Flat Rock Telephone Co-op

02/23/2026

OFFICIAL ANNUAL MEETING NOTICE

Flat Rock Telephone Co-op Annual Meeting will be held Saturday, March 7th, 2026 at the Flat Rock Community Center.

Doors open at 12:30 p.m. for sign-in, and the meeting is at 1:30 p.m.

Board Election: There are 3 seats available. Nominees: Judy Branson, Warren Rich, and Charles Siler.

Members attending will receive a $10 bill credit (one per membership).

Prize drawings: Four $50 gift cards and one $100 gift card.

02/06/2026

Frontier was able to restore service. Everything should be working as it should.

02/06/2026

Due to Frontier having major problems, we are experiencing 800 number and AT&T issues again. Frontier is working to isolate and resolve the issue.

01/29/2026

Flat Rock Telephone Co-op ANNUAL MEETING is Saturday, March 7, 2026 at the Flat Rock Community Center.

Doors open at 12:30p.m, meeting starts at 1:30p.m.

You must be signed in before 1:30p.m. to be eligible to vote in this year's election.

If you're unable to attend and would like to allow someone else to vote on your behalf, please call 618-584-3211 for more information regarding proper procedure.

We have 3 board seats up for election. We have 3 candidates: Judy Branson, Warren Rich and Charles Siler.

If you've never attended an Annual Meeting and are a current Co-op member, we strongly encourage you to attend.

Any current Co-op member who attends will receive a bill credit of $10 on their April bill and will be entered into prize drawings; one credit per membership.

We hope to see you there!

05/22/2025

Flat Rock Telephone Co-Op, Inc. (FRTC) was awarded a Connect Illinois Round 3 grant. Notice is hereby given that requests for proposals (RFPs) are being accepted for the Pinkstaff – Connect Illinois Round 3 project. Under this RFP, FRTC will construct a fiber optic cable last mile broadband network, extending fiber connectivity to approximately 300 locations, consisting of approximately 23 miles of underground mainline fiber optic facilities within Lawrence County, Illinois.

The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals for outside plant construction services for the awarded Connect Illinois Round 3 grant project. The Contractor must adhere to the Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/0.01 et seq.), Employment of Illinois Workers on Public Works Act (30 ILCS 570/.01 et seq.), and Illinois Works Jobs Program Act (30 ILCS 559/20-1 et seq.). Contractors are encouraged to submit proposals even if they are unable to meet all requirements.

To request a full copy of the RFP, please contact Mariah Tague or Sara Brunsen from Vantage Point Solutions at [email protected]. Interested Contractors are required to attend an in-person pre-bid conference on June 12, 2025, at 9:30 AM/CDT. Responses to this RFP are due by 1:00 PM/CDT on June 19, 2025. Submission requirements and the pre-bid conference details are noted in the full RFP.

Flat Rock Telephone reserves the right to reject any or all proposals and to waive informalities.

Send a message to learn more

04/23/2025

As of 3pm today we have 911 services back up and running!

04/21/2025

As of right now, any Flat Rock Telephone customer with a 584 number cannot use 911 or any 800 number. We are currently working on it and are not sure when it will back up. If you have an emergency please use your cell phone to dial 911.

04/02/2025

Weather related info for 4-2-25: shelter info listed below.
FR internet customers: if you lose power, even just briefly, if your internet service does not come back on, please DO NOT hit the reset button on your Flat Rock Telephone Cooperative issued equipment (doing this will result in all programmed information being completely erased).
If you have any questions, please send a fb message, after-hours only. Otherwise, please call the office tomorrow morning for assistance, 618-584-3211.

03/08/2025

Thank You to everyone that was able to join us today for our Annual Meeting and 🥳Retirement Celebration for KE Newell.
In case you were not able to attend, here are a few highlights from the meeting:

📌Lynn McCleave and Phil Goodman were elected to serve 3-year terms on our Board of Directors.

📌We were awarded funding for another fiberoptic expansion, allowing us to soon provide phone and internet service in and around the Pinkstaff area. Construction plans are underway, we hope to begin soon!

📌Capital Credit checks not picked up at the meeting will be mailed out next week to customers who had service with the Co-op in 2007.

For more information on the Pinkstaff area project, please call the office at 618-584-3211 ☎️ or consult with any member of our Board of Directors.

Board of Directors are Angela Bonnell, Judy Branson, Phil Goodman, Lynn McCleave, Warren Rich, Charles Siler and Ryan Updegraff.

02/07/2025

In anticipation of bridge repair work being planned for on the Chauncey blacktop, we are having to relocate our fiber optic line.

Work to relocate our fiber optic line will begin late Monday night (2/10), extending past 12 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb 11, 2025.

We do not expect to lose service.

However, to err on the side of caution and in full transparency, should we lose service during that cutover, landline phone service (including 911calls) and internet service could be impacted for a period of time.

Please charge your cell phones, to have a backup plan in place for emergency calls, should our service experience disruption during that time.

*Should an outage occur, it would impact our entire service area*

**We were notified by IL Dept of Transportation, on behalf of the Lawrence County Highway Dept, that our fiber optic line would need to be relocated. Any outage on 02-11-25 is due to compliance and in cooperation with Lawrence County Highway Department to allow for upcoming bridge repair work.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call the office at 618-584-3211.

01/14/2025

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