Mountain West Telecom Acquires Teleconnex Utah  Offices

Salt Lake City UT–-May 1, 2003 – Mountain West Telecom, Utah’s largest privately held telecommunications solutions provider, has acquired the assets and customer base of Teleconnex in Utah.

“We are excited to announce another positive step forward for Mountain West Telecom,” said Jaron Payzant, the firm’s President. “Our company has an ongoing commitment to grow in order to better serve our customers. Our larger size allows us to employ more engineers and technical specialists. So we’re better equipped to understand the business challenges and implement solutions using the latest technology.”

Already the largest privately held telecommunications solutions provider in Utah, Mountain West Telecom doubled its customer base with the acquisition of IKON Office Solutions’ Salt Lake City division last year.

Teleconnex is based in Colorado and also has offices in Denver and San Antonio. They are a Mitel Platinum Dealer. Mountain West Telecom installs and services a range of leading brands including Avaya, Cisco, Inter-Tel, and Microsoft, Qwest, Sprint and Mitel. Mountain West will service Teleconnex’s existing customer base, including Tie, Nitsuko and Norstar systems.

Mountain West Telecom, known in its earlier days as Executone Mountain West, has been a family-owned, Utah-based company since its founding in 1947. Mountain West Telecom serves thousands of companies both regionally and nationally, from small businesses with a dozen phones to corporations with over a thousand. In addition to business telephone systems, the company offers expertise in call/contact centers solutions, data communications, carrier services, structured cabling and wireless voice and data applications. Its web site is at www.mtnwesttelecom.com.
 

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