Offers High-Speed Data and Internet Access to Las Vegas Businesses
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric Lightwave Inc. (Nasdaq: ELIX),
one of the nation's leading integrated communications providers today
announced the opening of their Las Vegas sales office and the deployment of
high-speed data and Internet access services to Clark County-area businesses.
Initially, the company will offer data services, including frame relay,
Remote NetConnect (a remote network dialup service), ATM (Asynchronous
Transfer Mode) and Transparent LAN (Local Area Network) Services.
"Our high-speed network is specifically designed to meet the local
business community's current and future demand for more bandwidth," said Roy
Addington, Electric Lightwave's Las Vegas general manager. "As businesses
continue to require additional bandwidth, our network delivers the flexibility
to utilize one source for all our customers' data and emerging transmission
needs."
Electric Lightwave has been providing limited telecommunications services,
including videoconferencing and enhanced services, in Nevada since
January 1995 through its Southwest FiberNet connection to Phoenix. Southwest
FiberNet is a long-haul, fiber optic network connecting Las Vegas and Phoenix.
Additional long-haul routes are under construction that will interconnect Las
Vegas with Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Boise, Idaho and Portland, Ore.
Electric Lightwave also announced it expects to complete construction of a
full-service switching facility in Las Vegas to provide businesses with local
and long distance service in the first half of 1999.
"Once construction of our switching facility is complete, we'll be able to
provide Las Vegas businesses everything from local and long distance telephone
service to ISDN connection to ATM," said Addington.
In addition to Las Vegas, the company's national expansion includes plans
to offer data and Internet access services in a number of major markets by the
end of 1998. Electric Lightwave boasts one of the top national Internet
backbones in the nation, according to Boardwatch Magazine.
For more information about national data services in Las Vegas, businesses
can contact Roy Addington in the Las Vegas area at 702-836-8415.
About Electric Lightwave
Electric Lightwave Inc. is an integrated communications provider offering
data and Internet access solutions to businesses nationwide. In the western
United States, the company is a full-service provider offering local and long
distance telephone service, videoconferencing, prepaid services and broadband
transport services to business customers in Seattle, Portland, Ore.,
Sacramento, Phoenix, Ariz., Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho. The company is
headquartered in Vancouver, Wash. Visit Electric Lightwave on the World Wide
Web at http://www.eli.net.
NOTE: All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their
respective owners, with no intent to infringe.
SOURCE Electric Lightwave, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Jack Hardy of Electric Lightwave Inc.,
360-816-3602, or jack_hardy@eli.net; or Michele Ruegg,
425-450-9965, or micheler@kmcgroup.com, or Christina Velasquez,
425-450-9965, or christinav@kmcgroup.com, both of The KMC Group,
for Electric Lightwave
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