54-YEAR OLD EXECUTONE MOUNTAIN WEST LAUNCHES NEW NAME AND SERVICES

Salt Lake City, UT--January 31, 2001 - Executone Mountain West, a full service telecommunications company, has changed its name to Mountain West Telecom and announced new products and customer services.

"Mountain West Telecom better reflects our broader vision of what communications technology has to offer today," explained Jaron Payzant, president of the company his family started in 1947. "We needed a name we could continue to grow with." Utah's largest privately-held telecommunications company, Executone Mountain West grew 48% last year; Payzant expects to exceed that level of growth in 2001.

"We've had wonderful success over the years, thanks to our great team and longstanding customer relationships," continued Payzant. "These improvements to our product and service lines will serve to strengthen those relationships because they demonstrate our renewed commitment to customer service."

Mountain West Telecom has broadened its offerings of best-in-class products for data and voice communications to provide integrated applications. A pioneer in telecommunications, the company has been delivering mission critical products and services to hospitals, municipalities, the federal government and businesses in Utah for more than 50 years. In addition to providing basic telephone and voice mail systems, Mountain West has added advanced applications like speech recognition, unified messaging, wireless and Internet protocal (IP) telephony to meet the changing requirements of its customers.

Two senior positions have been created and Dale Zuelch and Iain Beveridge, industry veterans with over 20 years of telecommunications experience, have joined the company to help spearhead its new direction. Zuelch, vice president of sales, is strengthening the sales team, growing sales and developing strategic partnerships to insure that Mountain West Telecom provides effective, best-in-class products and service. Beveridge, vice president of operations, is building an operations team to support the sales effort and meet the evolving service requirements of today's businesses. "We're strengthening communications," explained Beveridge. "From Web-based service requests to simply making sure all technicians are available by cell phone, we're focused on making our customers' experiences with us even better." The company plans to add between 10 to 15 employees over the next year, as well as emphasize certification training.

For more information about Mountain West Telecom's new product line and enhanced services, visit the company's new Web site at www.mtnwesttelecom.com.

Locally-owned and operated, Mountain West Telecom provides a full range of telecommunication, data and voice network products and services to businesses in several western states, including Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada. The company also has installed and manages a number of national accounts.