Some preliminary work will begin in the Whispering Pines area on April 25, 2022. Triangle Communications’ (Triangle) contractor, JKL, will begin upgrading a portion of Triangle’s Big Timber exchange including Big Timber town and the Whispering Pines area to fiber optics. Residents will see JKL trucks as well as other sub-contractors hired by JKL working on these upgrades.  The Big Timber town portion of the project includes over...

Hello Montanans! I hope that spring is coming with light but persistent precipitation. In the last two years, we have received a lot of questions about capital credits and the retirement of those credits by the Board of Trustees. As a non-profit communications cooperative, our business model is a little different than other businesses. Our members earn capital credits, or patronage, based on services they purchase from Triangle. Those...

2021 was a busy year for Triangle. I would like to first thank our Board, management team and employees for their hard work and dedication to serving our members. Our employees step up when needed and they are what makes Triangle great. Triangle held two Annual Meetings of Members in 2021. The two meetings took more coordination and planning, but it was worth it. Members were able to attend the meeting in Havre on October 9th, the meeting...

Cooperatives are not like other businesses. You, the members are also our owners. Capital credits represent your ownership in the Cooperative. Members are allocated capital credits based on their use (also called patronage) of Triangle’s services each year. Allocations are a record of member ownership in the Cooperative, they are not the same as the payment of capital credits to members. We do not hold these funds in a bank account,...