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Taking Extraordinary Precautions Against International Fraud

Here is an interesting article highlighting a very important problem in the industry today. Utility Telephone takes extraordinary precautions to safeguard your network and your pocketbook. If you are a Utility Telephone customer, we automatically offer call-barring features to block access to all international numbers. We’ve taken the initiative to…

Octagon Barn Center Challenges National Tear-Down Demand

With help from local sponsor, Utility Telephone, The Land Conservancy unveiled its final vision of what the future San Luis Obispo Octagon Barn Center will be for the Central Coast. Despite a national demand for old barn wood from the building and design community, the historic Octagon Barn will remain…

Utility Telephone Connects with Creative Interconnect Communications

STOCKTON, CA, – March 6, 2012 – Utility Telephone, Inc. (Utility), the premier integrated provider of business telecommunications in California and Northern Nevada, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire the customer base and network assets of San Carlos-based Metro Ethernet and Hosted VoIP provider Creative Interconnect Communications, LLC (CIC).…

Utility Telephone Upgrades Reno-Tahoe Network with Metaswitch Universal Media Gateway

STOCKTON, CA, – March 10, 2011 – Utility Telephone, Inc. (Utility), the premier integrated provider of business telecommunications in California and Northern Nevada, today announced upgrades to its Reno-Tahoe network to better serve its voice business customers in the area. With the deployment of a new, local Metaswitch Universal Media…

Utility Telephone to Acquire Minden-based WPTI Telecom

Carson City Now.org Utility Telephone, Inc. will acquire the customer base and network assets of Minden-based DSL and VoIP provider WPTI Telecom, LLC. Under the terms of the agreement, Utility will acquire customers throughout the Reno, Carson City and Douglas-county markets, and will add a substantial DSL footprint to Utility’s…

Utility Telephone Pledges Record $150,000 to Octagon Barn Center

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA – The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County announces a  $150,000 sponsorship pledge towards the Octagon Barn project from Utility Telephone, a  local business telephone and Internet provider. It is the largest corporate donation made to the project in the organization’s history and provides resources…

Call America Has a New Name

The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, CA) San Luis Obispo-based telecommunications company Call America Inc. has changed its name to Utility Telephone. The name change comes five years after Stockton-based Utility Telephone acquired the company. Utility Telephone has 22 employees at its San Luis Obispo office.

Ribbon Cutting: Utility Telephone

Longtime Chamber member, Utility Telephone, finally slowed down enough to have a ribbon cutting at their corporate office in San Luis Obispo. Utility Telephone has developed a business approach that takes the philosophy of “Customer First” to a new level in the telecom industry. They have created a network of…