All-Digital Fiber Optic Network Provides Spokane Businesses High-Speed Data
And Internet Access
SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric Lightwave, Inc.
(Nasdaq: ELIX), an integrated communications provider, today announced the
completion of a state-of-the-art switching facility that will deliver
competitive local and long distance telephone service to Spokane-area business
customers. Now clients have the option to take advantage of Electric
Lightwave's competitive telecommunications services.
In addition to the central switching facility, Electric Lightwave invested
nearly $13 million to construct a 70-mile fiber optic network enabling instant
connectivity to the Seattle area and seven western states. This network
delivers businesses higher speeds, reliability and advanced capabilities.
"Our all-digital, all-fiber optic network brings an alternative to Spokane
businesses as a one-stop telecommunications solution for all of their
communications needs," said Greg Birdsall, Electric Lightwave's Washington
general manager. "Now Spokane businesses have access to one of the nation's
best Internet values for reliability and speed, as well as quality local and
long distance telephone services from one source instead of two or three."
Electric Lightwave also offers a host of other telecommunications services
including videoconferencing, prepaid services, Integrated Services Digital
Network (ISDN) and frame relay technologies. Electric Lightwave's high speed
Internet and data access is offered in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM),
facilitating business on-line.
"Electric Lightwave has made a substantial financial commitment to the
Spokane business community with the completion of this switching facility and
fiber optic network," said Catherine O'Connell, Eastern Washington director of
the office of U.S. Senator Slade Gorton-R. "Spokane businesses now have a
reliable source to meet their increasing capacity needs for access onto the
Information Super Highway. "
For more information about telecommunication services in the Spokane area,
please call 509-363-4500.
About Electric Lightwave
Electric Lightwave, Inc. is an integrated communications provider offering
data and Internet access solutions to businesses nationwide. Regional offices
include San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago and New York. National
expansion plans include Denver, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Dallas, Houston,
Austin, San Diego, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Boston by the end of the year.
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,
Spokane, Boise, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City and Phoenix.
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:
investors, Fletcher Chamberlin, 360-816-3996,
or fletcher_chamberlin@eli.net, or media, Jack Hardy,
360-816-3602, or jack_hardy@eli.net, both of Electric Lightwave
Inc.; or Christina Velasquez of The KMC Group, 425-450-9965, or
christinav@kmcgroup.com, for Electric Lightwave, Inc.
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