National Expansion Plans Continue, Giving Local Businesses a Choice
In Communication Services
VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 9/PRNewswire/ -- Electric Lightwave Inc.
(Nasdaq: ELIX), one of the nation's leading integrated communications
providers, today announced the expansion of its high-speed data and Internet
access services into the San Diego and Dallas markets. These cities are part
of the company's ongoing national expansion plans, which will include Houston,
Austin, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Boston by the end of the year. Electric
Lightwave previously announced the availability of services in San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and
Denver.
"Our ultra high-speed network provides our customers with the flexibility
to utilize one source for all their Internet service and growing e-commerce
needs," said Trent Anderson, regional sales vice president for Electric
Lightwave. "Our network is not only capable of meeting the demands of
businesses in San Diego and Dallas, but will connect them to our growing
national network."
Data services now available in the San Diego and Dallas markets include
frame relay, point-to-point private lines, dedicated Internet access, remote
access dial-up, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and Transparent LAN
(Local Area Network) connections.
With a national fiber optic network and top national ranking by Boardwatch
Magazine as an Internet backbone provider, Electric Lightwave will continue to
support fast and reliable data transmissions for businesses across the
country.
"San Diego and Dallas are part of our strategy to provide services
nationwide," said Anderson. "Our message is simple. We want to be the provider
of choice in transporting large amounts of data for customers choosing to
conduct business on-line."
For more information about services in San Diego, please call
Jim Dic Kard, director of sales at 619-546-2997; for Dallas, contact
John Abraham, general manger for the Southwest at 972-444-2531.
About Electric Lightwave
Electric Lightwave, Inc. is the leading integrated communications provider
of enhanced data services, frame relay, ATM and Internet access solutions to
bandwidth intensive businesses and the growing e-commerce market. The company
offers long distance, data and prepaid services nationwide. As a full-service
provider, the company offers local, long distance, videoconferencing and
high-speed broadband transport via an expanding fiber optic network that
interconnects major markets in the West. The company owns and operates
Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) in the Seattle, Spokane, Wash., Portland,
Ore., Sacramento, Calif., Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho markets.
Headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, the company is on the World Wide Web
at http://www.eli.net.
SOURCE Electric Lightwave Inc.
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CONTACT:
Jack Hardy, 360-816-3602, or
jack_hardy@eli.net, or Enid Lamey, 360-816-4682, or
enid_lamey@eli.net, both of Electric Lightwave, Inc.
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