S&T was founded as a Cooperative in 1952, to provide much needed rural telephone service in western Kansas. Eventually Cable TV and High-Speed Fiber internet were added as core services. Although still a Cooperative, S&T has expanded its geographic reach beyond the 9 ILEC exchanges, providing CLEC services to Goodland and Colby Kansas. In 2019, as part of a rebrand, S&T established separate business divisions for Residential, Business and Advertising services. An additional division, S&T Community, was also established to better focus on community development efforts and charitable contributions.