ADVISORY/EPIK Extends Network Footprint Additional 1,600 Miles in Deal With El Paso Global Networks.

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EPIK EPIK Eesti Puuetega Inimeste Koda (The Estonian Chamber of Disabled People) Communications Incorporated (EPIK), the telecommunications subsidiary of Florida East Coast Industries Inc. (NYSE NYSE

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FLA Front Line Assembly , FLA.b) (FECI), today announced an expansion of its national fiber network by executing a dark fiber transaction with El Paso El Paso (ĕl pă`sō), city (1990 pop. 515,342), seat of El Paso co., extreme W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Juárez, Mex.; inc. 1873. Global Networks. This dark fiber swap adds over 1,600 route miles The number of miles that are spanned by a telecommunications network. It does not include combined wire mileage due to multiple wires or fibers within a single cable or by overlapping segments, just the total geographic distance between cities or other terminal points. to EPIK's national footprint and provides metropolitan fiber in four key western cities: Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Phoenix.

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