Plumas Sierra Telecommunications

About Plumas Sierra Telecommunications

Connecting to the outside world

PST formed when its parent company, Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative an innovative provider of internet and telecommunications services continually striving to meet critical needs in its community joined the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative. Both companies are located in Plumas County on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Similar to the 1930s when rural Americans lived without electricity, many rural families were without television 50 years later, relying on radio and newsprint as their primary source of information for news, weather forecasts, and entertainment. Plumas-Sierra Telecommunications began offering C-Band satellite TV service to rural customers in underserved communities in 1987.

As technology advanced, PST provided DIRECTV satellite television service to local communities from 1994 until 2011 through its partnership with NRTC.