Horry Telephone Cooperative (HTC) is a telecommunications cooperative in

Horry County, South Carolina Horry County ( ) is the easternmost County (United States), county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2010 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 351,029. It is the fourth-most populous county in South Carolina. The co ...

, in the United States. It was founded in 1952 to serve the rural areas of Horry County where it was unprofitable for national telephone companies to provide service. From 2006 the company offered a

fiber-to-the-home Fiber to the ''x'' (FTTX; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for last mile telecommunications. As fiber optic ...

service, marketed as HTC Bluewave. On August 2, 2012, the company announced a 20-year naming rights deal for Student Recreation and Convocation Center of

Coastal Carolina University Coastal Carolina University (CCU or Coastal) is a public university in Conway, South Carolina. Founded in 1954 as Coastal Carolina Junior College, and later joining the University of South Carolina System as USC Coastal Carolina, it became an in ...

, which was renamed the

HTC Center HTC Center, originally known as the Student Recreation and Convocation Center, is a 3,370-seat multi-purpose arena located on the campus of Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. It is home to the Coastal Carolina University men's ...

. Also in 2012, the company purchased Data Publishing Inc., a publisher of telephone directories, from Hargray Communications.

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