TEAM FISHEL AWARDED BALTIMORE PROJECT

Team Fishel and FiberLight are proud to announce the beginning of a new 150-mile fiber build linking Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C.

"We are so pleased to have been chosen by FiberLight to help them build out their Baltimore fiber network," said Randy Blair, Team Fishel's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. "Because of our long-standing strategic partnership with FiberLight, we were chosen to help them start the New Year off with a bang."

According to Ron Kormos, FiberLight's EVP of Operations and Engineering, the new network will augment their existing 123-mile Baltimore network and the 299-mile Virginia and D.C. networks by extending the optical backbone past the downtown business district to connect to the growing cities of Laurel, Columbia, Elkridge and Greenbelt while providing greater diversity to the mid-Atlantic region.

The new Baltimore network is part of FiberLight's overall growth strategy for the Northeast, which includes the recent completion of a 132-mile route extending from FiberLight's Washington, DC network to Culpepper, Virginia.

"Baltimore is the gateway to the Northeast and a key market for FiberLight. We saw the need to build more capacity into Baltimore and Southern Maryland to address the growing demand of government and enterprise client applications such as data replication, SAN and Telepresence," said Kormos.

With the completion of the Culpeper project, many of our High Performance Teammates have transitioned to this project under the direction of Steve Hinton, Director of Special Projects. "After spending the last 18-months in the northern Virginia rock, we are looking forward to more suitable ground conditions," said Hinton.

John Palladino, Division Manager and recent graduate of the Jeff Keeler Leadership Academy (JKLA), will also be helping manage the day-to-day field operations out of our new Baltimore office. "I am excited to have the opportunity to work on this project and to learn from the best directional drillers in the business," said Palladino.

The crews are directional drilling four and six 1.25-inch HDPE conduits, setting handholes, proofing the duct, and restoring the right of way in each segment as they move along the route.