On June 4, 1935, the organizational meeting of the “Michigan Independent Telephone Association” was held in the East Room of the Hotel Olds in Lansing.  Those gathered listened to how the newly created Federal Communications Commission made it important for independent telephone companies to have a collective voice at the state level.  By the end of the meeting, the 26 companies represented in the room selected O. M. Vaughan of the Tri-County Telephone Company to be our first President.

Over the course of the next 75 years, our name changed a couple of times but our mission of promoting the interests of the telecommunications industry has not. We are proud to work for a group of companies, now 115 strong and counting, who have always shared a common interest in improving the well-being of the customers they serve by connecting them to the world.  (Telephony article, June 8, 1935)