Did You Know?
Searcy, AR is home to Yarnell Ice Cream Company. It is the only ice cream company in the state and started in 1932.
Telecommunications
Today companies are building regional and national customer care centers to better satisfy their customers' needs for information and service. You may not first think of Central Arkansas as a hub for technology and telecommunications, but with major national companies such as Alltel, SBC Communications, and Acxiom based here, perhaps you should.
The Metro Little Rock region has a robust and diverse economy, highly educated workforce, one of America's lowest per capita tax structures, and many fiber-optic ready commercial sites making it ideal for technology and telecommunications intensive companies to locate here.
In the past year alone, we have seen Pinnacle Business Solutions, a division of Arkansas Blue Cross/Blue Shield; FTD.com, and Cardinal Health all open major national or regional call centers in the Metro Little Rock Region. They know that this is the place for technology businesses that rely on having reliable, high quality telecommunications infrastructures to support mission critical operations.
Below is a list of telecommunications providers.
Major Local Carriers
| Carrier |
|---|
| dba Pinnacle Communications |
| dba Ritter Telephone Company |
| Alltel Arkansas, Inc. |
| Arkansas Telephone Company |
| Central Arkansas Telephone Cooperative |
| CenturyTel of Arkansas, Inc. |
| CenturyTel of Central Arkansas, LLC |
| CenturyTel of Mountain Home, Inc. |
| CenturyTel of Northwest Arkansas, LLC |
| CenturyTel of Northwest Louisiana, Inc. |
| CenturyTel of Redfield, Inc. |
| CenturyTel of South Arkansas, Inc. |
| Cleveland County Telephone Company, Inc. |
| Decatur Telephone Company, Inc. |
| E.Ritter Telephone Company |
| Lavaca Telephone Company, Inc. |
| Madison County Telephone Company, Inc. |
| Magazine Telephone Company |
| Mountain View Telephone Company |
| Northern Arkansas Telephone Company, Inc. |
| Ozark Telephone Company of Missouri |
| Prairie Grove Telephone Company |
| Rice Belt Telephone Company, Inc. |
| Scott County Telephone Co., Inc. |
| South Arkansas Telephone Company, Inc. |
| Southwest Arkansas Telephone Cooperative, Inc. |
| Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P. |
| Tri-County Telephone Company |
| Valor Telecommunications of Texas, LP |
| Walnut Hill Telephone Company |
| Yelcot Telephone Company |
| Yell County Telephone Company |
Internet Access Providers
| County |
Provider |
City |
Zip |
| Perry |
AR. B.B.S Internet Service |
Perryville |
72126 |
| Pulaski |
Alltel |
Little Rock |
72201 |
|
Aristotle |
Little Rock |
72201 |
|
AT&T |
Little Rock |
72201 |
|
Genesis Broadband Wireless |
Little Rock |
72201 |
|
ShareNet Marketing |
Benton |
72015 |