This combination of technology, resources and management positions us to be an industry leader. XCOM now has 10,000 local access lines and provides services in Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. The company has regulatory co-carrier authorizations from five states, with six others pending. What XCOM has accomplished as a competitive local exchange carrier is remarkable. In the interim, Level 3 has signed an agreement to lease a national network over which it will be able to offer advanced IP-based services beginning in the third quarter of 1998.
Plans also call for the company to expand internationally.
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