[1st-mile-nm] NM Telecom Business News Items

[Richard Lowenberg]

Here are two exerpted news briefs on Eastern NM telecom. upgrades and
services expansions.
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www.occamnetworks.com/news_and_press/press_releases/pr209.cfm

Occam Networks' 6000 BLC Powers Service Upgrade for ENMR-Plateau
Telecommunications.

New Mexico project will implement SIP VoIP and improved broadband DSL
offerings.

Santa Barbara, CA (January 31, 2008) - Occam Networks Inc., a leading
supplier of innovative Ethernet and IP-based loop carrier equipment to
telecommunications companies, has announced that ENMR-Plateau
Telecommunications, the largest telephone cooperative in New Mexico, has
purchased Occam's Broadband Loop Carrier (BLC) 6000 system as the
centerpiece of its voice and DSL services upgrade project at all 25
ENMRoPlateau exchanges over the next 3 years.

ENMR-Plateau manages 13,000 lines across 25,000 square miles of New
Mexico's eastern high plains. The upgrade features the deployment of more
than 200 Occam blades to replace the system's existing local loop and
DSLAM solutions with both POTS-only and POTS/ADLS2+ combination blades.

ENMR-Plateau has also purchased Occam's new GPON offering to supplement
copper services in one of the Cooperative's exchanges. The telco will
implement the SIP-enabled VoIP served by a Metaswitch softswitch and
high-speed DSL to its members.

ENMR-Plateau Telecommunications, the largest telephone cooperative in New
Mexico, was formed more than five decades ago by area farmers, ranchers
and other citizens to provide telephone services to the rural citizens
residing on the high plains of Eastern New Mexico. Today, ENMR-Plateau
customers enjoy a variety of modern telecommunications technologies
including mobile phones, long distance service, business solutions,
dial-up Internet, and high-speed Internet.

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http://investor.erfwireless.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=289387

ERF Wireless Expands Broadband Footprint in Texas and New Mexico by
Acquiring Crosswind Enterprises.

LEAGUE CITY, Texas, Jan 24, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ERF Wireless, a
leading provider of enterprise-class wireless and broadband products and
services, announced today that the company has completed the acquisition
of the assets and operations of Crosswind Enterprises, Inc.  The
transaction, which closed on January 11, 2008, is the twelfth such
acquisition by ERF Wireless of a Texas-based wireless Internet service
provider (WISP). The acquisition includes all of the current customers and
network infrastructure equipment of Crosswind, including approximately 16
tower locations strategically located in West Texas and extending into
eastern New Mexico, and is adjacent to the existing ERF Wireless West
Texas network which includes 59 tower locations operated out of Lubbock,
Texas. The company also noted that, with the Crosswind acquisition,
critical mass has been attained for the rollout of US-BankNet(TM) in West
Texas and New Mexico by its Enterprise Network Services subsidiary.

ERF Wireless Inc. is a fully reporting public corporation that specializes
in providing secure wireless and broadband product and secure service
solutions to banking and commercial clients on a national and
international basis. Its principals have been in the network integration,
triple-play FTTH, IPTV content delivery, and Internet banking and
encryption technology businesses for more than 20 years and have
constructed encrypted, wireless broadband networks, fiber-to-the-home
projects, as well as secure Internet banking solutions for hundreds of
banks across America. For more information about ERF Wireless, please
visit www.erfwireless.com


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Richard Lowenberg
P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110,  505-603-5200 cell

1st-Mile Institute
New Mexico Broadband Initiative
www.1st-mile.com
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