ELI Receives Authority in Arizona.VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 1997--Electric Lightwave Inc. (ELI Eli (ē`lī), in the Bible, high priest and judge of Israel, teacher of the boy Samuel. 1. (language) ELI - An early system on the IBM 705 and IBM 650. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. 2. ), a full service communications provider based in Vancouver, announced today it received authority from the Arizona Corporation Commission to provide intrastate telecommunications services In telecommunication, the term telecommunications service has the following meanings: 1. Any service provided by a telecommunication provider. 2. in areas where U S West is the incumbent local exchange carrier ILEC, short for incumbent local exchange carrier, is a local telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of the break up of AT&T into the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) also known as the "Baby Bells". . ELI has been providing limited communications services in Arizona since 1995. "We can now kick into high gear as we prepare to enter this market in a big way," ELI's Arizona General Manager John Kennedy said. "In a very short time ELI will become a major force in the Phoenix market -- providing area businesses unsurpassed full service communications." Kennedy said ELI's fiber optic network will "cover much of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area" and provide built-in redundancy at no extra cost to its customers. "Most businesses are out of business if their communications link goes down," Kennedy said. "The technology we use ensures that if a customer's primary path is disrupted, it will automatically reroute to another." Last September, ELI entered into a long-term agreement with the Salt River Project to use SRP's fiber routes for network connectivity. ELI expects to complete construction of its central switching facility by July and will be offering "everything from local telephone service to ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. and ATM shortly thereafter," Kennedy said. ELI is a full service communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. which owns and operates telecommunications systems in several western states. ELI is a subsidiary of Citizens Utilities (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CZNA, CZNB), a diversified growth company offering full service telecommunications, gas, electric and water services to 1.8 million people in 20 states. Citizens also has significant investment in Centennial Cellular Corp., a cellular telephone company, and an investment in Hungarian Telephone and Cable Hungarian Telephone and Cable Corp. (HTCC) (AMEX:HTC) is a telecommunications company based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It provides a variety of telecommunications services in Hungary through its subsidiaries, Hungarotel Tavkozlesi Rt. and Pantel Tavkozlesi Kft. Corp. CONTACT: Electric Lightwave Inc. John Unverferth, 360/816-3217 |
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