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EATEL Selects M4 Solutions for Visual Operations Management
[November 20, 2012]

EATEL Selects M4 Solutions for Visual Operations Management


(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 20 November 2012 Release date- 19112012 - RICHMOND, VA - Mapcom Systems, a leading provider of visual operations management software, announced today that EATEL, a telecommunications service provider based in Gonzales, Louisiana, has selected M4 Solutions as the operations solution to help manage their inside and outside networks for their Louisiana facilities.



The M4 Solutions software includes comprehensive design and mapping tools, integrated work order, fiber and central office management and various support applications, such as workforce management, services management and CPR integration. The M4 software is designed to map the entire telecom plant facility from the central office to the customer structure. The software then ties each map item back to an individual database record, which is then integrated with the telephone company's existing customer, assignment and billing records.

'Here at EATEL, we strive daily to provide high quality service to our customers both efficiently and effectively. We chose M4 Solutions due to the demonstrated technical ability of the products as well as the Mapcom leadership team's similar approach to customer service and satisfaction,' said Kevin Phillips, Project Director for EATEL. 'The ability of the M4 Solutions Suite of products to seamlessly integrate with our billing and financial systems was a key differentiating factor for us. In addition to the integration, empowering our dispatchers and mobile workforce with M4 Workforce promises to bring huge efficiency gains, further improving our service levels to our customers,' added Phillips.


EATEL joins over 150 communications service providers who have selected M4 Solutions.

About EATEL Headquartered in Gonzales, Louisiana, EATEL was the first company in Louisiana to provide phone, Internet and TV over an all-fiber network that offers a broad array of integrated digital services. EATEL recently launched its new TV service, LightWave TV, which provides advanced features such as Multi-Room DVR, remote DVR scheduling and more HD channels. Founded in 1935, EATEL recently entered its 77th year as a service provider and business leader in the Ascension, Livingston and Lafourche Parishes. To learn more about EATEL, visit the company's website at www.eatel.com.

About Mapcom Systems Mapcom Systems is the developer of M4 Solutions - a visual operations platform that allows service providers to manage wireless, fiber, coax and copper networks, including both outside and inside plant at the physical and logical levels. M4 Solutions enables users to integrate and correlate data from existing billing, accounting, GPS tracking, element management and network monitoring applications in a powerful visual interface to all network elements. Since 1971, Mapcom has worked with independents, cooperatives, fiber communities, and campus telecommunications providers of all sizes across the United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean. For more information, visit the Mapcom website at www.mapcom.com.

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