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Eastex Telephone Cooperative famously known as East Texas Telephone Company working with a motto ‘Serving rural East Texas’. When several Companies were not able to provide telephone service for the residents of rural Rusk County and adjoining counties in 1940 because of lack of feasibility, Congress passed an amendment to Rural Electrification Act in 1949. The amendment helped existing telecom operators and newly established telecom operators with loans. In 1950 loan was provided to a cooperative in Rusk County and a Charter was granted to EASTEX TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC. Charter was started with very few people. Company survived by trial and error since there was no experienced skill with REA and this was a new venture for rural electrification. In 1951, Henderson was selected as permanent headquarters of the Cooperative. Finally in 1952 operations were started at Laneville and Good springs Exchanges with 204 subscribers.

When Eastex purchased Elysian Fields exchange, Eastex split the Elysian Fields exchange area into two exchanges, the exchange of DeBerry and Oak Hill. Eastex increased its market presence gradually by various acquisitions. In 1956 it acquired Waskom. In late 1950’s it acquired the Maydelle, Chester and Goodrich exchanges.

In 1954 when people in the rural area of Livingston which is located 100 miles south of Henderson were not able to receive the telecom services, Eastex established three telephone exchanges. It established Hudson telephone exchange where there wasn’t a single telephone. In 1961 exchange of cold spring was established. In 1963 established service in the Huxley community about 18 miles east of Center, Texas.

Thus from the day of its induction Eastex telephone cooperative always tried to serve rural of East Texas. Today it has twenty one exchanges, with modern technologies like digital switching, 200 miles of fiber optic and 4000 route miles of buried cable. Today it provides services to 30,000 subscribers in eleven counties. The counties served are Rusk, Panola, Cherokee, Shelby, Harrison, Hardin, Liberty, Tyler, San Jacinto, Polk and Walker. It was started with 14 employees. Today it has 137 full time employees and seven Board of directors. Eastex was one of the first telephone cooperatives to be established. Eastex is one of the largest telephone cooperative in the state of Texas.


Various Products and services offered by the Eastex Telephone Cooperative are:

Eastex Telephone service
Eastex Net (web accelerator)
Eastex Long distance calling
Caller ID
Enhanced Custom Calling
Equipment & Systems Installations
Local Internet Access
Local Telephone Service
Fast 567k V.92 Modems
Internet Security
Full time technical support
Low Income Assistance.

Apart from its telecom service to the Texas people, the cooperative is also involved in various commitments to the communities. Funds donated by the cooperative were used to help purchase books titled “Eight keys for a better me’ for the third grade classes of Henderson’s Chamberlain Elementary School. The cooperative also provides Telephone Assistance program for low income households. Eatex tied up with Lifeline, Link Up, and Toll Limitation Service (TLS) which help keep Americans connected by making basic, local telephone service more affordable.

City:	Lueders
State:	Texas
Zip Code:	79533
County:	Jones
County Population:	19736
Time Zone:	Central

Type:	Landline
Date of registration:	31/08/2003
Time:	02/14/2012 21:40:13 PM
Rate Center:	Lueders
Switch CLLI:	LDRSTXXADS0
OCN:	10180