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South Dakota Telecom CEO Recognized In International Story

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The CEO of a South Dakota company owned by 17 independent telephone companies in the state has picked up an international honor.

The telecommunications trade magazine OSP named Mark Shlanta of SDN Communications a progressive rural network evolutionary. He and other honorees are featured on the cover of the print publication released this week.

SDN’s owners include cooperatives, municipal, family and tribal-owned companies covering 80 percent of South Dakota’s geography with a 30,000-mile fiber optic network that reaches into seven other states.

Shlanta has been at SDN 17 years, 15 of those as CEO. The company has since grown from 14 employees to 185.

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