Con-Space Communications designs and manufactures radio communications equipment for people working in confined spaces and for public safety personnel. The company's products include miniature two-way radios with throat microphone attachments for use inside face masks and other protective clothing. Con-Space serves clients including municipal fire and law enforcement departments and the military. The company operates from offices in the UK and the US. Turret Oy AB, the company's majority shareholder, bought out Con-Space's remaining shares in 2009, taking the company private. Con-Space operates as part of the SAVOX Communications Group, which includes affiliated companies in Finland and the UK.

Boost Mobile is hoping to get a rise out of the young and the restless mobile phone market. A subsidiary of Sprint Nextel, the unit sells the parent company's mobile services on a prepaid basis across the US, marketing simplified payment plans primarily to the youth market. Boost Mobile, which has more than 3 million subscribers, also offers prepaid calling cards sold under the Re-Boost brand. Because Boost Mobile tailors the marketing message for its products and services to a younger demographic, the company's mobile data services and entertainment offerings are a central part of its product package. These services include text messaging, wireless Internet access, and games.

Direct Edge is a Jersey City, NJ based stock exchange operating two separate platforms, EDGA Exchange and EDGX Exchange. Direct Edge trades all listed U.S. equities. With a market share in the 10%-12% range, Direct Edge regularly trades 1 billion to 2 billion shares per day, fluctuating with the overall market volume. On any given trading day, Direct Edge is ranked as the third or fourth largest stock market in the United States.

Iteris is a leader in the traffic management market delivering total solutions for public and private sector clients in key markets worldwide. We develop and apply advanced technologies to reduce traffic congestion and improve the safety of our surface transportation system. We combine our expertise in hardware and software engineering, image processing, and traffic management to develop sophisticated systems that reduce travel time, reduce congestion, enhance transit operations, provide safer mobility, and improve the overall quality of life. We have assembled a bright and talented team from many professional disciplines to focus on the specific needs of our clients. Iteris is committed to the traffic management market - striving to apply our talents to solving the challenging problems of the movement of people and goods. By applying advanced engineering, best industry practices, experience and imagination, Iteris develops end-to-end solutions that solve traffic problems today and allow for future growth and flexibility.

Leap Wireless International wants to hurdle the competition. Through its Cricket Communications subsidiary, as well as affiliates LCW Wireless and Denali Operations, the company provides wireless telephone service to nearly 4 million customers in 30 US states. Leap Wireless targets the youth and minority markets with the flexible payment plans that are a key component of its marketing message. Its service features unlimited flat-rate local calling, a prepaid roaming option, multimedia, and wireless data, as well as mobile Web access through its Cricket Broadband service. The company makes sales both through its chain of retail locations and via partnerships with distributors and resellers.

Hector Communications may not operate in Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, but it does serve up local phone service in about two dozen rural communities in Minnesota and nearby states (powdermilk biscuits are optional). The holding company operates through nine facilities-based rural local- exchange carriers (RLECs) located in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. These operating subsidiaries maintain about 30,000 local access lines and offer Internet access. Hector and Alliance also provide cable TV service. Hector is owned by a consortium made up of three Minnesota local- exchange carriers: Arvig Enterprises, Blue Earth Valley Communications, and New Ulm Telecom.

Spring Communications jumped headfirst into the mobile communications business in 2001 as a retailer of mobile phones and service. The company provides wireless communications products and services to more than 1 million customers in Utah and Colorado. Now an authorized AT&T retailer, Spring Communications sells a variety of phones, accessories and services including voice, SMS, and high- speed wireless data services through its chain of about 75 retail stores. The company was founded in 2001.

Phyworks was acquired by Maxim in 2010. Phyworks' chips said "Fie!" to slow telecommunication links. The company offered serializer/deserializer devices and other microchips used in fiber-optic modules for high-speed LAN, SAN, and WAN equipment. The fabless semiconductor company was founded in 2001 by industry veterans; it outsourced production to silicon foundries (contract semiconductor manufacturers), including Taiwan Semiconductor and Jazz Semiconductor. Phyworks touted its chips as being less expensive and less power-hungry than typical devices of the same type.

RF Monolithics, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets wireless solutions and wireless components for various applications in the industrial, medical, automotive, consumer, and telecommunications markets in the United States and internationally. Its wireless solutions product line comprises RF module products, including proprietary, custom, and standard-based radio modules; and gateway and network bridge products to connect different network types. The company’s wireless solutions product line also consists of Virtual Wire and RFIC short-range radio products, including proprietary hybrid transmitter, receiver, and transceiver modules; and various RFICs to complement the Virtual Wire product family comprising transmitters, receivers, and transceivers. RF Monolithics’ wireless components product line consists of filters for satellite radio, global positioning systems, and telecommunications base stations and repeaters, as well as includes RF filters and duplexers. Its wireless components product line also comprises frequency control products for analog and digital applications; crystal based products, such as multiple series of surface mound devices, including resonators, oscillators, filters, temperature compensated oscillators, and voltage controlled temperature compensated oscillators; low-power components, such as resonators used in low-power wireless transmitter and receiver applications. RF Monolithics, Inc. markets its products through manufacturers’ representatives and distributors in the United States; and markets its products internationally through manufacturers’ representatives acting as distributors, as well as through direct sales. RF Monolithics, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Founded in 2001 by Redleaf Ventures, American Electric Power (AEP), one of the largest electrical utility's in the US, and Cisco Systems, the largest networking company in the world, Amperion has deep roots in energy and communications. Amperion's DNA has been influenced by a strong combination of networking communications and electric utility background. Amperion's employees have over 250 man years of utility and communications experience of delivering smart grid solutions for T&D - transmission and distribution circuits.Amperion is the owner of the foundational patents of Broadband over Powerline (BPL) and has a history of innovations in powerline communications. Amperion's patents include methods of powering from the grid, RF signal coupling, RF signal filtering, frequency agility, hybrid networks of BPL and wireless, switching algorithms between wireless and BPL, and transmissions over high voltage lines.

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