-- HTC continues its commitment to providing the most reliable communications services possible at the best possible value providing a complete, integrated bundle of voice, video and cable to its customers in South Carolina. HTC delivers service over approximately 85,000 access lines to its customers in Horry and Georgetown counties; -- GVTC has evolved into a comprehensive communications provider with offerings that go well beyond residential and business telephone service. As the largest telephone cooperative in Texas, its service area spans 2,000 square miles and eleven counties, and includes over 32,000 members with approximately 42,000 access lines."MetaSwitch understands what it takes for carriers to be successful in today's markets and since inception we've helped over 250 services providers deliver higher-value services to their customers," said Mike Ward, senior vice president of sales at MetaSwitch. "MetaSwitch will continue to bring best-in-class solutions to market that can be fully leveraged by carriers deploying millions or thousands of lines, ensuring that each carrier has the tools it needs to successfully compete for business in an increasingly savvy marketplace." About MetaSwitch MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of switching and applications solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its widely deployed call agent, media/signaling gateway and application server platform supports a full range of Class 4/5 capabilities and hosted unified communications services. Based on open standards including IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), MetaSwitch solutions scale from a few hundred to millions of subscribers in both integrated and distributed configurations. Customers include incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers, as well as operators of broadband wireless, cable and fiber networks. MetaSwitch is a division of Data Connection, a consistently profitable and privately held telecom technology provider. For more information, please visit www.metaswitch.com. About HTC HTC, Inc. is the nation's largest telephone cooperative and the 25th largest telephone company. Founded in 1952, HTC celebrates over 55 years of service to the community as a local communications leader. HTC offers local telephone service, long distance, Digital Wireless, Digital Cable, High-Speed Internet Access, and advanced Business Services such as Remote Recovery Services, Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) design, firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) security. HTC Communications, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of HTC, Inc., offers local telephone service in the city of Conway, Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Little River, Pawleys Island and the city of Georgetown. A full menu of communications services are available from HTC Communications including, local telephone service, long distance, Digital Wireless, Digital Cable and High-Speed Internet access. HTC also provides Fiber to the Home technology called HTC Bluewave, a state-of-the-art fiber optic network that delivers unparalleled bandwidth for extremely high-speed Internet access and data transmittal, 100% digital cable TV video, and traditional voice service through a single delivery point to a customer's home. About GVTC GVTC was formed as a telephone cooperative in 1951 to provide phone service to rural residents of Central and South Texas. Today, it provides a wide range of services to more than 32,000 members in 11 counties across an area that covers approximately 2,000 square miles. GVTC offers high-speed broadband Internet technology, digital cable TV, digital phone service and home security monitoring. It was the first telecommunications entity to provide Fiber-to-the-Home technology in South Texas. More information may be found on GVTC's newly redesigned website: www.gvtc.com. Data Connection and MetaSwitch are trademarks of Data Connection Limited and Data Connection Corporation. Brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Copyright © 2007 Data Connection Limited
Contact Information: Contact: Carol Daniels MetaSwitch +1 (510) 589-5074 chd@metaswitch.com Steve Polilli Connect2 Communications +1 (919) 554 3532 x3 steve@connect2comm.com