Company Profile for McLeodUSA.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) Founded in 1992, McLeodUSA McLeodUSA, based in Hiawatha, Iowa, is one of the nation’s largest independent CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers). The company also has offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and The Woodlands, Texas. is one of the nation's largest independent competitive telecommunications services In telecommunication, the term telecommunications service has the following meanings: 1. Any service provided by a telecommunication provider. 2. providers, offering integrated local, long distance, Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and advanced communications services to homes and businesses in 25 Midwest Midwest or Middle West, region of the United States centered on the western Great Lakes and the upper-middle Mississippi valley. It is a somewhat imprecise term that has been applied to the northern section of the land between the Appalachians , Southwest, Northwest and Rocky Mountain states Rocky Mountain States A region of the western United States including Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. . The Company is a facilities-based telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. provider with approximately 1 million residential and business access lines in service, and annual telecommunications revenues of approximately $1 billion. As of April 16, 2002, Forstmann Little & Co. became a 58% shareholder in the Company. -0-
Company: McLeodUSA
Headquarters Address: 6400 C Street SW
PO Box 3177
Cedar Rapids, IA 52406-3177
Main Telephone: 319-364-0000
Website: www.mcleodusa.com
Ticker: MCLD(NASDAQ)
Type of Organization: Public
Industry: Technology: Telecommunications
Key Executives: Chairman & CEO: Chris A. Davis
President: Stephen C. Gray
CFO: G. Kenneth Burckhardt
Investor Relations
Contact: Bryce E. Nemitz
Phone: 319-790-7800
Email: mcleodusa_ir@mcleodusa.com
Public Relations
Contact: Bruce A. Tiemann
Phone: 319-790-7800
Email: mcleodusa_ir@mcleodusa.com
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