Phonoscope Communications

Phonoscope Communications is a broadband and cable television provider with corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas.

Lee Cook, Founder and CEO -

As one of Houston's most prominent businessmen that nobody seems to truly know, the elusive Lee Cook was transferred to Houston from The Manhattan Project by bankers W.T. Carter and Jesse H. Jones in the early 1950s. They, with the involvement of entertainment tycoon Bing Crosby, founded Phonoscope in 1953. The group launched the city's first cable television company in downtown Houston, and introduced video conferencing service to high rise office buildings in the mid 1950s. Later ventures into the education and medical fields with their '2-way' television allowed Phonoscope to become designated as a Texas public utility company. Phonoscope stands today as the oldest and largest privately owned/operated metropolitan area fiber network in North America, and remains the preferred choice for secure commercial and residential telecommunications in Houston and surrounding Texas counties.

External links

• Phonoscope website
• Phonoscope Cable website
• http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2005/01/17/story2.html
• http://impactnews.com/round-rock-pflugerville/all-local-news?daterange=42006