VoIP Providers & Business Phone Companies in Blair, NE

Great Plains Communications, often shortened to GPC, is a fiber-based telecommunications company headquartered in Blair, Nebraska. It delivers voice, internet and video services to homes, businesses and carrier partners. For organizations evaluating business phone options, GPC is a provider that owns and runs the network carrying its voice traffic. Its footprint reaches close to 200 communities spread across Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa and Kentucky. A virtual service center supports customers in Colorado.

Voice and communications for businesses

GPC gives business customers several ways to handle calling. Companies that prefer conventional service can keep traditional phone lines. Those moving to the cloud can choose hosted VoIP plans. In mid-2025 the company announced a partnership with Intermedia Cloud Communications to launch GPC Unified Communications, a platform that combines calling and collaboration tools in one offering. Voice is typically sold alongside the company's other business services, so buyers can get connectivity, phone and security from a single vendor.

• Cloud-hosted VoIP calling plans
• GPC Unified Communications, built with Intermedia
• Traditional business phone lines
• Fiber internet and Managed Ethernet, point-to-point or point-to-multipoint
• Managed Wi-Fi and SD-WAN
• Next-generation firewall services using Fortinet technology, aimed at small and mid-sized firms
• Business TV and video

Residential customers can bundle fiber internet with home phone and TV. The landline service includes unlimited local calling. Households can also add the Plume-based Whole Home Wi-Fi system or the Elite Wi-Fi service introduced in 2025. On the wholesale side, GPC supplies custom fiber connectivity to national and regional carriers, local exchange carriers, ISPs, wireless operators and hyperscale cloud companies.

Network and support

The company operates more than 20,000 miles of fiber across 13 states, and the network carries Mplify certification. A Network Operations Center monitors the system around the clock, every day of the year. GPC pairs this regional reach with local account executives, engineers and support staff.

Prospective business clients are typically contacted by an account executive who reviews their requirements and designs a tailored solution. Recent investments include a $500 million financing round in late 2024, a fiber upgrade in Kearney, expansion into Kentucky, and deployment of Ciena coherent routing in Illinois and Indiana.

Background and locations

E.C. Hunt established the business in 1910 as a local telephone company in Nebraska. It has since grown into a sizable digital infrastructure company in private ownership. In Nebraska, it keeps walk-in offices in Blair, Kearney, Chadron and McCook, plus an Omaha office. It also serves Papillion, La Vista, Ralston, Gretna, Valley, Broken Bow and Wood River.

Indiana offices are located in Batesville, Greensburg and Sunman. CNET has named GPC the top internet provider in Nebraska three years in a row. The company funds scholarships for graduating students and grants for teachers in its service areas.

According to 2026 company news releases, Grain Management combined Great Plains Communications with Ritter Communications to form Rightfiber, and the combined business has also acquired Fastwyre Broadband's Nebraska operations.