USCarrier Telecom Extends Fiber Optic Network to Metro Birmingham

Southeastern Network Expands From Atlanta to Birmingham

ATLANTA, May 28 /PRNewswire/ — USCarrier Telecom today announced the completion of their network in Birmingham, Alabama. USCarrier is a Southeastern wholesale provider of high-speed, long-haul, fiber optic transport connecting more than 40 cities throughout tier one, two and three markets. This network expansion extends from Atlanta to Birmingham and from Birmingham to Montgomery, Alabama.

USCarrier will offer private line Time Division Multiplexing Service which is carried over its scalable long-haul Optical Transport Network. The company provides SONET protected leased dedicated point-to-point transport with bandwidths between DS1 to OC192. In addition, USCarrier offers wholesale Ethernet service from 50 Meg to 10G. This service provides high performance dedicated transport service for packet applications such as Internet service, Voice over IP, Video, Multimedia and data transport.

“The Birmingham metro area has been one of the fastest growing areas in Alabama for a decade and has been part of USCarrier’s long-term strategic plans. The continued demand for our network has driven the extension of our Southeastern route from Atlanta to Birmingham and Montgomery,” said Greg Frikor, Director of Sales for USCarrier. USCarrier is extremely pleased to be a leader in advancing the needs of our customers. Our investment in the network is part of our ongoing effort to expand coverage and capacity while always delivering quality, reliability and outstanding customer service.”

The surge in demand for high speed optical transport networks for Wireless, Ethernet and IP applications is pushing the use of optical transport networks and driving USCarrier’s growth.

USCarrier is currently engineering and developing several upgrades and expansions for completion in 2010.

About USCarrier Telecom, LLC

USCarrier Telecom, LLC is a one-source provider of high-capacity, high-speed telecommunications bandwidth. Wholesale services include long-haul optical transport, metro Atlanta access, long-distance, Ethernet and Internet access connecting more than 40 cities in Georgia, Alabama, Florida and the Southeast. Headquartered in Atlanta, USCarrier has an operations center in Macon, GA with technicians deployed throughout Georgia and Alabama. USCarrier has more than 3,400 route-miles of state-of-the-art fiber optic network in four states, monitored twenty-four hours, seven days a week. For more information on USCarrier and its products and services, visit the company Web site at www.uscarrier.com.

SOURCE USCarrier Telecom