Pat, here's another NN customer for you guys to track over here. This is only part of the most recent 10-Q.
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E SPIRE COMMUNICATIONS INC (NASDAQ:ESPI) files SEC Form 10-Q
EDGAR Online, Friday, November 13, 1998 at 21:42
ITEM 2 -- MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL
CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following discussion and analysis should be read in
conjunction with the Company's condensed Consolidated Financial
Statements and Notes thereto included herewith, and with the
Company's Management Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations and audited consolidated
financial statements and notes thereto for the years ended June
30, 1995 and 1996, for the six months ended December 31, 1996
and the year ended December 31, 1997 included in the Company's
Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1997.
OVERVIEW
e.spire Communications, Inc. (formerly American
Communications Services, Inc.), formed in 1993, seeks to be a
leading facilities-based Integrated Communications Provider
("ICP") to businesses in markets primarily in the southern half
of the United States. By the end of 1997, the Company had become
one of the first Competitive Local Exchange Carriers ("CLECs")
to combine the provision of dedicated, local and long distance
voice services with frame relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode
("ATM") and Internet services. Having established this suite of
telecommunications services which emphasizes data capabilities
in addition to traditional CLEC offerings, the Company evolved
into an ICP. e.spire seeks to provide customers with superior
service and competitive prices while offering a single source
for integrated communications services designed to meet its
business customers' needs. In August 1998, the Company announced
its' plan to enter the New York and Philadelphia local markets,
and to provide long-haul fiber capabilities between New York and
Baltimore through a long-term lease with Metromedia Fiber
Network, Inc. The Company's facilities-based network
infrastructure is designed to provide services to customers on
an end-to-end basis, and, as of September 30, 1998, was
comprised of 1,651 route miles of fiber in its 35 local networks
in 21 states, 66 Newbridge ATM switches, 18 Lucent 5ESS switches
and approximately 22,000 backbone long haul miles in its leased
coast-to-coast broadband data network. |
