Innovative Wireless Solution is Tailored to Enhance CLECs' Service Offerings

ORLANDO, Fla. (COMPTEL), Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ - Progress Telecom, LLC, a leading provider of fiber-optic based and wireless connectivity solutions for large enterprises and carriers world wide, today announced that Proximiti Communications, Inc. has implemented its wireless last mile solution in Orlando. Progress Telecom's wireless last mile solution is a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint Ethernet offering designed to enable connectivity between service providers and their customers.

"Progress Telecom's wireless last mile solution provides CLECs with a fast and easy alternative in the local loop," said Ron Mudry, Progress Telecom President and CEO. "In addition to gaining the benefit of scalable Ethernet connectivity options, customers such as Proximiti also benefit from our network design, which was engineered to support latency-sensitive applications such as Voice over IP," added Mr. Mudry. The popularity of VoIP and the speed with which the service is provisioned, makes this solution well suited to the needs of many types of service providers, including ISPs, interexchange carriers and VoIP providers.

Gregg Smith, CEO of Proximiti Communications, said, "Wireless last mile solutions are going to be an increasing part of our solution set for customers and can offer great benefits compared to other solutions with flexibility, speed, and cost. Proximiti expects to offer combined voice and data services with this wireless solution and believe this combination of features will find increasing market adoption."

The Progress Telecom wireless last mile solution is currently offered in Orlando and will be available in the Tampa Bay area later this year.

About Progress Telecom, LLC
Progress Telecom is a leading provider of wireless and wireline broadband network services for carrier and business customers. Through its fully redundant, facilities-based OC-192 network, Progress delivers high-quality bandwidth, flexible solutions and superior customer care to meet the needs of carriers, ISPs, and enterprise customers. Progress Telecom connects to all major regional, national and global carriers to offer services such as SONET (T1 and E1 to OC-192), SDH, private line, wavelength, metro and longhaul Ethernet transport services, wireless last mile, and IP services optimized for VoIP and other related services. Progress Telecom is jointly owned by Progress Energy, a fortune 250 energy company headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., and Odyssey Telecorp, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based telecommunications investment firm. For more information about Progress Telecom, please visit www.progresstelecom.com.