American broadband media group and cloud services provider, founded 1872, running six regional broadband companies plus cloud managed services provider Otava across at least seven US states.
Schurz Communications, Inc. is an American broadband media group and cloud services provider. For a data centre audience, the most relevant element of its portfolio is Otava, a cloud managed services provider operating within the group. Around it sits Schurz Broadband Group (SBG), the operating group that supports and unites a network of regional broadband companies and cloud managed services providers.
The broadband subsidiaries comprise six regional companies: Antietam Broadband in Maryland, Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC) in Minnesota, Long Lines Broadband across Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska, NKTelco in Ohio, Burlington Telecom in Vermont and Orbitel Communications in Arizona. In total the portfolio comprises seven companies - six regional broadband operators and one cloud managed services provider - spanning at least seven US states. The group's stated technical domains are broadband telecommunications, cloud managed services, and media and information sharing technology.
The company was founded in 1872 with the publication of the South Bend Tribune in South Bend, Indiana, which remains its founding location and headquarters. That gives it more than 150 years of operating history, over which it has shifted from newspaper publishing to a technology-focused organisation covering broadband, media and cloud services. Its stated purpose is to connect and empower customers through innovative technologies for information sharing and human and geographic connections on a global scale.
