OTELCO INC. (OTEL)

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Otelco Inc., (NASDAQ: OTEL) headquartered in Oneonta, Alabama, provides wireline telephone services in
Alabama, Maine,
Massachusetts,
Missouri,
New Hampshire,
Vermont and West Virginia.
The Company’s services include local and long distance telephone,

network access, transport, digital high-speed data lines and dial-up Internet access, cable television and other telephone related services.

With more than 98,000 voice and data access lines which are collectively referred to as access line equivalents, Otelco is among the top 25 largest local exchange carriers in the United States based on number of access lines.

Otelco operates eleven incumbent telephone companies serving rural markets, or rural local exchange carriers. It also provides competitive retail and wholesale communications services through several subsidiaries.