Communications Test Design, Inc. company was founded in 1975 by chairman and CEO Jerry Parsons, his father Donald, and brother Dick. CTDI is owned and led by the Parsons family. Communications Test Design (CTDI) repairs, installs, tests, and manufactures telecommunications equipment. The company's main business is providing repair and maintenance services to wireless and wireline carriers, and cable companies, as well as equipment makers such as Alcatel Lucent and Cisco. It also offers warehousing and distribution services, product testing, and equipment installation -- from laying cable to installing customer premise equipment. Additionally, CTDI makes a line of broadband switching and access equipment and provides contract manufacturing services.

ZTE Corporation is one of China's largest telecommunications manufacturers. ZTE offers a variety of telecom hardware, including base stations, phones, and systems for switching, optical transport, videoconferencing, power supply, and monitoring. The company sells more than 10 million handsets a year, making it one of the biggest telecommunications equipment exporters in China. China Unicom used ZTE's products in a network construction project that spanned 18 provinces. ZTE was founded in 1985 as Zhongxing Semiconductor Co., Ltd. The company operates manufacturing facilities in 50 countries, with major production operations located in Brazil, Sweden, and the US.

Some might take offense at being known as a person who yaks away on the phone, but this company considers it a term of endearment. A reseller of international long-distance and other communications services, Yak Communications offers contract-free discount dial-around services (so-called "10-10"or casual calling) primarily to residential customers. Services include home telephone accounts, wireless voice access (yakMobile), and broadband Internet connections. It also sells prepaid calling cards and offers alternative interexchange carrier services, known as 1+billing, which allow customers to choose Yak for all long-distance calling. The company is a subsidiary of Globalive Communications.

Momentum Telecom knows that for businesses, or personal relationships, to build up enough steam to succeed, they need to stay connected. The competitive local-exchange carrier (CLEC) provides local and long-distance telephone service to about 150,000 residential (under the Family brand) and business (under the Edge banner) customers primarily in nine southeastern US states. Its data services include dial-up Internet access for residential subscribers and broadband Internet service for businesses; Momentum also offers digital voice service for corporate clients. Top customers have included regional communications provider NexHorizon Communications which resells Momentum digital voice service under its own brand.

Virgin Mobile USA provides voice and data wireless communications services to about 5 million subscribers across the US under on the Virgin banner and over Sprint Nextel's network. Targeting the youth market with value- oriented pricing, flexible calling plans, and stylish phones, the company offers mobile products and services intended to appeal to consumers under age 35. Virgin Mobile USA sells its phones with pre-paid and pay-as-you-go service plans through about 40,000 third-party retail stores, including Best Buy, Target, and Wal-Mart. Without a network to call its own, the company concentrates on sales and marketing. Virgin Mobile USA was acquired in late 2009 by Sprint Nextel for about $483 million.

WebTech Wireless develops, manufactures and delivers proven GPS vehicle tracking and telematic solutions to large and small scale commercial fleets and consumer vehicles around the world. Our suite of applications integrates GPS, wireless communications technologies and the Internet to provide real-time information about the location and status of vehicles and mobile resources.WebTech Wireless GPS fleet management solutions are used by over 1000 customers worldwide to efficiently monitor, track and manage their mobile resources and vehicles. Our solutions are based upon industry best practices, and offer unparalleled breadth of functionality to support the diverse needs of vehicle management, including automatic vehicle reporting, mapping, vehicle maintenance, driver status, in-vehicle telemetry, reporting, messaging, in-vehicle navigation, and Internet connectivity.

CapRock delivers uncompromising communications solutions to customers anywhere in the world. The company's end-to-end solutions provide customers with integrated fixed and mobile satellite communications and network services. With nearly three decades of experience and projects completed in over ninety countries, CapRock has become the trusted leader for reliable communications to remote and harsh environments. CapRock serves its customers through three primary markets: Energy, Government and Maritime.

Beceem Communications company is a designer, developer, and supplier of semiconductors used in 4G wireless and mobile broadband devices, including smartphones, modems, gateways, mobile routers, and laptops. Beceem Communications company, which partners with Clearwire, Sprint Nextel, and other companies for development of its products, sells to OEMs and telecom equipment makers like Motorola (about half of sales), Accton, Quanta, Uniquest Corp. (12% of sales), and ZTE. It gets most of its sales in Asia. Founded in 2003, Beceem filed for an IPO in 2010. The company agreed to be acquired by Broadcom for $316 million later that year.

Formed in 2003 from the merger of Arroyo Optics and Lightcross, Kotura's customers include Sun Microsystems and Santur. Kotura develops and makes silicon-based optoelectronic integrated circuit components and modules used in fiber-optic communications equipment. The company's Ultra VOA array is a variable optical attenuator used for power suppression, channel blocking, and signal modulation in metro and long-haul network transmission applications. Kotura also offers custom component design, fabrication, packaging, and testing services. Oclaro (formerly Bookham), a leading producer of optical components, licensed a portfolio of patents to Kotura.

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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