BROOKS FIBER GRANTED FULL LOCAL EXCHANGE SERVICE AUTHORITY IN ARKANSAS.ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 27, 1996-- COMPANY IS READY TO PROVIDE CHOICE TO LITTLE ROCK METROPOLITAN AREA Brooks Fiber Properties, Inc. announced today that Brooks Fiber Communications of Arkansas, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Brooks Fiber Properties, Inc., has been granted authority by the Arkansas Public Service Commission The Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) regulates the service and rates of those utilities subject to its jurisdiction in Arkansas. When it was originally created by the General Assembly in 1899, this was only the Railroads. to provide a full range of competitive local exchange telecommunications services in the state of Arkansas. This authority allows Brooks Fiber to expand its local offerings to include the full range of telecommunication services. The Company will utilize a Lucent Technologies 5ESS (1) (Electronic Switching System) A large-scale computer from Lucent used to route telephone calls in a telephone company office. The 5ESS is a Class 5 central office switch, and the 4ESS is a Class 4 tandem office switch. central office switch to offer state-of-the-art services in Little Rock. The ultra-modern 5ESS switch is in effect a "super-computer," which will switch calls cleaner, faster and at a lower incremental cost Incremental Cost The encompassing change that a company experiences within its balance sheet due to one additional unit of production. Notes: Incremental cost is the overall change that a company experiences by producing one additional unit of good. than older switching technologies. The Brooks Fiber Arkansas network employs 100 percent SONET (Synchronous Optical NETwork (networking) Synchronous Optical NETwork - (SONET) A broadband networking standard based on point-to-point optical fibre networks. SONET will provide a high-bandwidth "pipe" to support ATM-based services. ) fiber ring technology, which is widely acknowledged as being superior for reliability and capacity in contrast to the copper wire and copper/fiber hybrid systems offered by older phone monopolies. Brooks Fiber will offer businesses a full array of telecommunications services which can be used to supplement or bypass the services offered by the customer's current provider. The solutions that Brooks Fiber tailors for its customers include the following services: -- Local Phone Service -- (dial tone) -- High speed connections between businesses and their long distance carriers -- Wide area connections between a company's computer networks in different locations -- Centrex business phone systems - for customers who don't want to purchase and maintain PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). and key system equipment or who just want to enhance their current service. -- Videoconferencing A real time video session between two or more users or between two or more locations. Although the first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites, inhouse room systems became popular in the early 1980s after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems , distance learning and telemedicine applications -- High speed data transmission and high speed lines to the internet Brooks Fiber Properties, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is a leading full service provider of competitive local telecommunications services in medium sized cities across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The Company currently has 30 networks operational or under construction in 16 states. CONTACT: Brooks Fiber Properties Inc., St. Louis Waymon Tipton, 800/799-8914 ext. 313 |
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