[1] Execulink provides telecommunications services including data, internet, television, mobility and advanced voice features.

[3] In 1923 residents of the area signed a petition, requesting the Township Council establish a municipal telephone system as a public utility.

[3] Municipal systems like North Norwich were formed so the capital to finance increasingly sophisticated equipment could be raised by debentures, with each subscriber paying a portion of this levy and operating costs.

[10] While the battered economy resulted in lost wages and a drop in customers and that icy winter's day in 1932 put subscribers through considerable hardships, the commissioners apparently could see the silver lining through the dark clouds.

[11] A local telephone company serving a territory including Thedford, Arkona, Bosanquet, Warwick, McGillivary, West Williams and Adelaide Townships was started in 1908.

[11] Among its founders were Thomas Moloy, and Dr. Alfred James Grant, secretary, and a number of other businessmen who decided that a communications system was needed.

[11] A connection with the Parkhill Rural System had been established by trunk line; the reserve fund had increased to more than $1,000 and the usual six per cent dividend had been paid.

[12] His first taste of that industry came right at the bottom of the Great Depression when most rural telephone companies were in a poor state of repair and finances.

[10] In February 1951 subscribers (shareholders) met in Burgessville where they voted unanimously in favour of a recommendation that the North Norwich Township Council be asked to raise a $20,000 debenture to finance a construction scheme to begin in the spring.

[3] The Ontario Telephone Service Commission assisted the systems staff to plan the modernization program and loaned out one of its field engineers, Martin Prickaerts, during the time plant reconstruction was being carried out.

In the early 1970s, the commissioners decided to rebuild the outside equipment with underground cable, a type of construction considered to be much more efficient than the old open-wire method.

What could have been a disastrous conclusion to more than seven decades of technological triumph turned out to be a defining moment in the company's history on several levels - a snapshot in time that captured the region and its people at their very best.

The company immediately hired additional help and with a lot of hard work and overtime, the outside equipment and installation of phones was completed by August 29, a mere 22 days after the tornado.

To fund this massive project, Oxford MPP Harry Parrott, then Environment Minister, announced that an emergency grant of $100,000 had been awarded to the North Norwich Telephone System "to get back into business.

It also resulted in some pay back for the independent company because it received money from Bell Canada for each long-distance call completed in this manner.

[16] When Vance and Downs purchased controlling shares in the Thedford, Arkona and East Lambton Telephone Company in 1948 they knew that the system was antiquated.

The required upgrades would include: a new switchboard, replacement of all 400 telephones and their installation, and modifications to the outside plant in Thedford and the extreme end of the service area.

Finally, when the new office was complete workers could be found stringing countless strands of wires into a distribution frame, connecting them up with a shining, brand-new central switchboard.

[15] The article outlined the $1,192,785 bid, noting that Hurontario Telephones had also agreed to assume and repay the North Norwich systems substantial debentured debt of $438,500.

[20] At the time the news was released, Commissioner Les Buckrell declined public comment, saying the offer was a private matter.

[20] In a letter to North Norwich dated March 2, 1984, Hurontario Telephones' Secretary-Treasurer Keith Stevens provided subscribers with a comparison of the two bids.

This letter also reminded subscribers that Hurontario had worked closely with the Burgessville firm for the last six years providing advice and aid especially during the restoration of service following the disastrous 1979 tornado.

[8] North Norwich Telephones Ltd. general manager and secretary Keith Stevens said the May 24 transition went smoothly, in large part because of his familiarity with the Burgessville operation through his consultations with the old company and because of the co-operation of the workers.

Before an offer was made by Hurontario to buy the Burgessville operation's assets, Keith Stevens had done some consulting for North Norwich, working closely with that company's commissioners and staff.

[citation needed] From 2000 to 2002, the firm bought another series of Internet Service Providers (ISP), among them MGL in Guelph and the Kitchener area and Odyssey in London, along with a few smaller ones.

Keith Stevens points with pride to a new and expanding area of coverage that now includes: Wardsville (to the west), Orangeville and Burlington (to the east), and as far north as Arthur and back over to Lake Huron in the Grand Bend and Exeter regions.

The company currently touches Lakes Erie, Ontario and Huron and includes the cities of London, St. Thomas, Woodstock, Brantford, Hamilton, Dundas, Burlington, Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge and Stratford.

In March 2012, the $3-million, two-year project with Execulink Telecom and Oxford Country to bring High Speed Internet access to rural residents and businesses was complete.

[27] In October 2013 Company moved to their current Woodstock location amalgamating the majority of staff from the London, Kitchener and Burgessville offices.

[citation needed] In October 2014, Execulink began reselling Cogeco Third Party Internet Access to customers across Ontario.