Eastex Telephone Cooperative

Eastex also serves areas replete with lakes, rivers and streams. In fact, the Cooperative's service area houses a portion of the largest man-made body of water in Texas, the Toledo Bend Reservoir, which has an area of 185,0000 acres. Eastex's area also includes Lake Livingston, an 83,000 acre lake with a shore length of over 450 miles. Due to limited access across these lakes, as well as the numerous rivers and streams, Eastex expends additional resources to lay facilities around these bodies of water. Eastex also has the unique challenge of providing service to five non-contiguous areas which are separated by hundreds of miles. Often, transport facilities necessary to connect these areas, and to provide the FCC mandated broadband services are expensive, not available, or inadequate. Eastex continues to seek and find solutions to meet this challenge.