HCT 8% Hits Based ON Conocophillips Common Stock

HECTOR, Minn., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hector Communications Corporation (AMEX:HCT) announced that the Company's Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $.10 per share of common stock payable to shareholders of record on March 1, 2006. The dividend will be distributed on March 15, 2006. Hector Communications Corporation is a telecommunications holding company which through its subsidiaries provides telecommunications services in rural communities in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota. HCC serves 29,060 telephone access lines, 7,950 cable television subscribers and 11,040 internet customers and has minority ownership interests in many other telecommunications companies. First Call Analyst: FCMN Contact: DATASOURCE: Hector Communications Corporation CONTACT: Curtis A. Sampson, Chairman, or Steven H. Sjogren, President, or Paul N. Hanson, Vice President and Treasurer, all of Hector Communications Corporation, +1-320-848-6231

Copyright