Alpharetta, GA – (August 2024) – GOCare, a leading SaaS provider of digital experience software, in collaboration with Dialpad, Inc., the industry-leading AI-powered Customer Communications Platform, is excited to announce that Eastex Telephone Cooperative, Inc. a fiber-focused service provider based in Texas, has selected GOCare’s and Dialpad’s integrated digital experience and UCaaS platforms to elevate Eastex’s customer experience. This integration enhances Eastex’s customer strategy of deploying best-in-breed solutions by integrating GOCare and Dialpad tools with CDG Elements OSS/BSS, and Adtran network insight tools.
Partnering with GOCare and Dialpad enables Eastex to expand its communication channels for both employees and customers to include options such as two-way SMS, social media, online chat, and SMS chat. All communication streams are unified to a single platform delivering a comprehensive view of the customer experience, and empowering dynamic communication across each step of the customer journey.
“Our customers, who are our members, are always our top priority,” said Ben McTee, assistant manager at Eastex. “We want to make it convenient for our customers to reach us and receive important information and assistance in the most efficient manner. Our partnership with GOCare and Dialpad enables us to meet our customers where they are, and improve their overall experience, while providing intuitive tools for our customer service and support staff.”
“We are honored by Eastex’s confidence in GOCare’s solution. GOCare delivers leading digital experience solutions to the broadband industry,” said Mike Roddy, CEO at GOCare. “Our technology, coupled with the team’s broadband operator experience, sets us apart from other SaaS solutions that try to generically address customer experience issues. At GOCare, we believe that technology is a means to the end, not THE END. Consequently, we focus on the results our client-partners achieve. We look forward to working with Eastex’s team to ensure a long-term, collaborative relationship,” concluded Roddy.
Dialpad’s AI-Powered Customer Communications Platform offers advanced capabilities across AI Contact Center, AI Scorecards, AI Sales, AI Voice and AI meetings to provide next-generation guidance and support during all interactions. The combined solution will also enhance customer satisfaction through robust Net Promoter Score® (NPS) / CSAT metrics and actionable dashboards for Eastex.
“Partnering with GOCare has allowed us to bring even more innovation and flexibility to a broad group of customers,” said Senior Vice President of Global Partner Sales with Dialpad, Mike Kane. “We’re thrilled to be working with Eastex to support connectivity in rural East Texas. With GOCare and Dialpad, the Eastex team can leverage advanced tooling under one seamless and easy-to-use communications platform.”
Another key factor in this overall partnership is GOCare’s strong integration capabilities with Eastex’s ecosystem partners such as Adtran and CDG.
“CDG is excited to collaborate with GOCare and Dialpad to deepen the integration between their digital experience suite and our CDG Elements OSS/BSS platform,” added Tony Stout, CTO of CDG. “Extending our integration to enable Eastex’s staff and subscribers timely access to critical information made perfect sense from an efficiency standpoint. We look forward to bringing additional value to our growth-oriented clients like Eastex. CDG and GOCare both share an operator background which further strengthens our partnership.”
“The Adtran Mosaic One SaaS platform empowers providers to fully harness their data through actionable insights. Our collaboration with GOCare significantly enhances this capability, integrating real-time customer interactions with network health. This enables Eastex to proactively respond to subscriber needs, enriching the customer experience and driving operational excellence,” added Robert Conger, GM of Software Platforms and Strategy at Adtran.
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About Eastex Telephone
Eastex Telephone Cooperative, Inc. has over 70 years of experience bringing essential communications technology to eleven counties across rural East Texas. Today, Eastex and its affiliates and subsidiaries Eastex.Net and ECS Security and Automation are proud to deliver top-quality broadband Internet, voice, high-capacity data transport, WiFi, and security and automation services to thousands of subscribers from three regional business offices in Henderson, Livingston and Waskom, Texas. For more information about Eastex, please visit www.eastex.com
About GOCare
GOCare provides software solutions to the broadband and utility industries. Our SaaS portfolio includes a complete digital experience platform, proprietary SMS Chat functionality, Secure Payments, multi-platform NPS scoring, and a sophisticated analytics engine allowing our clients to benchmark their performance against other similar operators. GOCare was founded by industry veterans and incorporates its mission of “By Operators, For Operators” into how they partner with broadband industry leaders such as Vexus Fiber, Point Broadband, Bluepeak, Service Electric Cablevision, Fastwyre Broadband, Blue Stream Fiber, and many others. www.gocarecx.com
About Dialpad
Dialpad is the leading AI-Powered Customer Communications Platform unifying and advancing customer and employee communications. With a flexible and intuitive workspace, Dialpad seamlessly brings the advanced and real-time AI tools for more 30,000 innovative brands and millions of people unlocking productivity, collaboration, and customer satisfaction. Visit www.dialpad.com to learn more.
About CDG
CDG provides cloud-based, SaaS-delivered OSS/BSS solutions for voice, video, data, and circuit services for retail and wholesale telecommunications carriers and service providers. Our open architecture, operator-driven solutions include: BDS, Interconnect, CABS, Mediation, Customer Care, Invoicing, Network Elements, Ticketing, Service Provisioning, E-Care (EBPP), Workflow, CRM Prospects, and third-party financial, mapping, and facilities management products. Visit www.cdg.ws to learn more.
About Adtran
ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN and FSE: QH9) is the parent company of Adtran, Inc., a leading global provider of open, disaggregated networking and communications solutions that enable voice, data, video and internet communications across any network infrastructure. From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, Adtran empowers communications service providers around the world to manage and scale services that connect people, places and things. Adtran solutions are used by service providers, private enterprises, government organizations and millions of individual users worldwide. ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. is also the largest shareholder of Adtran Networks SE, formerly ADVA Optical Networking SE. Find more at Adtran, LinkedIn and X.
Media Contacts:
GOCare – Mike Roddy | [email protected] | Eastex – Kaitlin Puckett | [email protected]
Dialpad – Armi Banaria | [email protected] | CDG – Ryan Travaille: | [email protected]
Adtran – Gareth Spence | [email protected]