The Iowa Communications Alliance will be born Wednesday,...

The Iowa Communications Alliance will be born Wednesday, with the union of the Rural Iowa Independent Telephone Association and the Iowa Telecommunications Association. The groups voted to unify earlier this year, they said in November. Dave Duncan, Iowa Telecommunications Association president, will be the alliance’s CEO. The alliance will be a “single professional association for independent telephone and wired broadband companies in Iowa” and “provides the opportunity to strengthen telecommunications policy efforts with a combined voice to better represent technology in rural areas and synergy for increased organization effectiveness in serving the new association’s members,” the RIITA said in a notice on its website (http://bit.ly/19o2V8j).