Residential telephone subscribers have the right, under federal law, to avoid unwanted telephone solicitations from telemarketers. In implementing the law, the federal government in concert with state governments, has established a national Do-Not-Call Database that telemarketers are obligated to honor.

If you wish to register your telephone number (wireline or wireless) in the Do-Not-Call Database, you may do so by phone (you must call from the phone whose number you wish to register) by calling 1-888-382-1222 (TTY 1-866-290-4236) or over the Internet at www.donotcall.gov.

There is no charge for registering your phone number and the registration is good for five years, after which the registration may be renewed. Once your number is registered, telemarketers have up to 31 days before they stop calling you.

Registration may not eliminate all unwanted calls since political organizations, charities and organizations conducting bona fide telephone surveys are exempt from the law. If at any time, you wish to revoke your registration, you will need to call the number above from the phone whose number you wish to remove from the database.

The UNI vs Missouri State Men’s Basketball game this Friday, January 13th, will be carried on both our Digital and Analog cable systems!

• For Digital customers, the game will be on Comcast SportsNet Plus on Channel 161.
• For non-Digital customers, the game will be on channel 69.

Game time is 7:00 pm. Go Panthers!

The Butler-Bremer Communications Business office will be closed on Monday December 26th for Christmas, and Monday January 2nd for New Years.

Have a Happy and Safe Holiday season, from all your friends at Butler-Bremer.

During a maintenance window, starting at 1:00 am Tuesday November 29th, we will be upgrading the software we use for our Digital TV service. At the completion of the upgrade we will be rebooting the set-top-boxes (STB). This rebooting will cause a loss of service for a short period of time while the STB upgrades.

Does 911 really work as well from a cell phone as it does from a landline phone? Is it worth it to keep your landline for safety? You might be surprised by the results! An Iowa 911 dispatch runs a few test 911 calls from cell phones to see how accurately they can pinpoint your location in an emergency. If you care about your safety, this is a must watch!

Your telephone rings, you pick up the receiver and nobody’s there. Or when you answer the phone, the voice quality is extremely poor. If this has happened to you in the past few months, you’re not alone. In fact, it’s a nationwide problem and it appears to be caused by a practice called “Least Cost Routing.”

In order to avoid paying Telephone Companies like Butler-Bremer to use the network that we built and maintain to complete their calls, long distance companies are manipulating the routes that their long distance telephone calls travel. In many cases, to avoid paying these “access charges,”  calls are being routed to use Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), which are currently exempt from access charges. However, this can also negatively affect the quality of the call. This problem has become so common that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has established a task force to study this issue and will likely be addressing it in the near future.

Like you, we are extremely frustrated about these types of call manipulation and wish we had a simple solution. What we are doing is working with our national and state telephone associations to provide input to the FCC and work towards a resolution to re-establishes the call quality we’ve all come to expect. We will keep you updated on the FCC’s actions to correct this problem in the future.

Once again, the Iowa State football game this Saturday, October 8th, will be carried on both our Digital and Analog cable systems!

• For Digital customers, the game will be on  Comcast SportsNet Plus on Channel 161.
• For non-Digital customers, the game will be on channel 69.

Game time is 6:00 pm. Go Cyclones!

GOOD NEWS COLLEGE FOOTBALL FANS!

The Iowa vs. Iowa State football game this Saturday, September 10^th, will be carried on both our Digital and Analog cable systems!

• For Digital customers, the game will be on  Comcast SportsNet Plus on Channel 161.
• For non-Digital customers, the game will be on channel 69.

Tune in at game time, 11:00 a.m., and enjoy this annual rivalry game.

Butler-Bremer has negotiated a special offer with Starz/Encore and is able to give new subscribers of our Digital TV service one month of the Starz/Encore Multipack free. Starting June 1, 2011 through August 31, 2011 activate our Digital TV service and get 12 channels of Starz & Encore Premium Movies, including 5 additional High Definition channels free.

Call today for details and schedule your installation.

We’ve now have WGN HD available on our Digital TV system. WGN provides a wide variety of programming, including Cubs, White Sox & Bulls games, general family entertainment and movies. We hope you enjoy this new HD channel, tune to Channel 238 today and start enjoying this new HD channel.

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