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Pioneer Communications

is in the Media Industry

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$17.5M
  • Private
  • US
Dow Jones Description

By late 1955, Pioneer had purchased the Johnson, Manter, and Satanta exchanges, pending Kansas Corporation Commission approval. The Ryus exchange was created from parts of the Ulysses and Satanta exchanges. Plans were also made to serve some Baca County, Colorado residents from the Manter exchange and to provide service for the newly created Big Bow exchange. At 12:01 A.M. on June 3, 1956, Pioneer cut the Ulysses exchange to dial. The purchase of the Syracuse exchange, from the Border Telephone Company was approved by the Kansas Corporation Commission on October 7, 1959. The Coolidge exchange was formed from the eastern portion of the Syracuse exchange. The Deerfield exchange was purchased in March of 1960. In April, 1960, Pioneer became the first cooperative telephone company in Kansas to acquire a Bell exchange when it purchased the Lakin exchange from Southwestern Bell. In May of 1964, Pioneer began automated billing using IBM billing equipment. In 1971, billing was converted to a computer based system. In February of 1969, Suburban Dial, Inc., which consisted of the Colwich and Bentley exchanges near Wichita, was merged into Pioneer Telephone. On July 1, 1969, Colwich and Bentley were traded to Southwestern Bell for the Hugoton Exchange. In addition, Pioneer acquired all AT&T and Southwestern Bell toll facilities within Pioneer's exchange boundaries. This was the first instance in which REA funds were used for the acquisition of toll plant...

Number of Employees 174
Contact Information

120 W Kansas Ave

Ulysses, Kansas 67880

www.pioncomm.ne...

1 620 356 3211

NAICS Code Cable and Other Subscription Programming: 515210

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