Today any Generation Z teenager could tell you the millennium was, like, so seven years ago.

Perhaps that's one reason why Millennium Digital Media Systems opted instead to go with the moniker "Broadstripe" after an ownership transfer. It provides phone, Internet and TV services to 40,000 customers north of Route 50.

Millennium informed the County Council July 7 that a shareholder, Highland Crusaders Offshore Partners, which used to own about 40 percent of the company's interest, is investing further in the company, taking on 92 percent ownership. The two companies are applying for a transfer of control of the company's...