Sometimes when you want to sign up for cable, it’s not as easy as picking up the phone—especially for those in rural America.

“We wanted cable in our house, so we built our own cable system,” Boycom president/CEO Patricia Boyers recounts in the latest CFX Video Series interview.

Boycom’s chief exec discusses the challenges of serving 4,000 subscribers spread across five Missouri counties and the small operator’s accomplishments, including building the first fiber-to-the-home subdivision in Butler County, Missouri. View the entire interview as well as others in the CSG International sponsored series here.

 

 

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