Telecom Service & Solution

Based in Washington, D.C., COMPTEL is the leading industry association representing competitive communications service providers and their supplier partners. COMPTEL members are entrepreneurial companies driving technological innovation and creating economic growth through competitive voice, video, and data offerings and the development and deployment of next-generation, IP-based networks and services. COMPTEL advances its members’ interests through trade shows, networking, education, and policy advocacy before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and the courts. COMPTEL works to ensure that competitive communications providers can continue to offer lower prices, better service, and greater innovation to consumers.

Net Insight delivers the worlds most efficient and scaleable optical transport solution for Broadcast and Media, Digital Terrestrial TV/Mobile TV and IPTV/CATV networks. Net Insight products truly deliver 100 percent Quality of Service with three times improvement in utilization of bandwidth for a converged transport infrastructure. Net Insight’s NimbraTM Platform is the industry solution for video, voice and data, reducing operational costs by 50 percent and enhancing competitiveness in delivery of existing and new media services. World class customers run mission critical video services over Net Insight products for more than 100 million people in more than 20 countries. Net Insight is quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.

Global Communicators, founded in 1997 by three veteran public relations and marketing professionals, is the communications organization of the future! While Global Communicators maintains its core office in the heart of the nation's capital, our professional team members are based throughout the United States and abroad. The firm maintains strategic alliances with offices in Los Angeles for West Coast coverage and St. Louis for Mid-Continent services.

Data Network Associates provides physical layer network infrastructure services of the highest caliber. Established in February of 1992, we offer over ten years of experience in designing and building structured cabling systems that are capable of satisfying our customers' current and future business and communications needs. From mission-critical system conversions to complete corporate office installations, we provide the level of service and expertise that is required for today's complex communications systems.

ADC’s industry-leading portfolio of network infrastructure solutions and services allows our customers to provide advanced, differentiating services to meet their own customers’ unrelenting demand for bandwidth. This global demand for bandwidth offers unique growth opportunities for ADC in fiber-based and wireless communications networks, not only in industrialized countries but in developing nations as well.

Embarq Corporation (NYSE: EQ), headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, offers a complete suite of communications services. The company has approximately 18,000 employees and operates in 18 states. EMBARQ is included in the S&P 500 and is in the Fortune 500® list of America’s largest corporations. For consumers, EMBARQ offers an innovative portfolio of services that includes reliable local and long distance home phone service, high-speed Internet, wireless, and satellite TV from DISH Network® -- all on one monthly bill. For businesses, EMBARQ has a comprehensive range of flexible and integrated services designed to help businesses of all sizes be more productive and communicate with their customers. This service portfolio includes local voice and data services, long distance, Business Class High Speed Internet, wireless, satellite TV from DIRECTV®, enhanced data network services, voice and data communication equipment and managed network services. EMBARQ believes that by focusing on the communities the company serves and by employing common sense and practical ingenuity, it is able to provide customers with a committed partner, dedicated customer service and innovative products for work and home.

We developed our DuoCARE program to bring technological expertise to our membership as a way of ensuring Duo County customers have the best experience with today's technologies.

The Yellowbook story is one of sustained success and growth.Through acquisitions and new directory launches, we've grown from serving a small region on Long Island to meeting the buying information needs of the nation.Today, we offer advanced online search options and nearly 1,000 print directories that connect buyers and sellers in towns across America.

In February of 1951, more than 400 farmers from Ramsey, Towner, Cavalier, Nelson, and Benson counties met in Devils Lake, ND to discuss forming a rural telephone cooperative. An 11-man organizing committee was elected. The organizing committee met again April 6, 1951, at the county agent's office in Devils Lake and decided on the name United Telephone Cooperative. The committee also made plans to submit a loan request for $3,750,000 to the Rural Electrification Administration. Representatives of the proposed cooperative met in Jamestown, ND July 11th and 12th, 1951 with representatives of similar organizations to discuss service territories.

FSH provides communications, content, access and digital merchandising services for consumer and business customers. On May 7, 2004, FSH entered the communications business by purchasing the payphone assets of Qwest Communications International, Inc (Qwest). This provided FSH with a 17 state geographic presence and continued a 100-year heritage of serving the needs of customers in the Western United States. Qwest remains the primary supplier of access lines, to FSH. In addition, FSH continues to use the Qwest brand on public instruments.