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Broadslate turns to NuVox for help

Submitted by: John Warner on Feb 05, 2002 at 6:00 am Tagged with: General Archives Source:

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Broadslate turns to NuVox for help
By Ed O'Donoghue
Business Writer

NuVox Communications, with regional offices in Greenville, is making itself
available to pick up high-speed Internet service for more than 250 customers of
a Virginia company that plans to cease operations in March.

Earle MacKenzie, president of Broadslate Communications of Charlottesville,
Va., said his company reached agreement with NuVox to offer service to its
customers. The Federal Communications Commission requires companies to find a
suitable and willing replacement before they are allowed to close. However, the
choice does not obligate customers.

MacKenzie said the company, founded in July 1999, has about 2,500 business
customers, about 250 of which are located in South Carolina. He said Broadslate
has given NuVox names of a small number of customers outside South Carolina.

In January, NuVox instituted a "fast track" program to try to add customers
whose telecommunications companies are ceasing operations.

NuVox was created 15 months ago by the merger of Greenville-based TriVergent
Communications and Gabriel Communications of St. Louis. It provides telephone,
high-speed Internet and other telecommunications services in 30 markets in 13
states in the Southeast and Midwest.