Spectracomm (Arkwest Communications)

Arkwest Communications, earlier known as Yell County Telephone, was started by Omer and Ethel Sanders in 1939 with one payphone and zero private customers. The company was run out of the couples home, which is still to this day a part of the current business office. They were the first company in Arkansas to offer caller ID and to go solely one-party and do away with party lines. In recent years, the evolution of lightwave and fiber optic technology has allowed them to offer a more robust suite of broadband services. Arkwest envisions itself as a broadband provider in the years to come. They are doing everything they can to prepare their network for any broadband applications that develop in this rapidly evolving period of their industry.