Back in 1916, Golden West Telecommunications was the first company to stretch telephone lines across the remote plains of western South Dakota. Today, Golden West and its subsidiary companies provide service to nearly 40,000 telephone customers, 15,000 Internet subscribers, 3,000 cable television viewers, 3,000 paging customers and more than 200 call center customers, making Golden West a state-wide leader in information, communications and entertainment. The company s telephone services include local and long distance, prepaid phone cards, phone system design and installation, answering services and paging services. In addition, the company offers digital cable, pay-per-view television, high-speed Internet and data networking. Golden West Telecommunications maintains its offices in Wall, S.D.