The first office of the Telephone Company was on the second floor of the Clarence Clothing Company. Later a separate building was built to house the switching center and there it has remained until the recent conversion to dial service.

On August 9, 1951, a number of people from the Clarence community got together to discuss their telephone problems. A representative of the Iowa Independent Telephone Association met with the group to give a talk and answer questions about telephone service. At this meeting it was decided to hire an engineer to make a survey to determine the cost of building new lines and installing a new dial switchboard.

On October 27, 1951, a meeting was held and a board of directors was elected. President Walter Geadelmann, Vice-President Hermann Schwien, Secretary-Treasurer Wayne Saunders with E.E. Meyers, Oscar Dethamann, Henry Von Muenster and Richard Hulse as the rest of the board.

The company sold $78,000.00 worth of stock in the community to raise sufficient capital to construct the new dial system. Most of the subscribers are stockholders and little of the stock is held outside the telephone system.

As soon as possible, plans were made for rebuilding the entire plant. The old plant in town was partially open wire and small amounts of cable. Before the cut to dial, the entire town plant was cabled, the rural lines completely rebuilt and new drops and telephones installed. The new dial system, town and rural plant, was completed at a cost of $108,000.00.

In March of 1952, Ray McDaniel was hired as the manager and lineman. Under Ray's direction much of the conversion work was done. Stockholders, officers and others assisted in the project.

Dorothy Claney was hired as bookkeeper in January 1953 after the death of Robert Goldsmith.

In March 1955, after the rebuilding and installation work, the Clarence Telephone Company was the first small town in eastern Iowa to have dial service. The rural customers were down from a 25 party to a 10 party line and the city customers had 4-party or private line service.

A storage warehouse facility was built in 1965, until this time they had rented vacant garage space within the city limits.

In 1966 and 1967 the company upgraded all the service and all rural lines as well as a new central office to house the switchboard and business office. A North Crossbar NX-2 switchboard was installed in the new office. April Fool's Day was decided as the cutover to the new switchboard and rural service was cut from 10 party to 4 party. Northwestern Bell installed the O carrier system to provide better toll service. During 1970, the company hired Steve Peltier as full-time lineman. In 1973 the board of directors decided to upgrade all the rural lines from 4 party to one party service.

During the year of 1976 Mark Hudson was hired and assisted the manager. In 1977 Brett Baldwin was hired as lineman. It was then decided to build an addition to the central office. A repair and storage room was built for future expansion of the switchboard equipment. Northwestern Bell upgraded their O carrier to N carrier and installed it in the new addition.

A new Digital Northern Telecom DMS-10 switchboard was installed in 1982, to replace the North Crossbar. Baldwin went to school in North Carolina for 9 weeks to learn the operations on the switchboard. At this time the rest of the city was upgraded from 4 party to all 1 party private lines. A computer was added in the business office to handle all the customer billing that was done monthly. Divestiture, which took place with all the telephone companies, is probably one of the biggest changes and it has made a lot of extra paperwork and bookwork.

In the winter of 1982-83, CATV was built and maintained by the company for the city of Clarence, having 17 channels to offer on cable service. Todd Christophersen was hired to help as lineman to do both telephone and CATV.

In 1987, Northwestern Bell deleted their N carrier service and we installed our own termination point and put in T carrier for toll access.

On February 1, 1989, Ray McDaniel retired as manager and lineman after his 37 years with the telephone company. Brett Baldwin moved from his position as lineman to manager at this time.

In October of 1991 Marilyn Hansen was hired to help in the front office.

In 1994 a fiber optic network was built for the purpose of equal access for the customers in the exchange. Along with this was the replacement of the main lines running out to the rural customers. The company also purchased a franchise to provide Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) service to the residents of Cedar County. In September, James W. Sawyer was hired as a part-time technician.

In January of 1997 the company upgraded the cable television plant to the capability of providing up to eighty-two (82) channels. In June, Brett Baldwin resigned as manager of the company after twenty years of service to the company. Curtis Eldred was hired on August 4, 1997 to replace Baldwin as Manager of the Company. In November the company installed a fiber optic line to Tipton to access Iowa Network Services. Dan Sander was hired on November 24 as a technician for the company.

On May 18, 1998, Dawn Frey was hired as Secretary-Bookkeeper. In the fall a new Digital Loop Carrier system was installed and will be turned up in the spring of 1999. The company has also ordered a new interface to the DMS-10 switch for the digital carrier system.

On October 11, 1999, Robert Johnson was hired as a technician for the company.

On January 8, 2002 Chad Fall was hired as a technician  for the company.

On February 27, 2002  Debra Bixler was hired as a Secretary - Bookkeeper.