Citizens Telephone Coop - Fierce 15 IPTV Innovators 2007

Citizens Telephone Coop

Established, 1914
Floyd, Virginia
www.citizens.coop

Citizens has 24,000 lines for 20,000 customers in 17 counties. The coop came right out of the gate in March of 2005 using both MPEG-2 and Windows Media 9, the Microsoft alternative to MPEG-4, allowing Citizens to offer HD and video-on-demand for its IPTV offering.