local exchange carrier industry telecommunications founded 1903 founder ezekial cheney elsberry garlic and oscar norman headquarters fairview utah usa key people i. branch cox chairman ceo ed cox president services telephony internet television number of employees 85 2012 website http www.centracom.com centracom interactive is a telecommunications company which provides phone service dsl service cable tv and cable internet to much of central north and western utah . centracom interactive is dba of central utah telephone . central utah telephone was founded in 1903 as the first independent rural telephone company in fairview utah . contents 1 subsidiaries 2 services 3 history 4 sources subsidiaries edit central utah telephone skyline telecom bear lake communications central telecom services llc cutv cut.net centracom business services centracom long distance services edit fiber optic cable facilities dsl cable internet cable television hdtv isdn dedicated internet service voice services history edit ezekial cheney elsberry garlic and oscar norman started a local telephone system in fairview utah and named it fairview telephone company on july 4 1903 . in their first year fairview telephone company only sold and installed four telephones . after several changes in ownership roy b. cox purchased the telephone system on july 1 1919 . iven cox took over management of the business from roy in 1940 . he operated the company until his retirement in 1979 . retaining the titles of president and chairman of the board iven placed his son i branch cox in charge of running the business . branch s cousin eddie l. cox was assigned the office manager . 1 on june 18 2001 lynch interactive corporation a company based in rye new york purchased central utah telephone and its subsidiaries . lynch interactive amex lic left all existing management and staff left in place . 2 in 2001 qwest communications successor to u.s. west divested itself of a number of rural exchanges in utah . central utah telephone acquired the mt. pleasant spring city exchange . additionally in that same sale central utah telephone extended their westward reach to the utah nevada border by purchasing the dugway and wendover utah exchanges . with the completion of these purchases the geographical footprint of central utah telephone inc. covered nearly one sixth of the land mass of the state of utah and touches the states of idaho and nevada . 3 in 2005 centracom purchased the precis communications cable tv system in the sevier and sanpete counties . 4 this acquisition launched their cable tv service and business ip services . this purchased included an extensive fiber optic network . these fiber optic lines extend from monroe utah to salt lake city and from salt lake city to wendover utah . in 2009 centracom joined western fibernet . 5 sources edit http www.centracom.com http www.allbusiness.com media telecommunications telecommunications 6517148 1.html http archive.deseretnews.com archive 724955 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