Emery Telcom

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Emery Telcom
Company type Cooperative
Industry Telecommunications
Founded1950 in Orangeville, Utah, US
Headquarters Orangeville, Utah, US
Products Cable TV, Broadband Internet, Phone Service, DSL
Services Cable Internet

Cable Television
Internet Service
Digital Microwave
DSL
Fiber Optic Cable Facilities
Frame Relay
ISDN
Voice Services [1]
VPN
Subsidiaries Carbon/Emery Telcom
Emery Telcom Business Services
Emery Telcom Computers [2]
Emery Telcom Internet
Emery Telcom Long Distance
Emery Telecommunications & Video Call Center
Hanksville Telcom
Website www.etv.net www.emerytelcom.com

Emery Telcom is a telecommunications company, which provides phone service, DSL service, cable TV and cable internet to much of eastern and south eastern Utah. Emery Telcom was founded in 1950 as a cooperative in Orangeville, Utah. [3] It joined a consortium with four other Utah independent telephone companies to form Western FiberNet. [4]

History

Emery Telcom was founded in 1950 in Orangeville, Utah. [3] It joined a consortium with four other Utah independent telephone companies to form Western FiberNet. [4]

On December 11, 2008, Emery Telcom announced and confirmed that it had signed a definitive asset purchase for the Precis Communications' cable systems in Moab, Price, Helper, Wellington, East Carbon, Sunnyside, Castle Dale, Huntington, Orangeville, Ferron, Monticello and Blanding, Utah. All the other Cable systems that Precis owned were sold to other small telcom companies.[ citation needed ]

This purchase was completed on February 2, 2009.[ citation needed ] This purchase briefly made Emery Telcom the sole provider of non-cellular communications services in Carbon and Emery counties. [5] Approximately one year after this purchase, BEH Communications, a small WISP started competing with Emery Telcom in Carbon County.[ citation needed ] River Canyon Wireless, another small WISP began competing with Emery Telcom in Grand County in mid-2009, also launching WISP services in Emery County in 2011, making Emery Telcom no longer the sole provider of non-cellular communications in virtually any of its service areas.[ citation needed ]

In 2009, Emery Telcom purchased a small (three store) chain of custom computers, and computer repair stores, located in eastern and southeastern Utah, named Top Line Computers. This purchase introduced Emery Telcom into the computer sales and repair markets.[ citation needed ] Emery Telcom renamed these stores Emery Telcom Computers.[ citation needed ] In Grand County, they combined Emery Telcom Computers with an Emery Telcom Video (Cable TV and Internet services) office, effectively giving them their first local office in the Moab and Grand County areas.[ citation needed ] As of 2012, the Moab office has been scaled down, and no longer offers computer repair services or retail services of computer parts or software.[ citation needed ]

On June 3, 2012, Emery offered landline service in Moab, Utah in direct competition with Frontier Communications. [6]

Sources

  1. ↑ "Emery Telcom - Phone, TV, & Internet".
  2. ↑ Archived 2015-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Computer sales
  3. 1 2 "Making the Most of Life". Emery Telcom. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  4. 1 2 "Western Fibernet".
  5. ↑ Jason S. Bailey. "Emery Telcom confirms cable television purchase - December 11, 2008". Sun Advocate. Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  6. ↑ Veronica Daehn Harvey. "Moab residents soon will have another choice in phone providers". Moab Sun News. Archived from the original on 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
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