Lake Area Chambers of Commerce Business Spotlight

Source:Lake Ozarks Business Journal
Date:May 2006

You might have heard of local companies at the Lake switching their phone service to an alternatve local telephone company. It's true...the 100 year drought of available telephone competitors at the Lake has ended.

What local telephone company are businesses choosing? They've made the switch to Socket. Socket launched its local telephone service in the Lake area of Missouri including Camdenton, Eldon, Osage Beach, and Lake of the Ozarks in 2004. Since then, area businesses have decided to use Socket, a company that can consolidate their local phone, long-distance, Internet and networking services to one company.

The name might sound familiar. Socket has a rich history as a local Internet service provider (ISP) with ten years of providing Missouri businesses and residents high-speed DSL and accelerated dial-up. Since co-owners George Pfenenger and John Dupuy started Socket in 1994, Socket has grown to be Missouri's largest, local ISP with Internet in over 400 towns.

Socket's leadership decided to make the move into the regulated telephone industry back in 2000.

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