Kenneth R. Cole

VALOR Communications Group is a providers of telecommunications services in rural communities in the southwestern United States. The company, through its subsidiary VALOR Telecom, offers to residential, business and government customers a wide range of telecommunications services, including: local exchange telephone services, which covers basic dial-tone service as well as enhanced services, such as caller identification, voicemail and call waiting; long distance services and data services, such as providing digital subscriber lines. VALOR Communications Group is headquartered in Irving, TX.

CenturyTel, Inc., is a provider of high-quality voice, broadband and video services over its advanced communications networks to consumers and businesses in 33 states. It was engaged in an array of communications services, including local and long distance voice, wholesale local network access, high-speed Internet access, other data services and video services. It was founded in 1986 and is headquarted in Monroe, LA.

Valor Telecommunications LLC used to provide telecommunication services. It was an Incumbent local exchange carrier, which provided services primarily to rural communities. It also used to provide services in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arkansas. The company was founded in 1999 and was headquartered in Irving, TX.

Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc. provides wireline local exchange telecommunications services. It offers network access services to the interexchange carriers for the origination & termination of interstate and intrastate long distance phone calls on its network. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Newton, IA.

Occam Networks Inc. develops and markets innovative Broadband Loop Carrier networking equipment that enable telephone companies to deliver voice, data and video services. Based on Ethernet and Internet Protocol (IP) technologies, Occam's equipment allows telecommunications service providers to profitably deliver traditional phone services, as well as advanced voice-over-IP, residential and business broadband, and digital television services through a single, all-packet access network. The company was founded by Mark Rumer in October 1996 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.