Charles G. Taylor

Americatel has been owned and operated by its parent company, Platinum Equity, LLC since 2006 and is part of a growing family of telecom companies in the Platinum Equity portfolio including Matrix Telecom. Inc., Covad Communications (www.covad.com), and DCA Services www.dcaservices.com. Americatel has been the leading provider of telecommunications services to ethnic consumers and businesses in the United States and Canada. The company also works with international long-distance carriers and Internet service providers transacting with the world's emerging economies. Americatel services connect world-wide communities through a flexible network of owned and leased facilities, operating and termination agreements, and resale arrangements. Americatel's technology assets include an extensive network of IP gateways, international gateways, and switches. Americatel Corporation services consumers in North America through its Americatel brand and through its wholly owned subsidiary, Startec Global Communications (http://www.startec.com/). Americatel-branded services are primarily targeted to Hispanic consumers in the United States. Services range from the highly recognized 1010-123 dial around service to the rapidly growing Cellular Accesso and LíneaPaís services. Americatel's spokesperson, Don Francisco, is one of the most recognized Hispanic celebrities and his television variety show reaches millions of people weekly.

Startec Global Communications Corp. provides telephone, Internet and communications services. The firm's services connect worldwide communities spanning the Pacific Rim, Middle East, North Africa, Russia, Central Europe, and North and South America. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Englewood, CO.

Pacific Gateway Exchange Inc. was founded on August 8, 1991 to capitalize on the significant growth opportunities in the international telecommunications services market. It provided telecommunications, Internet and bandwidth services and operated as a state of the art high bandwidth fiber optic network connecting key metropolitan centers in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. The company acquired its own global network of undersea cables and land based facilities in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Pacific and it supports three major lines of business which include telecommunications, Internet and bandwidth services. Pacific Gateway Exchange business lines complements and creates synergies that are highly conducive to further growth and profitability and its fiber optic network lowers the cost of telecommunications operations.

VarTec Telecom, Inc. provides local and long-distance telecommunications services to business and residential customers in the US, Canada and Europe. It has its own switching and network infrastructure in the U.S. and Europe. The company was founded by A. Joe Mitchell Jr. in February, 1989 and is located in Carrollton, TX.

Matrix Telecom LLC provides telecommunication services. It offers services under brand names such as Global Crossing, Verizon Business, XO Communications, Paetec, Broadwing, Covad, AT&T, Qwest, Unyte and Intercall. The company was founded by Charles G. Taylor in 1990 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.