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1 2 THE INCOMPAS SHOW I OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2022 www.bekabusinessmedia.com DAY 1 Y 2 Arelion, formerly Telia Carrier, a leading provider of the global internet backbone, AS1299, and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced it will offer connectivity to the Oracle Cloud Querétaro region in Mexico via OCI FastConnect. Oracle customers can harness the power of Oracle Cloud locally, including Oracle Autonomous Database, to unlock innovation and drive business growth. This collaboration builds on a longstanding relationship between Arelion and Oracle, with Arelion providing high bandwidth connectivity services to OCI on an international basis. With OCI, customers benefit from best-in class security, consistent highperformance, simple predictable pricing, and the tools and expertise needed to bring enterprise workloads to the cloud quickly and efficiently. Other key insights about the relationship supporting the Oracle Cloud Querétaro region include: • Arelion will provide connectivity to OCI through Arelion Cloud Connect, providing customers with self-provisioned, flexible and scalable private network connectivity to OCI FastConnect locations. This will provide customers with a 1, 2, 5, or 10Gb/s link to an OCI FastConnect location over Arelion’s backbone. • The Oracle Cloud Querétaro region will provide customers throughout Mexico and Central America with access to a range of applications and infrastructure services with easy, elastic and direct, private connection with higher bandwidth, lower latency and smoother performance. • Located near Mexico City, Querétaro is a central interconnection hub for cloud and data center providers by connecting Mexican and international companies. p Visit Arelion at Deal Table No. 7, or discover more at arelion.com. Communications Data Group (CDG) announced that Conterra Networks, a regional fiber driven service provider headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., has selected CDG’s online subscriber billing and customer care system, MBS, as their BSS/OSS solution. In making this announcement, Chris Harris, CTO for Conterra Networks, commented, “We are very excited to partner with CDG and believe in their B/OSS platform vision. CDG is making impactful investments into their company that will enable their customers to succeed in a next-generation, data driven environment. CDG is in a unique situation where their parent company, PRTC, is a fiber service provider. With the executive leadership team leading both CDG and PRTC companies, I believe this synergy will provide CDG tremendous awareness into how systems, technology, and processes help our front-line employees and drive insights into the overall business.” CDG’s CTO, Tony Stout, added, “We are extremely excited to add Conterra Networks to our growing list of client partners. Conterra is on the leading edge of technology innovation in delivering mission critical services to school districts and enterprise customers within their multi-state fiber network. CDG is proud to partner with Conterra as they continue their drive to improve their operational efficiency and build real time business intelligence into their back-office platforms.” CDG provides scalable, accurate (B/OSS) billing and operational support solutions for voice, video, and data for retail and wholesale telecommunications carriers and service providers since 1970. Founded in 2001, and now operating 13,250 fiber miles, Conterra Networks is one of the largest remaining independent broadband infrastructure companies in the United States based on its optical fiber and fixed wireless network assets and annual recurring revenues. The company is owned by affiliates of APG and Fiera, along with significant participation by the company’s senior management team. For more information about Conterra Networks, please visit www.conterra.com. p For more information, visit CDG at Kiosk 3 or Conterra Networks at Plaza Court 2 on the Exhibit Floor. Arelion Supports Oracle Cloud in Mexico Conterra Networks Selects CDG’s BSS/OSS Solutions Arcadian Infracom, Navajo Nation Share Fiber Payment Arcadian Infracom and the Navajo Nation celebrated a revenue share payment under the Navajo/Arcadian Fiber Partnership being delivered to Tribal Council leaders. The ceremony in front of Tribal Council chambers in Window Rock, Ariz., was the result of four years of hard work across a team of Navajo leaders, Arcadian and its financial partners. Arcadian and the Navajo Nation, in partnership, built the trust necessary to execute on the momentous middle mile/long-haul fiber construction project through the Navajo Nation, improving broadband access, economic opportunity and quality of life for the Navajo people. p Pictured are: From left to right: Arcadian Co-Founder Derek Garnier, Carlyle Begay, Delegate Edison J. Wauneka, Delegate Edmund Yazzie, Mike Halona; Director for the Navajo Nation’s Land Department Delegate Thomas Walker Jr., RDC Chairman Rickie Nez, Arcadian CEO and Co-Founder Dan Davis, Andrew Deihl and Speaker Seth Damon

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