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
Face. We want to introduce you to patricia joe boyers, president of a Company Called boy calm and that is located in Southeast Missouri and patty what is it that boy calm does. My goodness, peter, thank you. Thank you for having me. It is an honor to represent a state in Southeast Missouri is a predominantly rural area and we are at the foothills and in the map of the delta that runs on the Mississippi River and all those lush farms in the state of arkansas so what we do, my husband and i are first generation broadband cable tv and phone providers and we serve five counties right at the cost cusp of the blue ridge. Host you serve about five counti in what way . Guest we are broadband, video and the phone provider. Host so just like and how many customers do you have . Guest well, we had 4000 4298. Host can you make money with or thousand 298 customers in the broadbanhistory . Guest absolutely you can. Weve gotten everythingrom [inaudible] we have no middlemen and i have a very shallow
It is hip to be square used to be at least. Lets check out u. S. Equity futures. Things are relatively flat and that isa good thing. A bit of a difference after the big swings weve seen. Right now dow futures up about 3, s p 500 up about 2, nasdaq up by 13. Of course this is after a done day for the m down day for the markets yesterday. Treasury yields are something to start paying attention to because we did see a pickup in treasury yields to the highest levels weve seen since june the ten year is yielding 0. 813 . And i know it doesnt seem like a lot, but it is the highest level weve seen in a while and there is so much that rides on that including mortgage pricing which has been a key part of what has been happening in the housing sector, a strong point in the economy so far. Lets get over to washington. Well talk about id call it a soap opera, but really it is a reality show and means a lot to so many millions before nancy pelosi says she is now optimistic that democrats may be abl
Several of whom will participate remotely. I will come artisticpa wish panl of witnesses. I thank them for a period. Today we will hear from mr. Steven berry, president and chief exec of Competitive Carriers Association paid ms. Shirley bloomfield, chief executive officer of the ruralhe broadband association. Mr. Dean kimmelman, Senior Advisor of Public Knowledge who will be appearing at testified remotely and mr. Jonathans vulture, president and chief executive officer of u. S. Telecom broadband association. The crisis has changed lead dramatically for every american. As the administration and the center for Disease Control and prevention encourages social a distancing to prevent further spread of the virus normalia activities like work, school and Health Care Services are now increasingly taking place online. This has caused a huge uptick for the use of broadband in one estimate shows that every Broadband Usage is up by 47 since the pandemic began. The good news is theres been progre