FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FROM: CHIP ANDERSON, PRESIDENT, VOLT TELECOM GROUP
DATE: JANUARY 22, 2007

Corona, CA -- Volt Telecom Group continues to position itself as premier service organization for voice, data and video infrastructure through the formation of a new business unit and the promotion of Sam Edmondson (picture at right) to Vice President – Wireless Network Solutions. This newly formed division will enable Volt Telecom Group to grow our wireless business for both government and private sectors and enlarge our footprint in the areas of maintenance, upgrades and infrastructure builds within the wireless industry.

“I firmly believe that we have the capability to provide customers with our wireless network solution,” said Edmondson. “There are incredible opportunities for Wi-Fi, WiMAX, WiMesh, Microwave, Free Space Optics (FSO) and Cellular network infrastructure builds, upgrades and maintenance and I think we have the infrastructure in place to rapidly respond to new customer requirements.”

Edmondson has 24 years of industry experience, including 12 with Volt Telecom Group. He started his industry career path as a National Accounts Manager for Northern Telecom in Nashville, TN.  Moving to California, Edmondson continued as a Major Accounts Manager – AT&T for Alltel Corporation, where he received numerous sales awards during his tenure. He moved to Pacific Telesis Group where he assisted in a start-up business initiative to offer Pacific Bell turn-key engineering and installation services of telecommunications Controlled Environmental Vaults (CEVs) and above ground Huts. Prior to Volt Telecom Group he was a Director of Sales and Marketing for Brumfield Network Communications, a start-up distributor of Broadband components in Alameda, CA.

Edmondson began his career with Volt Telecom Group as a Director of National Sales in 1995, and was instrumental in developing the company’s first professional sales department, growing them from a loosely organized small sales force of three (3) individuals to a total of eighteen (18) National Account Managers. Through his leadership and expertise, his team increased profitable revenue almost 1,500 percent between 1995 and 2000.  In addition, he restructured and expanded sales’ focus from one-dimensional (Customer Premise) disciplines to represent our companywide capabilities that included Outside Plant Construction & Engineering, Central Office EF&I, Wireless and Telecom Staffing within his first two years of employment. In 2004, Sam achieved 136 percent of revenue target with an effective cost-of-sales ratio of 5 percent, earning him the President’s “Excellence In Management” Award.

Edmondson was graduated from Georgia Southern University with BS Degree – Business
Administration – Marketing.

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