Emery Telcom is a telecommunication

Telecommunication

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s company, which provides Phone Service

Plain old telephone service

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, DSL Service, Cable TV and Cable Internet

Cable internet

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 to much of eastern and south eastern Utah

Utah

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. Emery Telcom was founded in 1950 as a Cooperative

Cooperative

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 in Orangeville, Utah

Orangeville, Utah

Orangeville is a city in northwestern Emery County, Utah, United States, at the edge of the Manti-La Sal National Forest. The city is at the junction of State Routes 29 and 57, straddling the banks of Cottonwood Creek...

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Subsidiaries

• Emery Telcom
• Carbon/Emery Telcom
• Hanksville Telcom
• Emery Telcom Internet
• Emery Telecommunications & Video Call Center
• Emery Telcom Business Services
• Emery Telcom Long Distance
• Emery Telcom Computers

Services

• Fiber Optic Cable Facilities
• Digital Microwave
• DSL
• Cable Internet
  Cable internet
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• Cable Television
• Frame Relay
  Frame relay
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• ISDN
• Dedicated Internet Service
• VPN
• Voice Services
  Plain old telephone service
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Purchase of Precis Communications Assets

On December 11, 2008, Emery Telcom announced and confirmed that they had signed a definitive asset purchase for the Precis Communications' cable systems in Moab

Moab, Utah

Moab is a city in Grand County, in eastern Utah, in the western United States. The population was 4,779 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat and largest city in Grand County. Moab hosts a large number of tourists every year, mostly visitors to the nearby Arches and Canyonlands National Parks...

, Price

Price, Utah

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, Helper

Helper, Utah

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, Wellington

Wellington, Utah

Wellington is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,666 at the 2000 census. The community was settled in 1878 by a band of thirteen Mormons led by Jefferson Tidwell. The town was named for Justus Wellington Seeley, Jr., of the Emery County Court...

, East Carbon

East Carbon, Utah

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, Sunnyside

Sunnyside, Utah

Sunnyside is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States. The population was 404 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Sunnyside is located at ....

, Castle Dale

Castle Dale, Utah

Castle Dale is a city in Emery County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,657 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Emery County.-History:...

, Huntington

Huntington, Utah

Huntington is a town in Emery County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,131 at the 2000 census. It is the largest town in Emery County.-History:...

, Orangeville

Orangeville, Utah

Orangeville is a city in northwestern Emery County, Utah, United States, at the edge of the Manti-La Sal National Forest. The city is at the junction of State Routes 29 and 57, straddling the banks of Cottonwood Creek...

, Ferron

Ferron, Utah

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, Monticello

Monticello, Utah

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 and Blanding

Blanding, Utah

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, Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

. All the other Cable systems that Precis owned were sold to other small telcom companies.

This purchase was completed on February 2, 2009. This purchase briefly made Emery Telcom the sole provider of non-cellular communications services in Carbon and Emery counties. Approximately one year after this purchase, BEH Communications, a small WISP started competing with Emery Telcom in Carbon County. River Canyon Wireless, another small WISP began competing with Emery Telcom in Grand County in mid 2009, also launching WISP services in Emery County in 2011, making Emery Telcom no longer the sole provider of non-cellular communications in virtually any of its service areas.

Purchase of Top Line Computers

In 2009, Emery Telcom purchased a small (two stores) chain of custom computers, and computer repair stores, located in eastern and southeastern Utah, named Top Line Computers. This purchase introduced Emery Telcom into the computer sales and repair markets. Emery Telcom renamed these stores Emery Telcom Computers. In Grand County, they combined Emery Telcom Computers with an Emery Telcom Video (Cable TV and Internet services) office, effectively giving them their first local office in the Moab and Grand County areas.