Big River Telephone

Big River Telephone is classified as a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) and is a wholesale digital provider of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to the cable industry.

Big River Telephone provides cable operators the ability to add full-featured residential and business telephony services to their existing customer base quickly and efficiently.

Currently Big River Telephone is providing back-office support and service to cable operations in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Minnesota, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Texas, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, Nebraska, Indiana, and Georgia.

The implementation of the MetaSwitch allows Big River the opportunity to streamline its existing operations and to expand its innovative services including VoIP from a single platform.

The Big River telephone and MetaSwitch relationship is an active public partnership program that is engineering focused to ensure that both companies can co-operatively work together on any interoperability matters.

Big River's on-demand, web enabled teleconferencing interface allows customer control of all features traditionally unavailable to the public.

[15] The FCC has divided the spectrum into hundreds of rural licenses—rather than a handful of licenses that span large geographic areas—making it easier for smaller providers in remote cities and towns to bid.

Big River Telephone Company acquired a band on the federal license Advanced Wireless Spectrum in 2007 with the intention of serving the counties where the majority of their customers are.

The network deployment, which will provide access to 44,697 households and 7,511 businesses, was applauded by Governor Jay Nixon, who on August 5, visited the company to hold a press conference announcing the funding.