1 2 THE INCOMPAS SHOW I OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2022 www.bekabusinessmedia.com DAY 1 Y FiberLight Closes Out Historical Quarter INDATEL Services has experienced a year of exponential growth in 2022 with ambitious goals set for 2023. The company was founded in 2003 to represent network providers on a nationwide scale. Connection to INDATEL is a connection to more than 700 rural independent telecommunications providers. The organization continues to grow nationally and remains committed to providing best-in-class, costeffective transport connectivity via fiberoptic routes in rural and metropolitan areas. INDATEL delivers reliable bandwidth solutions in rural and underserved markets. Over the years, as INDATEL membership has grown, so has the network that now reaches from the East Coast to the West Coast and many places in between. The INDATEL wholesale account team has nurtured many wholesale channel relationships, which in turn presents unprecedented sales opportunities for its membership that may otherwise not have been attainable at a smaller scale. In 2022, INDATEL is breaking several records previously deemed tough to overcome, and it plans to continue down that path into 2023. These include: • An all-time high in new members approved by its board of managers: East Kentucky Network, Bluegrass Network, New Mexico Fiber Network and Hoosier Net. • A record 35 active member companies involved in the organization. • It’s largest team of internal employees since INDATEL’s formation supporting and delivering exceptional business to customer and members. • Representing a network covering more than 400,000 miles of fiber and 1 million-plus serviceable buildings. In case those broken records are not enough, INDATEL has achieved 198 percent revenue growth compared to 2021. According to CEO Seth Arndorfer, Dakota Carrier Network (DCN) continues to be a member of INDATEL for many reasons. “It really comes down to scale,” he explained. “We’re creating scale by tying our networks together, giving large carriers such as wireless, federal contracts and governmental contracts a single point of contact to meet so many addresses with a single bill.” When asked about the record year for INDATEL Services and plans for 2023, INDATEL CEO Mel Wagner Jr. said, “INDATEL is just scratching the surface of potential to provide service to our customers, monetize and grow our member networks, and most importantly connecting the world to rural America one circuit at a time. Bottom-line, INDATEL employees are the differentiator when it comes to the customer experience in our rural-based industry segment. Stay tuned for more INDATEL in your future.” INDATEL is implementing industryleading automation platforms to enable all departments to be more efficient in their day-to-day duties. In turn, enabling automation efforts allows the INDATEL team to create a touchless ordering experience for all customers, customized down to the customer’s preferred pricing platform. INDATEL Data Systems Specialist Lance Popp said, “We never want to get to the point that we are so automated that we lose our personalized customer service, but what we can do is arm each department with tools and information to further enhance our customer experience and allow our employees to make more informed and intelligent decisions along the life of an order. For our customers, we can make ordering from us easier by implementing APIs into the systems they are already utilizing to submit and track orders.” p To learn more, visit Governor’s Meeting Room 15 or booth 106. Stay up to date on all things INDATEL at www.indatel.com FiberLight LLC, a fiber infrastructure provider with more than 20 years of experience building and operating mission-critical, high-bandwidth networks, recently closed out the most significant quarter of its history – including the announcement that it signed an agreement to be acquired by Morrison & Co., the renewal of a 20-year contract with the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District and a renewed commitment to accelerate network infrastructure expansion in fast-growing U.S. markets. Recent highlights from the organization include: • FiberLight signing a definitive agreement to be acquired by H.R.L. Morrison & Co., a premier global infrastructure investment firm focused on the digital and renewables sectors. Morrison & Co.’s investment in FiberLight marks its first investment in the North American digital infrastructure market and will accelerate FiberLight’s network expansion, positioning it to take advantage of the rapidly growing fiber infrastructure market. • FiberLight renewing a 20-year contract with the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District to continue its partnership and enable next generation learning. FiberLight began working with HEB ISD nearly 25 years ago when the school district needed a fiber provider to service K-12 students across a 40-acre region in northern Texas. When the original agreement expired, HEB ISD signed a new deal with FiberLight citing its consistent up-time, scalability and superior service in meeting the demands of a forward-looking school community. • FiberLight expanding and enhancing its critical network infrastructure across Texas, Central Florida, Virginia, Maryland and the greater Atlanta area. Spanning approximately 17,000 route miles of fiber infrastructure, and servicing customers in more than 30 metropolitan areas, FiberLight continues to invest in building out state-of-the-art, high capacity networks that provide unprecedented scalability and reliability for its customers and their end-users. “We are proud of FiberLight’s significant achievements over the past few months and are bullish about our future as fiber broadband continues to expand into new markets,” said FiberLight CEO Chris Rabii. “With the recent investment in FiberLight by Morrison and Co., renewed partnerships with longstanding alliances like HED-ISD, and our unmatched network assets, we are looking forward to leading the industry in meeting the business needs of cloud service providers, network operators, government agencies and large-scale enterprises with unmatched technology and service.” p For more information, visit FiberLight in booth 101 or Deal Center Table 1. INDATEL’s Successes Result in Optimism
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