VendTek offers a fresh take on prepaid. The company's eFresh software lets retail customers purchase prepaid wireless and long-distance phone service and reloadable debit cards through point-of-sale terminals and self-serve vending machines. Its software uses voucher or PIN numbers in place of the card, reducing the need for inventory in the retail store. Its Now Prepay division uses eFresh software to sell prepaid phone service through retail partners. VendTek sells to retailers, distributors, and service providers, focusing on the telecom and financial services markets. Customers have included Bank of America, Canada Post, Qwest, and Visa International. Privinvest Holding owns nearly one-quarter of the company.

Edgewater Networks develops products that ensure the secure and reliable delivery of IP based voice and video for service providers and enterprises. Edgewater's products offer proven network and operational savings from the customer premises to the core of the network. EdgeMarc Series routers provide a VoIP aware NAT/Firewall, VoIP survivability, passive call quality monitoring and powerful but easy-to-use traffic management that ensures high quality voice and video. EdgeConnect managed Power over Ethernet switches provide simplified administration, remote configuration and QoS for converged voice, video and data networks. The EdgeView VoIP Support System offers proactive call quality monitoring (including VoIP MOS), Plug & Dial IP phone configuration, and remote management and monitoring of VoIP endpoints.

Broadview Networks seeks to expand its customers' horizons. The company provides such telecommunications services as local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet access, and Web hosting. It caters primarily to small and midsized businesses, serving 10 states in the northeastern and mid- Atlantic US; Broadview serves such major metropolitan markets as Baltimore, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. The company's enterprise data services include hosted business networks, as well as hosted computer telephony services (sold under the OfficeSuite brand), which are offered nationwide. MCG Capital is the majority shareholder of Broadview Networks.

Phyworks was acquired by Maxim in 2010. Phyworks' chips said "Fie!" to slow telecommunication links. The company offered serializer/deserializer devices and other microchips used in fiber-optic modules for high-speed LAN, SAN, and WAN equipment. The fabless semiconductor company was founded in 2001 by industry veterans; it outsourced production to silicon foundries (contract semiconductor manufacturers), including Taiwan Semiconductor and Jazz Semiconductor. Phyworks touted its chips as being less expensive and less power-hungry than typical devices of the same type.

North State Communications is the incumbent local-exchange carrier (ILEC) for a 600-square-mile service area in north central North Carolina, serving such communities as High Point, Thomasville, and Archdale. The company offers local and long-distance voice service, as well as dial-up and high-speed Internet access to residential and business customers. Other data services include Web and email hosting. It also sells wireless phone service through an arrangement with AT&T Mobility and satellite television through DirecTV under the Plex brand. The company additionally sells ads in and publishes the North State Yellow Pages directory. North State began operating in 1895 as the High Point Telephone Exchange.

Spain's #2 mobile phone group, Vodafone España was one of the first carriers to challenge incumbent Telefónica and its market-leading Telefónica Móviles unit. The company, a subsidiary of UK-based global communications provider Vodafone Group, has about 16 million wireless customers making it the fourth largest geographic segment by subscribers for its parent company. In addition to wireless voice services, which account for the bulk of sales, Vodafone España also provides text messaging and other data services such as the wireless news and multimedia programming. The company's fixed-line operations include broadband DSL services for business customers which are sold under the Vodafone Office banner.

H3C Technologies Co., Limited (H3C), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), is a leading global supplier of IP-based products and solutions. With principal operations in Hangzhou, China, H3C employs 4,800 people worldwide. To maintain a level of innovation and technical excellence, H3C operates advanced R&D facilities in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shenzhen in China; invests more than 15 percent of revenues back into R&D every year and has more than half of the workforce engaged in research and development. Till now, it has applied for more than 2,800 patents, 85% of which are original invention patents. Reflecting the future trends of “open and convergence”, H3C initiated the IToIP architecture concept, which aims to build a converged network infrastructure integrating networking, security, storage and multimedia communication, so as to enable service-oriented applications for customers. Guided by innovative IToIP architecture, H3C built a full series of IP products and solutions, including routers, LAN switches, network security, WLAN, IP multimedia, intelligent management software etc. It has successfully transformed from a networking vendor to a total IToIP solution provider, and has built a strong footprint in one of the world’s most dynamic markets. Currently, H3C holds the No.1 position in China’s enterprise networking market.Together with its parent company HP, H3C has secured the No.2 position in the global networking market. In addition, H3C’s video surveillance system has become the No.1 choice for China’s nationwide Safe City project, with applications spanning across more than 160 cities. H3C sells its products and solutions through more than 3,300 channel partners in Greater China. The company also has a high-caliber direct touch sales team, working closely with partners to explore the potential of H3C solutions for its customers. In the rest of world, H3C leverages HP's global resources to sell H3C products and solutions to the worldwide customers.

Rain or shine, The Cloud covers your hotspot needs. The Cloud provides public access Wi-Fi networks in thousands of locations across Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. The company isn't an ISP itself, but acts as an aggregator of more than 20 commercial ISPs, signing up and managing network services for hotspot operators that then offer the service to consumers. End users who aren't subscribers of the supported ISPs can use The Cloud's networks on a pay-as-you-go basis. The company provides access offerings to the corporate sector as well. The Cloud is funded through four investors -- Noble Venture Finance, 3i, Accel, and Provider Venture Partners.

ST-Ericsson is a world leader in development of wireless platforms and semiconductors. More than half of all mobile phones in use today are enabled by ST-Ericsson’s products and technologies – bringing smarter communication, mobile entertainment, as well as benefits of access to mobile and broadband connectivity to people around the globe.ST- Ericsson is unique in its ability to deliver state-of-the- art platforms, integrating mobile multimedia and connectivity for GSM, EDGE, WCDMA, HSPA, TD-SCDMA and LTE. The company is a leading supplier to the top handset manufacturers, as well as to other exciting industry leaders, including mobile operators and device manufacturers.

FairPoint Communications delivers modern communications technology with respect, commitment, and a can-do spirit. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, FairPoint Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of a full range of communications services to residential and business customers including: local and long distance voice, data, Internet, television and broadband. They operates 32 local exchange companies in 18 states, with approximately 1.6 million access line equivalents. Our phone companies operate as the incumbent local exchange carrier in each of their respective markets. Many of our companies have been in operation for more than 75 years.Since they beginning in 1991, our focus has been — first and foremost — to serve the unique needs of our customers. At the same time, we've worked to deepen relationships, strengthen local economies and use technology to offer new ways to communicate.

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