U4 Reaches 10% Market Share in Syracuse

SYRACUSE, Indiana — October 2, 2006 — “U4 has reached 10% Market Share of local phone service in Syracuse, Indiana,” says Ben Plikerd CEO of U4. The Switch in Syracuse known as SYRCINXARS1is managed and owned by Embarq formerly known as Sprint is located in U4’s backyard so to speak. This switch houses phone numbers starting with 574-457 and 574-528.
“Back in 2000 when the business plans for a phone company were assembled, we put together a time line. It feels great fulfilling the business plan on time,” continued Plikerd. “Our biggest challenge is educating businesses that you can get reliable and less expensive local phone service from another company besides Embarq and Verizon in Indiana,” says Plikerd. He continued, “Something else people do not know is U4 can easily handle their business Long Distance for less then they are paying now. As an example, U4 handles all the long distance for a National Restaurant chain. They have locations in 32 states and have about 75,000 minutes of LD every month.” Rich Hays, Director of Marketing for U4 said, “Really people should not be surprised. There are a lot of businesses in the area that do a large amount of national business from Northern Indiana. I think people will enjoy watching U4 grow in leaps and bounds over the next year. We have some services in the works that will improve your business profitability in the future.”