Small Companies The SLECs in Ohio include: Arcadia Telephone Company (a TDS Telecom Co.) The Arthur Mutual Telephone Company Ayersville Telephone Company Bascom Mutual Telephone Company The Benton Ridge Telephone Company Buckland Telephone Company The Champaign Telephone Company Columbus Grove Telephone Company The Conneaut Telephone Company Continental Telephone Company (a TDS Telecom Co.) Doylestown Telephone Company Farmers Mutual Telephone Company Fort Jennings Telephone Company Frontier Communications of Michigan The Germantown Independent Tel. Co. The Glandorf Telephone Co, Inc. Kalida Telephone Company, Inc. Little Miami Telephone Corp. (a TDS Telecom Co.) McClure Telephone Company Middle Point Home Telephone Co. Minford Telephone Company The New Knoxville Telephone Co. The Nova Telephone Company Oakwood Telephone Company (a TDS Telecom Co.) Orwell Telephone Company The Ottoville Mutual Telephone Co. Pattersonville Telephone Company The Ridgeville Telephone Company Sherwood Mutual Tel. Association Inc, The Sycamore Telephone Company Vanlue Telephone Company (a TDS Telecom Co.) Vaughnsville Telephone Company Wabash Mutual Telephone Company There are 34 small local exchange carriers (SLECs), each serving fewer than 15,000 access lines in Ohio. These companies have 54 exchanges, mostly in rural areas, and serve a total of 84,000 access lines. They provide employment for more than 500 Ohioans. Although small, these businesses are a significant part of the state economy with gross operating revenues in excess of $50 million annually. Almost all of the companies offer digital technology and their network contains more than 3,000 route miles of fiber optic cable, most of it underground. In addition to providing telecommunications services, the small local exchange carriers are generous corporate citizens. In recent years they have donated telephones, engineering expertise and wiring design to prepare for SchoolNet; offered voice mail systems for homework hotlines; provided coaxial cable to wire classrooms; wired school computers; provided two-way interactive educational TV on fiber optic cable; and served on school district planning committees.

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