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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><h1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>In response to the Daily News article: Frontier Communications to expand services Eleven communities surrounding area to gain access to high speed Internet Staff Report Posted on: Saturday, January 01, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal>Dnews,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is a curious statement. "The communities of Palouse, Fairfield, Garfield, Genesee, Latah, Oakesdale, Rockford, Rosalia, Tekoa, Thornton and Weippe <b>will soon</b> have access to high speed Internet." <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ALL of these communities, except for Latah and Thornton, have had high speed Internet from First Step Internet and/or Elk River Cable for years (Palouse since 2001). First Step Internet already serves over 1100 households in these communities. It's great of Frontier to finally get around to investing in these communities, but to present it as something totally new, when it is really just "johnny come lately" is less than accurate. As opposed to a real news piece, this article reads like an advertisement for Frontier. Not that we mind too much. Frontier is one of our partners for our DSL service. But it would be great to have Dnews paint a bigger picture than what is spoon fed to you by them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mike Hall<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Area Sales Manager<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>First Step Internet <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Historical Facts:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Genesee – High speed wireless since 2001. Cable since 2010.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Palouse – High speed wireless since 2003. Cable since 2010.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oakesdale – High speed wireless since 2005<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tekoa – High speed wireless since 2005<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Weippe – High speed wireless since 2006<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rockford – Cable Internet since 2005 with Elk River Cable, now FS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rosalia – Cable Internet since 2004 with ERC, now FS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fairfield – Cable Internet since 2005 with ERC, now FS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>