Great Plains Communications Residential Blog
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We Are Honorable Mention winners at the 2012 PRNews Digital Awards!
Congratulations to our Marketing team for yet another accolade! Great Plains Communications has won honorable mention at the PRNews Digital Awards in the Search Engine Optimization category. The ceremony was held yesterday in New York City. It’s the first time the...
Nebraska Loves Public Schools!
One of our goals with GPC-FLASH is to highlight great content on the web and share it with our customers. Today, we're highlighting NElovesps.org, the website of a great organization that features inspiring stories of the great work of Nebraska public schools from...
Data Usage Part II: Sneaky Ways Your Connection is Using Tons of Data
When a user uses overwhelming amount of data, it puts a burden on the entire network and can actually slow down neighboring connections. It can also signal serious problems that negatively impact not just your Internet connection but your computer as well. You have a...
Data Usage Part I: Data Hogs and You
In the past, we wrote a series about how to make sure that you’re getting the most out of your Internet speeds. Now we’re targeting the surprising ways that your Internet connection could be using significantly more data than you realize. Why is managing your data...
Congratulations! Our Marketing Team Takes Two New Awards!
Congratulations to our Marketing team! They took home two MIDI awards from the Mid-American Cable Show held on September 5-7th. The marketing team took third place in the Marketing and Promotion Category: 10,001 + 25,000 Division for the recent "Be Together" ...
Program That Helps Millions Faces Changes
It’s National Telephone Discount Lifeline Awareness Week and the FCC is asking telecommunications companies to spread the word. The Lifeline program provides discounted telephone rates for low income households across the nation. According to the FCC website, Lifeline...
Don’t Miss a Minute of the New Fall Season!
Recently we had a chance to review our top picks for the best new dramas and comedies for the upcoming season. If you haven't had a chance, you should definitely check them out! We know that there are a lot of great returning shows worth getting excited about, too....
Congratulations to the Olsons!
We have another winner! Our second "winner" of the Auto-Pay/Paperless Billing Contest are Kurtis and Leah Olson of Sutherland, NE who won a $200 Visa Gift Card! Just a reminder: It’s never too late to register for next month’s drawing. All you have to do to enter is...
Go Big Red! 2012
We’re only a few days away from Husker football and we couldn't be more excited! If you’re our cable customer, you can make sure that you know the time and channel for every Husker game by checking our Husker page at https://gpcom.com/bigtennetwork. You can also check...
The Best New Comedies of the Fall Season
Animal Practice NBC Debuts Wednesday on September 26th This new NBC offering provides what no other show this fall can: a monkey driving a mini ambulance. Set in a veterinarian hospital, Animal Practice is about a surly vet who treats the animals better than the...
Congratulations to Arnold and Callaway!
Last year, Great Plains Communications and the Hunt Fund offered a $25,000 Challenge Grant to the Arnold Community Foundation Fund and the Callaway Community Foundation Fund. We're very excited to announce that both cities have reached their goal and have earned...
The Best New Dramas of the Fall Season
It's one of our favorite blogs of the year. We've reviewed the full fall slate of brand new dramas and have sorted the best from the rest (and the just plain awful). Elementary Thursday, September 27th At first, we didn't know what to make of this new...