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TelecommunicationsMinnesota, United States11-50 Employees
702 Communications is a locally owned telecommunications provider based in Moorhead, Minnesota. It operates as a competitive local exchange carrier, serving both residential and business customers through its retail operations. The retail arm offers telephone service, Internet access over DSL and Ethernet, and video service in select apartment buildings. The company maintains its own fiber network to support its transport business, which delivers high-capacity circuits across markets including West Fargo, Fargo, Moorhead, Dilworth, Wahpeton, and Breckenridge; circuits on 702-owned facilities are considered on-net. Its transport and wholesale activities serve major institutions and service providers, including banks, hospitals, schools, cell carriers, local ISPs, and enterprise manufacturers, and include wholesale bandwidth, long-distance, and fiber transport, as well as network engineering, management and monitoring for regional transport and data networking. Val-Ed Joint Venture, formed in 1989 by six independent telephone companies to provide interactive educational video to schools, operates today as 702 Communications and anchors the company's roots in the region.