CopperCom Adds Tim Colby to Senior Management Team; New Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing to Drive Expansion of CopperCom Products and Services into the IOC and CLEC Markets.

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- CopperCom today announced the appointment of Tim Colby as senior vice president of sales and marketing. Colby brings 20 years of extensive business leadership and experience to CopperCom.

In his new position, Colby will continue the company's momentum in driving product sales and services through direct and indirect channels. Colby will be integrating sales and marketing initiatives, and building on CopperCom's success in the Independent Operating Company (IOC) and Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) markets.

CopperCom provides switches that enable Class 5 and Class 4 service providers to seamlessly migrate their networks to next-generation IP communications. Its flagship product, the Converged Switching eXchange (CSX(R)), is a field-proven Rural Utilities Services (RUS)-listed switch. The CSX Switching System is capable of delivering applications ranging from greenfield deployments to cap-and-replace of legacy systems, to advanced service delivery over packet networks.

CopperCom's growing customer base in the service provider market includes a number of recent significant wins including: Chillicothe Telephone (over 37,000 lines); Great Plains Communication (host-remote complex of over 30,000 lines); and, BevComm (over 14,000 lines).

"We are thrilled to add Tim to the CopperCom team. Tim's history of success and his customer- and solutions-focused approach will serve CopperCom and our customers very well," said Mike Myers, president and chief executive officer at CopperCom.

Colby has been successful both as an entrepreneur and a senior executive at Fortune 500 corporations. He was previously CEO of MCurve, Inc., a data network solutions and systems integration company. At MCurve, Colby worked closely with partners such as Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks, Juniper Networks and NetScreen Technologies. He also held senior executive positions at Zenith Data Systems, Compaq Computer Corporation (now Hewlett Packard) and PC Magazine, the flagship publication of Ziff Davis Publishing.

Colby has been focused in the areas of information security, IP telephony, routing/switching and high availability solutions throughout his career. Tim's breadth of experience includes leadership positions in sales, marketing and strategic planning as well as chief executive officer.

"I am very pleased to be joining the CopperCom team at such an exciting time," said Tim Colby. "The company is coming off a record year in 2004, has proven its leadership with a world-class product, and has built the industry's strongest, most focused team. I'm looking forward to applying my years of experience and industry knowledge aggressively moving CopperCom into new markets that can benefit from the company's expertise and commitment to customer service."

Colby graduated from DePaul University in Chicago with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing.

About CopperCom

CopperCom, Inc., a U.S. based company with "the strength to build the future and the know-how to do it right," offers an innovative suite of telecommunications solutions for the local exchange. CopperCom enables incumbent and competitive carriers to offer a revolutionary way of delivering local telephone service to subscribers over circuit or packet-based broadband connections. In the telecom switching business since 1982, CopperCom is a subsidiary of the Heico Companies and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla. For additional information, CopperCom can be reached directly at 561.322.4000, or via the Internet at http://www.coppercom.com.

CopperCom is a trademark, and CSX a registered trademark of CopperCom, Inc.

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