from Pine Belt's Randy Vick, Manager of Plant Operations for Pine Belt Landline and 30 year employee.

"When I started here about 30 years ago, we had just four central offices and our offices still had four-party lines. We now have 46 Remote Digital Terminals serving areas all on protected Fiber Rings, and we will soon be 100% DSL capable for all of our landline customers. Also, watching the progression of our cellular tower build out from that first one to 46 today has been exciting. It's great to have played a part in this. Looking back it doesn’t seem that long ago for any of the above...we must have been busy!

Pine Belt just delivers better service. It’s that simple. Most repair requests are handled same day. New service installations are installed much faster than other companies. The difference between Pine Belt and other companies can be summed up in two words. We care. A neighbor’s telephone service drop was cut accidentally after hours. I dug it up and made a temporary splice on it to restore their service. You hardly ever have to deal or talk with a machine and you know who you are dealing with.

Dr. Nettles was a fun loving person, he would tell me a joke almost every time we talked. I think the vision he had was to do all the things that actually have been accomplished and provide the highest quality of services to customers in the rural areas we serve."