Radio Shack District Award of Excellence Announed

In less than three years, CentraCom Technology and RadioShack store has become an icon of the main street marketplace in Mt. Pleasant. There were many that doubted the viability of this type of business in such a small community. Mindee Tucker has been managing the store since it opened. The community has supported the business which is helping keep the downtown business district of Mt. Pleasant vibrant. The store provides all of the Radio Shack products plus Alltel phone distribution. The store also contains the CentraCom Internet department. Recently, we’ve added computer repair service. CentraCom technicians will diagnose problems with the customers’ computers. They will then repair the problem with the help of a new partnership with PC Rehab.

In December 2008, RadioShack awarded the CentraCom Technology Store its 2008 District Award of Excellence. The District award, announced Dec. 24 by Vice President of RadioShack Franchise Operations Paul Rickels, recognizes CentraCom’s years of service with RadioShack marked by consistent sales performance, participation in the RadioShack Franchise program and presenting the best image of RadioShack in the community. The CentraCom store employees take great pride in what they do for the CentraCom Technology and RadioShack store. They represent the RadioShack values in our community of integrity, outstanding products to sell and home town values the community appreciates. They go the “extra mile” to let our customers know they are the best. We believe they deserve the best service from a hometown-owned RadioShack franchise.

Beside the great technology tools, a large part of the store has many technology gadgets and toys including iPod, Xbox, PlayStation, cameras, televisions, remote-control toys and much more. Other services include a convenient sign-up location for CentraCom services such as Telephone, Long Distance, High-Speed Internet and Digital Cable TV, plus a convenient location for bill payment. The CentraCom Technology Store is a one-stop location for all of your technology needs.

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Earn a Snow College Scholarship from CentraCom Interactive

It’s the time of year when high school seniors are thinking about the next great step in their lives—college. They are thinking about where to go, where to live, and what classes to take. College is a wonderful experience but it can get expensive in a hurry. Application fees, tuition, student fees, housing, books… the list goes on and on.

Here at CentraCom Interactive we are committed to helping the students in our service areas achieve their goal of a college education. For the past eleven years, CentraCom Interactive has offered scholarships to eligible high school seniors planning to attend college. This has been a great opportunity not only to serve our community, but to get to know future leaders of America.

We are pleased to announce that we have again partnered with Snow College to bring even larger scholarship value. We will be giving away six scholarships with an initial value of $500. If the recipient chooses to attend Snow College, the scholarship from CentraCom will be $1000 and Snow College will match $250 raising the value to $1250. The scholarship may be used for any college expense, such as tuition, books, housing, etc.

If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please contact Laura Christensen at (435) 427-0642 or (800) 427-8449 to obtain an application. You may also e-mail Laura. Additionally, you may download an application by visiting our web site at www.centracom.com/scholarship.

The requirements are:

• must be a high school senior planning to attend college in the fall of 2009, and also a legal dependent of a CentraCom Interactive customer.
• must fully complete and sign the 2009 scholarship application form and include a photograph.
• submit a typed double-spaced 500-word essay.
• provide a current copy of your high school transcript, stating cumulative grade point average.
• provide a copy of your ACT results.
• provide a personal evaluation/recommendation of your principal or teacher of the student’s high school.
• provide at least one letter of recommendation from an employer, school official, civic or religious leader from the community where applicant resides.

Completed applications must be postmarked no later than April 20, 2009 and mailed to CentraCom, PO Box 7, Fairview, UT 84629, or delivered to our office at 35 South State, Fairview, UT 84629.

A committee will evaluate all of the applications submitted. The selection of the successful candidates will be based on the following criteria:

1. originality and creativity in presenting the essay,
2. noteworthy involvement in community service and school activities, and
3. future goals demonstrating a genuine interest in continuing education.

The chosen candidates will be notified by telephone and by mail. The winners will also be featured in our June newsletter.

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Channel 10 and Your Event

Local Channel 10 is getting better each day. Our mission is to provide our viewers with information and entertainment from around our communities. Thanks to Ideal Living, Utah Valley Sports Network and many others, we are showing many local events in Sevier, Sanpete and Utah counties. We will begin a news program in the coming weeks. Also, watch as we partner more with the local schools to provide valuable television production experience to them.

If you have an event that you would like shown on Channel 10, please let us know. We will send someone to record it. We also have several DV Cameras available for you to use if you’d like to record the event yourself. You may call Nate Palmer at (435) 427-0542 or visit www.local10.tv for more information.

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Online Support Chat

CentraCom is redesigning the web site centracom.com. With the growth of the company, more and more information is being accessed from the web site.

A new online support chat is now available on the web site. This feature will allow CentraCom customers to chat with Customer Service Representatives in real-time while working on their computer. If you have a quick question about any of our services or need help configuring your DVR, we can help. Just go to www.centracom.com and click the support button, then select the appropriate chat support.

Additionally, a new ebill system is being designed and will be launched soon. This new system will provide more flexibility and information for your account. And as we continue to grow, we will soon be offering an online order form. We expect these changes to boost the efficiency of the company which helps us to keep the quality of service up and the cost down.

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CentraCom Expands services to Nevada

February 1, 2009: CentraCom completes purchase of Precis Communications Cable TV customers in four Nevada communities.

We are very excited to welcome our new customers from the Nevada communities of Wendover, Ely, Ruth, McGill and Eureka.

In 2005, CentraCom became a major cable TV service provider when it purchased the Precis Communications Cable TV System in Sevier and Sanpete County. Since that purchase, CentraCom has actively upgraded the systems. This has been an enormous undertaking. Initially there were five different headends. (A headend is the location where the video signal is received and then carried to each subscriber.) Each headend had different receiving capabilities and thus created a very expensive upgrade. CentraCom then connected each community with a fiber-optic network. Now those five headends have been consolidated into one headend. Because of that upgrade, CentraCom has been able to provide those communities with a higher bandwidth cable system allowing high-speed cable modem Internet service and crystal-clear high definition (HD) television. These upgrades also make it possible to keep rates low.

Now CentraCom has plans to make the same upgrades to the Nevada communities. All facilities will be upgraded as quickly as possible to get more channels and other broadband services. In the near future, Wendover will get high-speed Internet service and HD television. Following that upgrade, many more enhancements to the other communities will be upgraded for more high-bandwidth services.

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