Posted by: John_Hamilton on 09/25/2013 04:09 PM
Updated by: thepinetree on 03/31/2015 01:56 PM
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Calaveras Telephone, 119 Years Old and Still Acting Like a Teenager ~By John Hamilton
Copperopolis, CA...(Update...This is an interview from almost 2 years ago but the fundamentals hold true. With fiber to the premises in much of their coverage area and including Copperopolis Town Square now may be the perfect time to move your business to Calaveras County.) Caltel was founded in 1895 and is still locally and family owned. One of the great things about this area is that many of our local companies combine local small town values world class technical offerings. As an example Calaveras Telephone has over 1,000 household in the county with "Fiber to the Home". They also have fiber connections to many of the areas businesses including the Copper Town Square area. They currently offer 50mb connections to these customers and are working on another speed bump system wide. They can also work on custom solutions for large volume business clients. They are a full service provider with Television, Telephone & Data,...
We Interviewed Caltel's Josh Bauer on Calaveras Telephone's Network and Technical Capabilities of Television, Telephone and Fiber Data Connections
We have always thought that the Copperopolis Town Square would be ideal for small to medium sized tech company that would like to escape the Bay Area costs while still being close enough for travel and meetings.
Thanks Caltel for making the areas you serve technically competitive and for being so generous to many of our local organizations.
The Copperopolis Town Square is a 50 acre commercial center with a mix of residential lofts, commercial space, and "Shovel Ready" parcels with roads and infrastructure already in to accommodate commercial occupants large and small.
For companies looking to increase the quality of life for their employees and lower their costs another benefit from our area that sometimes locals take for granted is our schools. In speaking to a father of a Murphys family who moved here from the Bay Area he said our local public schools are better than the private schools they were sending their kids to there.
CaAbout Calaveras Telephone
In 1895 James A. Tower was only 16 years old when, using barbed wire fencing, he strung the first telephone line for what was to become The Calaveras Telephone Company. As demands for the telephone service increased, the young Mr. Tower found it necessary to establish a central office in the small community of Felix near the town of Copperopolis. Then in 1899, Mr. Tower, now 20 years old, negotiated an agreement with Sunset Telephone Company that would connect his subscribers by telephone with the rest of the world.
James A. Tower died in 1936 at the young age of 56, leaving his wife Laura and their young son Howard, who was 13 years old at the time, responsible for the operation of the company. In 1950, Mr. Howard Tower, then 27 years old, installed the first automatic switching equipment in the county. This meant that Laura no longer had to operate a manual switchboard. By 1962, all unsightly telephone lines had been buried underground and The Calaveras Telephone Company was operating out of their new modernized buildings in Copperopolis and Jenny Lind.
Today we are proud to say Calaveras Telephone Company is still family owned and operated.
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