Contract Also Includes a Fiber Optic Network Installation To Link Doctors, Hospitals
WAYNESBORO, Va. - NTELOS, a regional integrated communications provider based in Waynesboro, Virginia, with an Operations Center in Charleston, West Virginia, has signed a three-year contract with Genesis Hospital System in Huntington, West Virginia, to provide local telephone service and high-speed data communications through a fiber optic communications network. Under the terms of the contract, NTELOS will provide local telephone service to St. Mary's and Cabell Huntington Hospitals and the Tri-State MRI clinic all in Huntington, West Virginia; Pleasant Valley Hospital in Point Pleasant, West Virginia; and the Marshall University Schools of Medicine and Nursing in affiliation with Cabell Huntington Hospital. In addition, NTELOS will install a fiber optic network to link Genesis' citywide locations with voice, high-speed data and video communications. The NTELOS fiber optic installation will provide a fully survivable communications network that will operate reliably regardless of weather conditions or any single facility outage.
"By the end of 2001, the ten-mile fiber optic network in Huntington will link Genesis' facilities with faster data transmission capabilities for optimum communication." said James S. Quarforth, president and chief executive officer, NTELOS. "Doctors, nurses and hospital staff will be able to share images and video almost instantly which will result in improved patient care."
"Initially, our negotiations with NTELOS centered on only one of our hospitals," according to Genesis chief executive officer J. Thomas Jones. "But when we saw the cost savings from this one exercise, we asked NTELOS to review all of our telephone service needs and current expenditures." "The savings we'll realize with NTELOS over the next three years is in excess of one million dollars and that represents savings that we can reinvest in our facilities for the benefit of the communities we serve," Jones said. "It's not often that you get more service for less money. More importantly, this relationship is an example of the Genesis Hospital System mission in action."
"Today marks a significant milestone for both the Genesis Hospital System and NTELOS," said Quarforth. "Genesis will benefit from a reliable infrastructure designed to assure uninterrupted communications. This contract demonstrates that NTELOS is a viable choice for serving all of today's communications needs, from local telephone to high-speed data, to innovative wireless solutions."
CFW Communications (NASDAQ: CFWC), doing business as NTELOS, provides a broad range of communications products and services to customers in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee including digital PCS (personal communications service), dialup Internet access, high-speed data transmission, DSL (high-speed Internet access), and local telephone service to businesses and long distance telephone services to business and residential customers. Detailed information can be found on the Internet at www.NTELOS.com and www.cfw.com.
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