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Art Brothers, 85, founder of Beehive Telephone, now Beehive Broadband, died Wednesday. Brothers first built a radio telephone system for boaters on Lake Mead, Nevada, said his obituary in The Salt Lake Tribune. That grew into Beehive, covering parts of…

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Nevada and Utah. Brothers built the company using wire he got from military surplus and switching equipment given to him by another phone company, according to the obituary. A funeral service was held Monday in Salt Lake City.