Welcome to ConnectSouth's Investor Relations center. We are excited to share with you information regarding ConnectSouth's investors, recent news, product updates, and more.

ConnectSouth has obtained $100 million equity and $125 million in debt commitment from investment firms that include Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity, Fleet Equity Partners, Waller-Sutton Media Partners, Bank of America, First Union, and CIT. This commitment makes ConnectSouth one of the best-funded regional DSL providers in the nation, and allows the company to proceed on its mission to bring its broadband DSL network to cities and towns throughout the Southern region.

	Morgan Stanley Dean Witter is a preeminent global financial services firm that maintains leading market positions in each of its businesses - Securities, Asset Management and Credit Services. The company combines leadership in investment banking (including underwriting public offerings of securities and mergers and acquisitions advice) and institutional sales and trading, with strengths in providing investment and global asset management services as well as quality consumer credit products.
	Fleet Equity Partners specializes in the business services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and information, and telecommunications services industries. Fleet Equity commits $20 to $75 million to investments in a variety of early-stage, growth, recapitalization, consolidation, and management buyout transactions, and the firm assumes both majority and minority positions in its portfolio companies.
	Waller-Sutton Media Partners is a private equity investment firm established in 1997 to provide investors long-term capital appreciation through the development of a diversified portfolio of private equity and equity-related securities of growth companies involved in the media, communications and entertainment industries.
	First Union is among the nation's largest middle-market commercial lenders. First Union's goal is to complement its traditional banking products with a completely integrated selection of investment banking, brokerage and asset management products and services.
The information above is specific to a few of ConnectSouth's investors. Overall, ConnectSouth is one of the top-funded businesses nationally and throughout the southern region. Read: Top 50 Companies to Watch and check our web site periodically for recent news and articles. (The above article's location changes periodically, in which case try http://web1.localbusiness.com/Top50/ and click on "Austin".)

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These success profiles demonstrate ConnectSouth's role in providing turnkey Internet services to small- or mid-sized businesses thoughout the Sunbelt region.