customers. We were primarily a switch-based company, which means we used a strategic deployment of network switches to provide communication services to our long-distance customers. We also purchased local telephone communication services from Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) on a wholesale basis. In most cases, these other providers from which we purchased services, were transparent to our customers. The use of our own switches reduced our overall service costs. Our core business has been communication services and communications products, which includes long-distance voice and data, local service, long-distance debit...