SPRINGFIELD'S LOCAL PHONE SERVICE PROVIDERS

RESEARCHED BY: ABBY BEGGERLY

Name No. of Local

Address Full-time Major Services Offered Facilities-based Sales Manager Market Volume High-Speed Year

Telephone / Fax Emp. or Resale or CEO Area Discounts Lines Estab

1 Southwestern Bell Local; intrastate long distance;

600 St Louis 65806 311 video conferencing; wide area Facilities-based Steve Vaught Springfield; Yes Digital 1880

800-499-7928 / 836-2549 network; LAN; optional plans select areas

2 MaxTel

105 N Wickham 105 All Southwestern Resale Mark Maxey; N/A Varies No 1997

Alvord, Texas 76225 Bell services Craig Bolin

800-583-2289 / 940-427-3942

3 ProTel Systems

3351 E Sunshine 65804 47 Southwestern Bell Resale Steve MO; KS; No 56K; T-1; 1983

875-6000 / 875-6001 authorized agent Thompson AR; OK ISDN; 64K

4 Dial US Resale in 1998;

333 Park Central East 65806 40 Local; 1+ service; 800 Facilities-based Steven Smith; 14-state Yes N/A 1983

881-3425 / 888-2448 services; travel card; Internet in 1999 Clark McLeod area

5 World Com

901 St Louis, Ste 704 65806 39 Local; long distance; paging; Both Doug Deetz National Varies ISDN; T-1; 1983

831-1313 / 831-9588 Internet; voice mail; centrex OC3

6 Eclipse

1736 E Sunshine 65804 6 Long distance; paging; Resale JT Woodruff Southwest Yes T-1; 56K 1984

890-8550 / 890-8552 Internet; 800-888 numbers MO

Ranked by number of full-time employees. Information for the above list was provided by representatives of each firm. Some firms may have been omitted due to lack of information or deadline restrictions.

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