sun Telephone Company for $18,000.  It was sold back to the citizens of Morning Sun in February 1916 for $20,000.

John Thye was hired to build the Middle St. telephone office building in August 1916.  The building was completed in December 1916.  Also, in 1916 the house that had been purchased to provide living quarters for the operators was sold.  Harriet Bolick, daughter of Amos Bolick, a board member, was bookkeeper.  Her office was in the Commercial Bank Building.  The new building provided bookkeeper quarters, manager’s office, sleeping room for night operators, a lobby, restroom, and a room where the switchboard was located.  A three position multiple monarch switchboard was installed.  The company employed 6 to7 operators at this time.  The switchboard was still in use in 1949 after some 30 years of use.  A new Stromberg-Carlson dial system was purchased for Dodgeville exchange in February 1948.

The ice storm of 1948 caused major damage to the telephone lines, bringing many of them down.  After the storm, the lines had to be rebuilt from “scratch”, which was time consuming.  The company had help from stockholders, as well as other people, to get the lines back up.  At the time of the storm, the company had magneto phones on the wall, and had to go through an operator.  The operators gave the stock market over the rural lines each morning as a benefit to the farmers.  There was free service to surrounding communities:  Oakville, Morning Sun, Danville and Yarmouth.  After the Bell Company bought out the Wapello exchange, Mediapolis had to go through the Bell Company to call Wapello, thus creating toll calls.  Iowa Telephone bought the Oakville exchange, so Mediapolis again had to go through Bell, thus making more toll calls.

Herman Rasmus remained manger until he retired in 1949.  Mike Redding was hired then and served as manager until 1956.  At that time, George Carlson was hired, and served until 1959.  Also during this time, Fern McMonigle, Herman Rasmus’s daughter, served as an operator and bookkeeper for the phone company.

Putting in dial service was a highlight for the phone company.  This required more centers.  The Kingston exchange building was built in 1953 for $1742.49.  In June 1958 the company accepted a bid from Automatic Electric for dial equipment for Mediapolis.  In 1958-1959, the present switch room was built.  The company cut over to dial service December 15, 1959.

In 1960, Wilmer Thompson was hired as general manager.  In 1967, there were 1248 main phones to the system.  775 in Mediapolis, 284 in Dodgeville, 189 at Kingston.  In 1903 there were only 370 subscribers.

In 1968, the company started to bury telephone cable.

New equipment for Dodgeville was purchased from Automatic Electric and this cutover was made July 1971.  Cost for the equipment was $29,654.  The existing building at Dodgeville was built in 1969 to house this new equipment.  An addition to the Kingston dial building was built in 1973 at a cost of $3,500.  In 1974, direct long distance dialing equipment was ordered.  It was installed November 1975.  In 1976 the company built a pole building to serve as a warehouse.  In 1979 the office was remodeled.

Ronald Fortune served as general manager in 1980.  In 1981 Gary Reynolds was hired.  In 1982 William Malcom took the position as general manager and to this date is still filling that position.

The company changed its name in 1982.  The name of the company became Mediapolis Telephone Company. 

A new undertaking took place in 1983.  Cablevision franchise was approved by the townspeople and the cable project was started.  By 1984, CATV was installed in the city of Mediapolis.

Early 1986 was another eventful time for the company.  That was the date for the cut over to a new digital switch.  Mediapolis housed the host switch for Dodgeville & Kingston, as well as Danville Telephone Company and Morning Sun Mutual Telephone Company as remotes.  This was the first time this was done in the state of Iowa.  The cutover went very well, and was a source of amazement to other companies.

Another big change to the industry was the coming of equal access.  Mediapolis Telephone Company offered 7 long distance carriers.  This went into effect September 1989.

In 1993, the Board of Directors had approved a new office building be constructed on the corner of Main and Harrison street.  This is the current office and the old office building still serves as an office for our technicians. 

In 1996, Iowa Network Services (a company formed by rural phone companies in Iowa) offered Mediapolis Telephone Company the chance to resell Internet services to our customers.  This new technology was slow to start but over the next 4 years grew by leaps and bounds.

February 1998, the second digital switch was installed.  This switch was purchased from Nortel Networks and allowed the company to offer custom calling features such as Caller ID, Toll Blocking, etc.  Also, by this time Danville and Morning Sun were no longer remotes – but stand alone companies.

During the years of 1999 and 2000 the Internet had grown so much Mediapolis Telephone Company had 670 subscribers out of approx. 1900 customers using it.  It was decided then to purchase our own servers to be located in the central office and sell this service directly – eliminating INS.  The cutover to MepoTelco.net occurred on December 13, 2000.

In March of 2001 Digital Subscriber Line or DSL (high-speed internet) was introduced to the subscribers.  It allows users to utilize one telephone line at the same time for telephone service and Internet service with very fast connection speeds.  The company also introduced MTC Long Distance service in the Spring of 2002.  This is a toll resale service that allows customers low long distance rates, one bill, with local customer service.

Hazen Computers was an independently run business owned by David Hazen of rural Yarmouth.  The company purchased his business in March of 2005 and Dave was brought on board as Computer Specialist to service and sell a full line of computers.  This niche fit in perfectly with the company's internet & DSL business.

In September of 2005, Mediapolis Telephone Company started "doing-business-as" MTC Technologies.  This new name and image was to create an umbrella for all the different services that the company has to offer.  Today, MTC Technologies has 10 full-time employees.