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CommPartners CEO Dave Clark Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2005 IP Communications Voice Services 'CEO of the Year' Award

Posted on: Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 09:00 CST

CommPartners, an IP-based network operator and telephony services and solutions provider, today announced CEO Dave Clark will receive Frost & Sullivan's 2005 IP Communications Voice Services CEO of the Year award.

"Having spent earlier time in his career at a CLEC Dave Clark has gleaned valuable insight into what is required of service providers to succeed in the market. He has leveraged this insight to help CommPartners achieve many significant milestones," said Lynda Starr, senior analyst, IP Communications at Frost & Sullivan.

"Receiving this distinction from a leading industry expert like Frost & Sullivan is truly an honor," said Dave Clark, president and CEO of CommPartners. "In founding CommPartners, I sought to bring together the best talent and technology to create an enterprise class IP-based network that would truly deliver on the promise of VoIP. This award is a testament to the like-minded vision and shared passion of everyone at CommPartners who have helped to make that promise a reality."

This Frost & Sullivan Award is bestowed each year upon the CEO/Executive who has demonstrated leadership excellence within the IP communications voice services market. For this distinction, Frost & Sullivan sought to identify a highly successful CEO whose leadership, vision and successful risk-taking stand out among his/her peers in one or more Industry Research Groups (IRG). The Award recipient also has distinguished himself/herself from competitors by pursuing a unique restructuring, organizational management reengineering, or competitive roadmap that has resulted in propelling or sustaining the company's market position.

Dave Clark's accomplishments for 2005, the first full year of CommParnters' operations, include:

-- Raising $28 million, which enabled the company to accelerate the buildout of its leased network and further develop its operations support system.

-- The completion of a nationwide network connecting four SuperPOPs located in Las Vegas, Chicago, Atlanta and New York, at which routers, softswitch equipment, and border control devices are placed. Customers are connected to the SuperPoPs via T-1s. In turn, the SuperPOPs are interconnected with high-capacity fiber links, creating a redundant VoIP Backbone.

-- The acquisition of TxLink, a telecom wholesale reseller, in order for CommPartners to target smaller carriers with IP-based business services thereby leveraging the national backbone.

-- Signing on 67 customers with 75 brands on a private-label basis since it began generating revenues in February 2005.

-- The acquisition of TPC Networks, a minutes and bandwidth broker, in order to gain customers, routing and billing software systems.

Currently, CommPartners offers the broadest IP-based network coverage to deliver residential, SMB and enterprise hosted VoIP services with over 5,000 rate centers in the domestic U.S., including Hawaii and Alaska. CommPartners has applied for and expects to obtain Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) status in all 50 states by next year, which will classify it as one of the sole largest networks of its type in the U.S. The company has architected its network for business-quality VoIP services, 911 emergency services capabilities and CALEA compliance--emerging issues that pose challenges to many VoIP service providers.

The CommPartners solution includes CommPartners Management System (CMS) proprietary OSS platform for automated provisioning, billing, user interface and back office support capabilities. Hosted features include simultaneous ring, voicemail-to-e-mail, feature activation via the web, and four digit dialing between offices. CommPartners provides VoIP facilitation services such as Subscriber Endpoint Control, Connectivity to the Public Switched Telephone Network ("PSTN"), Long Distance services, and Subscriber Management. Service providers can take advantage of all or any of these VoIP facilitation services, depending upon their existing network investments and VoIP requirements.

About CommPartners

CommPartners, Inc. was formed to "Enable the VoIP Promise" by offering hosted Voice over Internet Protocol services, including IP Centrex, hosted PBX and conferencing functionality and IP to PSTN connectivity to broadband and service providers. CommPartners' hosted VoIP services are designed for Internet Service Providers (wireline and wireless), IT Integrators, Multiple Service Organizations, Private Cable Operators, Independent Operating Companies, Fiber-To-The-Home and Overbuilding Entities. Founded and operated by industry veterans, CommPartners has a belief in optimizing packet-based protocols in a distributed architecture to facilitate VoIP connectivity and service offerings for broadband and service providers. For more information, call 702-367-VOIP (8647) or visit CommPartners' website at www.commpartners.us.

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics. For more information, visit www.frost.com.

Source: Business Wire

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