At TDS, we provide innovative Voice, Internet, and Entertainment services to rural and suburban communities nationwide, as well as leading-edge business technology. But it’s our commitment to each community we serve that truly sets us apart.

Connecting People Worldwide, With Savings, Reliability and Convenience.Startec provides innovative, affordable, convenient and easy-to-use telephone, Internet and communications services. Since 1989, Startec has been the leading provider of telephone services to ethnic businesses and consumers in the United States. The company also works with international long-distance carriers and Internet service providers transacting with the world's emerging economies. We offer high levels of satisfaction to every customer by understanding their needs and cultures, providing exceptional value and delivering reliable communication services. Building on that tradition, Startec is dedicated to being the leading provider of communication services to communities around the globe. Startec services connect worldwide communities spanning the Pacific Rim, Middle East, North Africa, Russia, Central Europe, and North and South America. We provide our services through a flexible network of owned and leased facilities, operating and termination agreements, and resale arrangements. Startec technology assets include an extensive network of IP gateways, international gateways, domestic switches and ownership in undersea fiber optic cables. Startec's combined technological expertise and customer service focus make it the company ethnic customers worldwide can trust with their important calls.

Nortel Inversora S.A., through its subsidiary, Telecom Argentina S.A., provides telecommunication services in Argentina and Paraguay. It offers voice, data, and Internet services that include local area, national long-distance, and international communications; supplementary services comprising call waiting, itemized invoicing, and voicemail; interconnection with other operators; data transmission consisting of private networks, point-to-point traffic, radio, and TV signal transmission; outsourcing of IT solutions; and Internet services. The company also provides wireless services, including high-speed wireless, videoconferencing, full track download, multimedia messaging, online streaming, corporate mailing, and BlackBerry solutions over various networks; and involves in the sale of wireless communication devices, such as cellular phones, 3G modems, 3G hotspots, wireless Internet, and netbooks. Nortel Inversora S.A. was founded in 1990 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Frequency Electronics, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is now a well-established public company in Long Island, New York, and trades on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange under the symbol FEIM. It has five wholly-owned subsidiaries: FEI Communications Inc. and FEI Government Systems Inc., located in Mitchel Field, New York; Gillam-FEi a.s., located in Liege, Belgium, near Brussels; FEI-Zyfer Inc., located in Garden Grove, California; FEI-Asia Ltd., located in the free trade zone in Tianjin, China. FEI and its subsidiaries are major worldwide suppliers of Precision Time and Frequency (PT&F) products for ground, seaborne, airborne, and space terminals and platforms used by commercial and government/military systems suppliers.In the mid-1990s, Frequency Electronics Company transformed itself from a defense contract manufacturer into a high-tech provider of precision time and frequency products used to synchronize voice, data and video transmissions in wireless communications systems. These systems are found in both ground-based stations and on-board commercial satellites. Frequency Electronics Company also continues to support the United States government with products for defense or space applications but it will do so with more emphasis on COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) products than on contract-based projects.

Consolidated Communications (NASDAQ:CNSL) is a family of companies providing advanced communications services to both residential and business customers in Illinois, Texas and Pennsylvania. Consolidated Communications offers a wide range of services over its technologically advanced IP-based network, including local and long distance telephone, Digital Phone, High-Speed Internet access and Digital TV.They have a continuing commitment to offer innovative products; reliable, high-quality services and exceptional customer care. We also are dedicated to maintaining strong local ties in the same communities where our employees live and work.Serving markets in three states, Consolidated Communications is the 13th largest independent local telephone company in the nation. Our related businesses complement our core telephone business and include directory publishing and advertising services, business systems, retail and wholesale operator services, call completion services and fully integrated telemarketing and fulfillment services.

Elektrobit (EB) designs and tests electronic products, especially wireless technology and automotive electronics. Operating in more than 10 countries, Elektrobit primarily serves the automotive and telecommunications industries.Elektrobit company provides development services for wireless products, including mobile phones and navigation systems. It sells radio channel emulators for testing wireless products. EB also offers software for designing and implementing infotainment systems for the automotive market. Elektrobit company gets more than half of its sales in Europe.

Ambient wants to put real power behind communications. Ambient company develops technology that allows power lines to serve as high-speed data communications networks. Ambient's products -- including nodes, couplers, and network management software -- utilize Broadband over Power Line (BPL) and other technologies to create advanced power grids (also known as smart grids) with two-way communication capabilities. Its systems are designed to be used by utility companies for such applications as demand management, direct load control, meter reading, and real-time pricing. Ambient has partnerships with utilities such as Con Ed and Duke Energy to develop its technology.

Tropos Networks wants to spread wireless LANs across the land. The company has developed routing devices that extend the coverage of networks utilizing 802.11 wireless networking technology (also known as Wi-Fi). Its products include indoor and outdoor networking equipment, as well as management software. The company markets to network operators, service providers, and government agencies. Tropos has worked with EarthLink, IBM, and Motorola to install city-wide networks in Philadelphia; Anaheim and San Mateo, California; and Corpus Christi, Texas. Tropos Networks was founded in 2000.

XO Holdings gets down to the Xs and Os of business telecom services. The holding company for XO Communications provides telecommunications services to large corporations, small and midsized businesses, government agencies, and other telecom carriers over a network of about 1 million miles of metropolitan fiber. XO Communications offers local and long- distance voice, dedicated Internet access, private networking, data transport, and managed services such as Web hosting and bundled voice and data services. The company has more than 90,000 customers, including wholesale network access provider Covad Communications and network and IT services provider SAVVIS. Billionaire financier Carl Icahn controls 89% of XO.

BT Wholesale provides network services to about 700 communications service providers in the UK. A business segment of top UK telecommunications company BT Group, it serves other telecom and data services companies, including application service providers, ISPs, fixed line network operators, and wireless service providers. BT Wholesale provides outsourced network services management, broadband Internet connections, Ethernet service, and copper and fiber optic network access. The company also offers hosted software packages for customers who provide software as a subscription service, and it offers network colocation to enable clients to expand their server space without adding infrastructure.

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