Wisconsin Independent Network, LLC

Eau Claire, WI - December 20, 2004 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC, (WIN™) announced today the addition of a new Point of Presence (POP) in Hudson, Wisconsin. "As a growing community given its close proximity to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Hudson represents an excellent opportunity for WIN to provide cost effective access to our carrier and wireless customers" said Scott Hoffmann, Executive Director of WIN. "We're very excited about this addition to our fast growing network."
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Eau Claire, WI - February 1, 2004 - Wisconsin Independent Network's™, LLC, (WIN™) announced today the addition of two network POPs in rural Wisconsin. A new OC-12 SONET POP was established in Oxford, WI in November of 2003. An additional OC-12 SONET network POP...
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Eau Claire, WI - October 22, 2003 - Wisconsin Independent Network's™, LLC, (WIN™) participation in the new INDATELgroup trade association is featured in a recent PHONE+ magazine article:
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Eau Claire, WI - October 19, 2003 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC, (WIN™) announced today the activation of two additional POPs in Wisconsin.

WIN extended its OC-48 SONET network into Green Bay, WI and Appleton, WI. This development is part of a planned approach to gradually grow the WIN network.... Click here for more information.

Eau Claire, WI - October 8, 2003 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC, (WIN™) announced today its participation as a charter member in a new trade association called Independent Allicance Telecom Group (INDATELgroup). INDATELgroup is a non-profit telecommunications trade association whose members are Independent Telco-owned statewide network alliances that provide broadband access into underserved rural ara - metropolitan area - via fiber optic SONET networks.

"We had a very exciting roll-out of our new trade association at the Fall 2003 CompTel Trade Show," said Hoffmann, Executive Director of WIN, and Vice President of INDATELgroup. Click here for more information.

Eau Claire, WI - January 25, 2002 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC, (WIN™) announced today the addition of a new SONET ring to its network in Wisconsin.

"I am extremely pleased with the addition of this new OC-48 SONET ring to the WIN network," said Scott Hoffmann, Executive Director of WIN. "We pride ourselves on bringing high speed data services over survivable SONET rings to rural areas where no other carriers have made such infrastructure investment. This new network is a prime example of this."

The new ring has points of presence (POP) sites at Baldwin, Amery, Milltown, Clear Lake, and Wilson, Wisconsin, and encompasses 183 route miles. Click here for more information.

Eau Claire, WI - December 27, 2001 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC, (WIN™) announced the completion of a SONET network through western Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota today.

"This is a 543 mile, fully redundant OC-48 ring with POPs in La Crosse, Rochester, Winona and Eau Claire, plus POP sites in seven smaller communities in rural Wisconsin and Minnesota," said Scott Hoffmann, Executive Director of WIN. Get the full story.

Wisconsin Independent Network™ (WIN™) will be exhibiting at Comptel's 2001 Annual Convention and Trade Exposition in Orlando, CompTel's Fall 2001 Conference and Expo in Boston, and ASCENT's 2001 Spring Conference in Dallas. Visit our booth to learn more about us and speak with a representative. Click here for dates and more information.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - August 17, 2000 - Wisconsin Independent Network* (WIN*), a fiber-based carrier and bandwidth provider in Wisconsin and Minnesota, has selected metropolitan-area fiber optic equipment from Nortel Networks* [NYSE/TSE: NT] to expand its network in southeastern Minnesota and western and central Wisconsin.

WIN, a carrier's carrier, will deploy the Nortel Networks OPTera* Metro Multiservice Platform in a new SONET ring. OPTera Metro is a fiber optic transport system.

"As we continue to grow our network, we have increasingly relied on Nortel Networks to provide winning solutions in fiber optic networking for metropolitan areas," said Scott Hoffmann, executive director, WIN. "OPTera Metro is superior to other solutions we examined." Click here for the full press release.

Eau Claire, WI - July 10, 2000 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC, (WIN™) a fiber based carrier and bandwidth provider in Wisconsin and Minnesota, announced today the awarding of a bid for SONET Multiplexing equipment to Nortel.

"We are pleased to award this bid to Nortel and are excited about the continued growth of our fiber network in Wisconsin and Minnesota," said Scott Hoffmann, Executive Director of WIN. "The implementation of this network represents a significant entry for WIN in the southeastern area of Minnesota and western and central Wisconsin." Click here for the full story.

July 13, 2000 - Wisconsin Independent Network will be hosting the second annual Vendor Fair on August 2 and 3, 2000, at the Ramada Inn and Conference Center in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The conference will focus on Voice Over IP Technology, with presentations by 6 vendors.
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