TENINO TELEPHONE COMPANY

Tenino Telephone Company is a locally-owned, independent telephone company located in Tenino, Washington. We provide business and residential telecommunications services to Tenino and surrounding areas of rural southern Thurston County. We offer the best of both worlds in today's telecommunications industry: the latest technology, in a friendly, customer-oriented small town manner... In 1955, the Company converted from the operator manned cord boards to the dial system. Tenino was assigned the prefix "C" "O" "4" and Bucoda was assigned the prefix "B" "R" "8", known today as "264" and "278". The first dial system telephones were rotary dial. It wasn't until the mid-1970's that touch tone dialing came into existence. However, Tenino offered this feature seven years before it was available to the much larger neighboring communities such as Centralia and Chehalis.

Also known as: Tenino Telephone

Primary location: Tenino United States