MetaSwitch Wins in Alaska

QUEBEC CITY -- OPASTCO Summer Convention -- MetaSwitch, a leading solutions and application provider, today announced that the Matanuska Telephone Association (MTA), headquartered in Palmer, Alaska, has purchased the MetaSwitch softswitch and MetaSphere application suite to enable the delivery of traditional and next-generation telephony services. Later this year, MTA will begin offering the MetaSwitch-powered services to its 40,000 business and residential subscribers spread out over more than 10,000 square miles in South-Central Alaska. MTA plans to eventually migrate its current legacy switching platform to a fully converged, MetaSwitch-powered next-generation network to consolidate its resources, helping to reduce its carbon footprint.

"For more than 55 years, MTA has invested in the highest quality, most advanced products available in the industry," said Samantha McKibbin, marketing product manager at MTA. "After evaluating a variety of vendors, we chose MetaSwitch because of the company's reputation as a trusted solutions provider and its extensive product and applications portfolio. The quality of the MetaSwitch professional services and customer support organization will be instrumental as we navigate our migration to a next-generation network."

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