TRC Engineering Services, Inc. was conceived and formed by Curtis H.
Hunt and Herman C. Roark, Jr. Starting with five employees, Curtis
and Herman formed their partnership on October 5, 1985 in Kerrville,
Texas. In 1987 the company moved to 718 Alpine Drive and purchased
an adjacent building in 1996. TRC Engineering Services, Inc. has
grown from the original five employees to forty-five employees today.
TRC Engineering Services, Inc. has an affiliation with the following
companies with offices located at the company facilities in Kerrville:
Border to Border Communications, Inc. TRC Telecom, Inc. and Frontera
Telecommunications. Through this diversification effort, TRC Engineering
Services is able to provide value-added enhanced service offerings
to their clients.
Border to Border Communications, Inc. is the Local Exchange Carrier
for the rural portion of Zapata County, Texas, serving an area
of approximately 850 square miles. Customers are currently served
via a Basic Exchange Telephone Radio System (BETRS), conventional
cable facilities and digital loop carrier facilities. Border to
Border Communications has recently acquired a RUS Loan to install
a FTTH system throughout its service area. The FTTH project is cost-efficient
and provides our customers with all of the features available to
customers who live in metropolitan areas.
TRC Telecom is a new enhanced switching service that was placed
in operation in 2000. TRC Telecom has installed an EXS/2000 Enhanced Switching
Platform in Dallas, Texas, designed to provide Calling Card (both
Prepaid & Postpaid), International Callback, One Number Calling,
Tandem Switching, 1+Resale, Prepaid local, Prepaid Cellular and
many other enhanced services. The Company recently installed two CopperCom CSX Class 5/4 softswitches, one in Dallas as a redundant
switch complementing the EXS/2000, the other in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Frontera Telecommunications is a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
certified by the Public Utility Commission of Texas to provide
competitive services throughout the state of Texas. Frontera currently
provides retail long distance, pre and post paid card services and
wireless internet services in the Zapata, Texas area.