Thought Leaders 2011

AT&T is bringing it all together for our customers, from the revolutionary iPhone to next-generation TV services. For more than a century, we have consistently provided innovative, reliable, high-quality products and services and excellent customer care. Today, our mission is to connect people with their world, everywhere they live and work, and do it better than anyone else. We’re fulfilling this vision by creating new solutions for consumers and businesses and by driving innovation in the communications and entertainment industry. We’re recognized as the leading worldwide provider of IP-based communications services to businesses. We’re also the top U.S. provider of wireless, high speed Internet access, Wi-Fi, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services. And we’re making huge advances in the entertainment and communications industry. For example, we’ve expanded our video offerings to include next-generation television services such as AT&T U-verseSM TV. It’s part of our three-screen integration strategy to deliver services across the three screens people rely on most: the mobile device, the PC and the TV. As we continue to break new ground and deliver new solutions, we’re focused on delivering the high-quality customer service that is our heritage.

Cincinnati Bell (NYSE: CBB) is one of the nation’s most respected and best performing local exchange, wireless and video providers, with a legacy of unparalleled customer service excellence and financial strength. Cincinnati Bell provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services to residential and business customers in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.

With more than 37 years experience Esri is a world leader in GIS, and has built a comprehensive suite of solutions including server, desktop, and mobile applications to deliver a common operating picture across the entire enterprise. Esri ArcGIS technology delivers a wide range of geospatial solutions for wireless companies. Companies can access and share data through a single GIS platform for market forecasts, RF planning, service coverage maps, routing and performing network analysis. Whether you need maps for location-based services or are planning disaster recovery, Esri provides the solution. For more information on Esri and GIS-based telecommunications solutions, e-mail rfrantz@esri.com or visit esri.com/osp.

Frontier Communications Corporation (NYSE: FTR) is a Fortune 500 company offers voice, High-Speed Internet, video, wireless Internet data access, data security solutions, bundled offerings, specialized bundles for small businesses and home offices, and advanced business communications for medium and large businesses in 27 states and with approximately 14,600 employees. As the country’s largest pure rural communications company, Frontier ensure that no matter where you live you have access to the same communication services found in metro communities. Frontier offers PC support and automatic hard drive back-up through our Peace of Mind services. Frontier's my fitv site offers an extensive library of entertainment content, an easy-to-use site navigation /search function, and national and local TV content. More information is available at www.frontier.com, www.frontier.com/ir, www.frontierhelp.com and www.myfitv.com.

Created in 1997 as a successor to a not-for-profit education initiative called Luminet, Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc. provides Internet, telephone, and cable television services to Southeastern Minnesota.

The company serves the greater Winona area and St. Charles with hybrid fiber-coaxial networks and Lewiston, Minneiska, Rollingstone, Stockton, Utica and Wabasha with fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure. The company just announced plans for 6 FTTH projects designed to double its size.

More than 40 percent of the stock in HBC is owned by Winona area educational institutions. The stock was purchased for the community’s schools by anonymous benefactors as the new company was organized to build upon the history of Luminet. Begun in 1992, Luminet utilized a leased fiber-optic network to connect the community’s educational institutions for the purpose of extending the reach of teaching and learning.

HBCI, a privately held for-profit corporation, employs 72 people.

On February 13, 1951, a group of 5 men met and formed Hill Country Telephone Cooperative, Inc. for the purpose of furnishing area-wide telephone service in rural areas to the widest practical number of users. Today Hill Country provides telecommunications, Internet, and long distance services in 15 exchanges located in 14 counties spread over 2,900 square miles in rugged Hill Country terrain.

Realizing the importance of broadband availability for rural economic development, Hill Country has embarked on a mission to make broadband available throughout its service area. With bandwidth of up to 17-20 Mbps achieved, Hill Country will have the capability to deliver an array of new services and products to its members.

Also included in this project is the establishment of an access tandem for the Cooperative’s network, which will not only give the Cooperative control over its network, but will also create a pathway for the migration of our network toward Internet Protocol.

JDSU enables broadband and optical innovation in the communications, commercial and consumer markets. JDSU is a provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators, network equipment manufacturers, and enterprise customers. JDSU is also a provider of innovative optical solutions for medical/environmental instrumentation, semiconductor processing, display, brand authentication, aerospace and defense, and decorative applications. For more information, visit www.jdsu.com.

With more than 3.2 megawatts of fuel cell product delivered to over 1,100 customer locations, ReliOn is a world leader in the delivery of hydrogen fuel cell systems for backup power at communication sites. ReliOn works with wireless, wireline and government communications customers to provide solutions to power requirements between 50 Watts and 12 kW. ReliOn’s patented solutions provide highly reliable, fault-tolerant, clean performance and extended runtime at a lifecycle cost benefit over many other backup power options. For more information, contact Fuel.cells@relion-inc.com and visit www.relion-inc.com.