Wisconsin Independent Network, LLC - New Midwest Data Center Opens for Business

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Eau Claire, WI - October 19, 2008 - Wisconsin Independent Network, LLC (WIN), today announced the expansion of its fiber optic network into twelve additional markets in Wisconsin by year end.

We're very excited about the continued growth of our network in Wisconsin, said Scott Hoffmann, Executive Director of WIN. These network additions will extend our reach into many smaller communities that today have little or no protected network carrier presence.

By end of 2008, WIN will add SONET ring network connectivity into the following Wisconsin communities:

Rhinelander
Stevens Point
Park Falls
Mauston
Tomah
Sparta

Beaver Dam
Richland Center
Blue River
Strum
Durand
Cochrane

Founded in 1997, Wisconsin Independent Network (WIN) is part of Communications Management Group (CMG), a privately-held limited liability corporation owned by thirty-one Wisconsin-based independent telephone companies. WIN provides wholesale and enterprise network transport services on its 3000-mile fiber optic network throughout the upper Midwest. WIN also operates a new data center on its network, offering secure data backup, high-capacity Internet connectivity, collocation, business continuity, and hosted services for businesses of all sizes. WIN and CMG are headquartered in Eau Claire, WI.

With the continued growth WIN has experienced in 2008, its network will surpass the 3000 mile mark, with sixty-four points of presence across Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan. The network consists of twelve fully-redundant SONET rings supported by DWDM, OC-192, OC-48 and Ethernet ring technologies.

The WIN network is the largest Wisconsin-owned fiber optic network operating in the state. The network carries a wide variety of communications transport applications, including Internet, long distance, cellular, IPTV, point-to-point, Voice over IP, educational, government, and health care data traffic.

While the WIN network operates in the larger cities across its footprint, a great deal of the network resides in rural areas of Wisconsin. This presents greater economic development opportunities to those communities through access to newer, higher bandwidth applications like Ethernet and Internet bandwidth. These communities also have direct access through WINs network to the new state-of-the-art WIN Data Center in Eau Claire.

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