R. Clint Johnstone

NewSouth Communications integrates local and long-distance voice access, broadband Internet access, and data transmission services, without digging ditches. The company purchases unbundled services from other carriers and connects them to its own switching system. NewSouth maintains more than 210,000 access lines for business customers in more than 100 markets in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. In 2003 the company sold its systems-related business, which included equipment sales, cabling services, and maintenance. It is combining operations with NuVox; the new company will operate as NuVox Communications

Founded in 1993, Divco West Properties is a real estate investment firm located in San Francisco and Boston.

NuVox, headquartered in Greenville, SC, delivers voice, data, business apps, and IT security designed specifically for business customers in the Southeast and Midwest. Since 1998, NuVox has expanded its customer base to over 90,000 across its sixteen-state footprint as the firm has enhanced its product suite with state-of-the-art technology. NuVox is one of the largest Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC) in the United States

Bechtel Group, Inc. provides engineering and construction services. It offers technology, development, financing, ownership, procurement, safety, and environment services for roads, rail systems, airports, seaports, fossil and nuclear power plants, refineries and petrochemical facilities, mines and smelters, defense and aerospace facilities, environmental cleanup projects, telecommunications networks, pipelines and oil and gas field development services. The company is headquartered in Reston, VA.