Mpower Holding Corp. (Mpower) is a facilities-based competitive local telephone company that provides local and long distance voice services as well as high-speed Internet access and voice over internet protocol (VOIP) telephony by way of a variety of broadband product and service offerings over its own network of collocations and switches. On Jan. 1, 2005, Mpower acquired certain assets of ICG Communications, Inc. (ICG). The assets acquired include ICG's customer base and certain network assets in California. The company's services have historically been offered primarily to small and medium-sized business customers in all of its markets and residential customers primarily in the Las Vegas, NV market through wholly-owned Mpower Communications Corp. The company's markets include Los Angeles, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento, Las Vegas, and Chicago. As of February 2006, Mpower had approximately 48,700 business customers and approximately 14,600 residential customers, excluding the customers acquired in the ICG acquisition. The company's network consists of 297 incumbent carrier central office collocation sites, from which it can provision plain old telephone service, DSL T1, and VOIP services. In April 2004, Mpower began selling T1 services to customers using facilities that do not directly connect to the company's collocation sites. Mpower refers to this as off-network. As of February 2006, there were 182 off-network locations that can be provisioned with T1 service. Having off-network facilities increases the company's number of potential customers. Mpower has established working relationships with Verizon, Sprint, and SBC. As of February 2006, the company had over 311,000 billable lines in service, excluding the customers acquired in the ICG acquisition. With the acquisition of ICG, the company's network also includes 1,412 route mile intrastate SONET fiber ring connecting all the major cities in California: San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, Stockton, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Anaheim, plus 915 miles of metropolitan fiber rings in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, and Anaheim connecting 128 commercial buildings.
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