Big River Telephone partners with Eagle Communications
Cape Girardeau, Missouri (January 5, 2007) –Big River Telephone, a local telecommunications provider headquartered in Cape Girardeau is expanding its cable partnerships. With many years of experience in partnering with cable companies, Big River Telephone is rapidly expanding its cable/telephony relationships throughout the country.
Eagle Communications, based in Hays, Kansas, is the latest organization to sign an agreement to offer Big River Telephone voice services to its customers.
This partnership will allow Eagle to provide primary line VoIP services to its customers in the residential and commercial markets. They will offer local number portability, E911, directory services, operator services, voicemail, specialized calling features and much more.
Rex Skiles, GM-Broadband Division, looks forward to working with a company holding similar goals.
“Eagle is excited to partner with a company that is parallel not only in size but in customer commitment. Eagle feels with its strengths as a company and its solid infrastructure that adding Big River as a voice provider will prove to be a big win for Eagle customers,” he says.
Kevin Cantwell, President of Big River Telephone, agrees the two organizations are ideally matched.
“Eagle Communications and Big River Telephone are comparable organizations. We are both focused on delivering to consumers the products and services they want and need in the rapidly changing technology arena. We look forward to working side by side with them to launch voice services in their markets and assist them in being the local telephone choice for their customers,” he says.
Big River Telephone
Big River Telephone brings network service solutions to Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois, and Western Kentucky. It also offers voice services in the MO, IL, TN and KY cable markets through its cable partners. The Cape-based company operates an Advanced Digital Network that delivers local, long distance, data, and internet services to the region. Big River Telephone is a privately held company headquartered in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. For more information, call (800) 455-1608 or visit www.bigrivertelephone.com.
Eagle Communications
Eagle Communications, Inc. is a Kansas based Broadband Services Company with over 250 employee-owners. The company now operates 23 radio stations in Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri as well as cable TV systems in Kansas and Colorado. The company also offers e-business solutions, web hosting, high speed internet, wireless internet and digital phone services in most service areas. For more information, log on to www.eaglecom.net.