Ponderosa Broadband is built on more than a century of unwavering commitment to connecting rural communities—first through Ponderosa Telephone Company in California and now across Arizona with Table Top Telephone Company.

Our story begins in 1908, when the Bigelow family launched Bigelow Telephone Company to bring voice service into the remote logging and farming towns of the Sierra Nevada foothills. Over the decades, we replaced crank-style party lines with dial tone, introduced touch-tone dialing in the 1980s, and ran our first fiber-optic trunk line in 1991—always investing ahead of the curve to keep our neighbors plugged into the world. Today, under the umbrella of Ponderosa Communications, Inc., we engineer GPON and XGS-PON networks that deliver 1 Gbps—and up to 10 Gbps symmetrical—speeds to homes and businesses, knowing that broadband is as essential as water and power.

In 1993, that same pioneering spirit crossed state lines when Stageline Communications (a Ponderosa affiliate) incorporated Table Top Telephone Company to serve rural southwestern Arizona. From hot desert flats to craggy mesas, Table Top combines fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and high-capacity fixed wireless (WISP) using Cambium backhaul and Calix GigaSpire in-home Wi-Fi. Our engineers don’t blink at rocky terrain or long utility runs—they specialize in joint-trench projects that keep costs low and schedules on track.

Today, Ponderosa Broadband marries these two proud legacies. We’re family-owned and debt-free, not beholden to private-equity timelines. We build, own, and maintain every mile of our network, and we partner closely with builders, municipalities, and contractors to embed conduit during dry-utility trenching—saving 5×–10× compared to retrofits and future-proofing every new development.

Whether you’re launching a housing community outside Prescott or upgrading a ranch in Madera County, Ponderosa Broadband brings real-world expertise, financial stability, and a genuine passion for empowering rural areas with world-class connectivity. Welcome to the next chapter in rural broadband—rooted in history, engineered for tomorrow.