March 2014
| Business World Magazine | 33
get involved in the local community events.
DTC sponsors and films football and bas-
ketball games to air on our IPTV system. We
sponsor all kinds of things. Somebody that
works for me is in almost every chamber of
commerce in every county we serve. We sit
on the boards of other entities. The differ-
ence for us is we live here. We help where we
can when we’re needed.
“Those are things that the big companies
have chosen to no longer participate in.”
The business began in 1951 after an ice
storm devastated a collection of small inde-
pendent operations that provided local tele-
phone service. The DeKalb Telephone Co-
operative – a cadre of businessmen – rebuilt
