Harding Partners with Ritter Communication

During the week of Thanksgiving, IS&T will be moving our primary Internet connection to Ritter Communications. Ritter is headquartered in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

With its roots in northeast Arkansas, Ritter started as a telephone company providing the first dial tone to many rural communities.  Today Ritter serves 59 communities and more than 45,000 customers in northeast and north central Arkansas and west Tennessee with a full suite of communications services including high speed internet, voice, video, and broadband connectivity.

For the past several months, you may have seen Ritter trucks around Searcy installing fiber optic cable to extend their services into our community.  “We’re very excited to name Searcy among the elite ‘gig cities’ in the nation, and we’re excited to be the internet backbone for Harding University.” said Steve Smith, Vice President of Sales at Ritter.“

Ritter has had great success in offering local businesses in our service areas the kind of advanced broadband services typically found only in large metro areas.” 

Ritter has built their fiber optic network directly into Harding’s Data Center.  This will enable Harding to have a lower cost position, increase their user experience, and take advantage of the broadband connection for future growth applications.