Xfone Fiber Network Expands to Burkburnett, Texas.

Xfone, Inc. connected its first triple play customer in Burkburnett, Texas expanding the Company's new "Pride" fiber-to-the-premise Network.

Xfone reported that its ongoing fiber build out, when completed, is expected to reach 19 new communities bringing the total FTTP passings to approximately 50,000. The Company is funding the expansion of the fiber network using approximately $100 million in federal stimulus funding.

According to a release, Xfone has established its FTTP network in Lubbock, Levelland, Smyer, Wolfforth, and Littlefield, Texas, providing customers in those communities access to voice, video and internet services using high speed broadband.

Guy Nissenson, Xfone's President and CEO, said, "As we bring our high speed fiber network to new markets, we continue to see excellent adoption rates as customers recognize the value and convenience of the high speed bandwidth offering we provide. We're very pleased to have the opportunity to establish our state of the art fiber network to bring voice, video, and internet services to new communities like Burkburnett. With consumers' increasing reliance on the internet, both in residential and business applications, speed and accessibility are very important and our network offers both. Construction of the Pride Network is progressing and we look forward to bringing advanced broadband to more customers in the coming weeks."

Xfone is a provider of high speed broadband services, including Internet access, digital cable TV programming and local and long distance telephone service to residential and business customers in northern Texas and southeastern Louisiana.

More Information:

www.xfone.com

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