It is an honor to represent my state. Southeast missouri is a predominantly rural area. We are at the foothills of the mountains. It is the mouth of the delta that runs through the Mississippi River and all the lush farms are in the state of arkansas. My husband and i are broadband,ation cable tv and phone supplier. Rightvice five counties at the cusp of the. You serve about five counties. In what way . Patricia broadband, video and phone provider. Peter just like and how many customers do you have . Hadicia last check we 4258. With can you make money 4200 58 customers in the broadband industry . Patricia absolutely, you can. I have no middleman. Shallow bench. First string players. My husband and i built this company ourselves. We are firstgeneration providers. We had been in the underground Construction Business for about 18 years and then we had the opportunity to buy home in rural Butler County where we were born and raised in we had no video. Thought, around and how can we get vid
Communicators, it is a look at some of the smaller phone, broadband and video providers and some of the issues they face. We want to introduce you to patricia jo boyers, president of a Company Called boycom vision that is located in Southeast Missouri. Patty boyers, what is it that boycom does . Patricia oh my goodness, peter, thank you for having me. It is an honor to represent my state. Southeast missouri is a predominantly rural area. We are at the foothills of the mountains. It is the mouth of the delta that runs through the Mississippi River and all the lush farmland in the state of arkansas. My husband and i are firstgeneration broadband, cable tv and phone supplier. We serve about five counties right at the cusp of the. Peter you say you serve about five counties. In what way . Patricia we are the broadband, video and phone provider. Peter just like and how many customers do you have . Patricia last check, we had 4,258. Peter can you make money with 4,258 customers in the broadb
Mountains, and at the mouth of the delta that went into the Mississippi River and all the lush farmland in arkansas. What we do is husband and i are firstgeneration broadband, cable tv and phone provider. We cover about five counties right at the cusp of the bootheel. Host you say you serve about five counties. In what way . Guest we are broadband, video and the phone provider. Host just like and how many customers do you have . Guest at the last building with 4258. Host can you make money with 4258 customers in the broadband industry . Guest oh, absolutely you can. We have done everything as frugally as possible. We have no middlemen. I have a very shallow bench. I have all first string players. My husband i built this company ourselves so we are first generation providers. We have been in the underground Construction Business for about 18 years and then we have had e opportunity to buy a home in rural Butler County where we were both born and raised and we had no video. We kind of lo
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