The Digital Chisholm Trail.

On August 15, 1906, long before Oklahoma carried a star on the flag, we opened our doors as the Terral Telephone Company. Back then, this was still Indian Territory. Our entire "network" was a single copper line stretched across open ground from Fleetwood to Terral.

There were no switching centers, no automation—just wire, wood poles, and determination. If you needed to reach someone far away, you didn’t dial a number. You raised your voice from a wooden booth in the lobby and hoped the message carried.

The Depression years tested everything. In 1935, our license to operate cost exactly one dollar. But that paper fee hides the truth: this network was paid for in sweat, long nights, and risk.

In 1945, our founder J.E. Frisk fell from a telephone pole while working to keep the lines alive. He gave his life doing the job. That sacrifice is not a footnote in our history—it is the foundation. Reliability here has always meant showing up, no matter the cost.

In 1987, the Segress family took the reins and pushed the company forward without breaking its spine. Hand-crank phones gave way to digital switching.

In 2003, we brought Wireless Broadband to farms, ranches, and oilfields that larger providers ignored. Formerly operating as 81 Broadband, we now build forward as ClearRoute Fiber—pulling glass through the same soil that once held copper, and future-proofing the communities that trusted us first.