Pioneer Telephone Cooperative is a cooperatively owned telecommunications company that provides telephone and other telecommunications services in a large portion of the state of Oklahoma.
Its headquarters are in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. It was established in 1953 and currently is reported to be the third largest telephone cooperative in the United States.
Pioneer is particularly advanced in some of its service offerings, operating an extensive broadband network that makes high-speed broadband and DSL available to 95% of its members. IPTV service was inaugurated in 2004.
Famous quotes containing the words pioneer, telephone and/or cooperative:
“Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Then we grow up to be Daddy. Domesticated men with undomesticated, frontier dreams. Suddenly life—or is it the children?—is not as cooperative as it ought to be. It’s tough to be in command of anything when a baby is crying or a ten-year-old is in despair. It’s tough to feel a sense of control when you’ve got to stop six times during the half-hour ride to Grandma’s.”
—Hugh O’Neill (20th century)