Jul 30, 2020 | Featured, Making A Difference
Golden West Returns $7.3 Million in Capital Credits to Members Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative is retiring and returning more in capital credits to members this year – $7.3 million total – and is distributing the funds in August, which is a month ahead of...
Jul 23, 2020 | Expert Advice, Featured, Making A Difference
SHAKEN/STIR Will Help Reduce Spoofed Robocalls Receiving unwanted calls, especially robocalls that “spoof” or appear to come from another number, is a top consumer complaint. Thanks to recent action by Congress and the Federal Commissions Commission (FCC), Golden West...
Jul 17, 2020 | Expert Advice, Featured
Bundled Phone Customers Get 300 Long Distance Minutes Monthly With more long distance minutes, Patricia Clausen of Burke can call her adult children out-of-state more often and talk longer. “I call my daughter in Minneapolis, my son in Sioux Falls and another son in...
Jul 17, 2020 | Expert Advice, Featured
Do You Know Who’s Calling? Imagine answering the phone without knowing who was calling. This was the reality before caller identification (ID)* became commonplace about 20 years ago. Some might argue that this still happens today in the form of “spoofing.” A phone...
Jul 15, 2020 | Expert Advice, Featured, People & Places
Golden West Network Handles Increased Demand Think of internet traffic like air traffic. Except instead of planes coming and going from an airport, packets of data continuously enter and leave the network. Engineers monitor and direct traffic by ensuring all data...
Jul 15, 2020 | Featured, Making A Difference, People & Places
Expanding Telemedicine Pandemic Pushes Health System to Accelerate Plans Earlier this year, Monument Health started a two-year plan to rollout an outpatient telemedicine program for its clinics. But instead of following their original timeline, the health system went...
