NewSouth and NuVox to Merge -- the Combined Carrier Serves 500,000 Lines

NewSouth Communications and NuVox Communications, both privately-held Integrated Communications Providers (ICPs), agreed to merge into a single company. The combined enterprise would initially have approximately 36,000 business customers, 500,000 access lines in service, and annualized revenues exceeding $300 million.


NewSouth Communications serves business customers in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Its network consists of Cisco packet-based switches, Lucent AnyMedia 5ESS-2000 switches, and Siemens Information and Communications Networks EWSD digital switches.


NuVox Communications, which is based in St. Louis, provides integrated voice and data services using Nortel switches. It operates an LD network based on the Sonus Insignus platform. http://www.newsouth.comhttp://www.nuvox.com