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10:15 GST Awarded Franchise in Salt Lake City
VANCOUVER, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 1996--GST Telecommunications
(AMEX:GST) GST Lightwave (UT), Inc., part of the GST Telecommunications, Inc.
(AMEX:GST) family of companies, has been awarded a 15-year franchise by the
City Council of Salt Lake City for the purpose of providing telecommunications
services in Salt Lake City.
GST plans to construct a 100-mile all-digital, fiber optic network in Salt
Lake City and throughout Utah. The network architecture includes expansion
south to Provo and Orem as well as to Ogden in northern Utah. Upon
completion, the network will have the ability to provide services to over 90
percent of the population in the state of Utah.
GST's network will provide Salt Lake City businesses with a cost- effective
alternative to access their long distance carriers. GST, a full service
telecommunications provider, offers integrated voice, data, video, and
Internet services.
"As GST's regional focus broadens to include additional markets within the
western United States, we are excited about bringing superior technology and
exceptional service to these new markets," stated John Warta, President and
CEO of GST Telecommunications, Inc.
GST Telecommunications, Inc., headquartered in Vancouver, Washington,
currently operates networks in 15 cities with 22 additional networks under
development in the western United States and Hawaii, with networks under
construction in an additional six cities in the San Francisco Bay area. The
company provides a broad range of integrated telecommunications products and
services, through the development and operation of competitive access and
other telecommunications networks. GST's strategy is to cluster several
cities in each state that it enters in order to achieve synergy and maximum
opportunity within each service territory. In addition, the Company
manufactures telecommunication switching equipment and provides network
management and billing systems through its wholly owned subsidiary, National
Applied Computer Technologies, Inc., of Orem,Utah.
CONTACT: GST Telecommunications, Inc.
Robert Blankstein, 800/667-4366
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