32 | Business World Magazine |
March 2014
C
raig Gates is the first to admit
there are ways in which the rural
Tennessee business that he runs –
DTC Communications – cannot compete
with big boys in the industry with names like
Verizon and AT&T.
But as he happily points out, there are
plenty of other ways in which the playing
field is not only level, but slanted favorably
in the direction of a company that’s been on
the ground covering a multi-county swath in
the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains
for the last six-plus decades.
“They don’t really get involved down here
anymore,” Gates says.
“Where we differentiate ourselves is we
