TELCO ROAD WARRIORS, LLC

Approx. 150 employees. /// Ladd Engineering and internal. /// Effective January 1st 2011, Trevor Bonnstettor will become CEO of Ben Lomand Telephone and remain CEO of West Kentucky. Levoy Knowles will become President & Chairman of TMS (Tennessee Management Services) /// TMS (Telecom Management Services), which is currently composed of WK&T, Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative, Ardmore Telephone Company, and now Millington, was formed to provide management, organization, and broad-range oversight services to telecom cooperatives and companies in the Southeast region of the U.S. TMS members enjoy a variety of benefits that can significantly reduce the capital and operational resources necessary to provide a variety of advanced broadband services, including leveraging a common MPEG4 headend and network operations center (NOC). By standardizing on the Calix Unified Access portfolio, TMS will further simplify such challenges as training and maintaining an inventory of spare parts, while also leveraging the Calix Management System (CMS) for common management and provisioning, and Compass Flow Analyzer for network traffic analysis and services insight. "When TMS was formed in 2009, we had a vision of not only providing new business opportunities for the original member cooperatives, but of bringing advanced broadband services to the entire region," said Levoy Knowles, chairman of TMS. "As the TMS consortium has grown to include additional cooperatives and other telecom companies, as well as to form key relationships with industry leaders like Calix, the benefits of membership have become even more compelling. While TMS member companies expect to gain powerful operational and business efficiencies from their involvement with the consortium, the real winners of this initiative are going to be the subscribers to TMS-enabled services offered by each of these companies, who will benefit from a superior broadband consumer experience."///