 This is JSA TV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSA TV We are coming at you live from the Lone Star State of Texas and Dallas, Texas to be to be exact at the Encompass 2016 show and I am here with mr. Jason Adkins Jason is the president of Unite Private Networks Jason welcome to JSA TV Thanks for having us today. You got it. You got it. So how's the show going for you? Always great always look forward to coming to Encompass. We have a lot of meetings set up almost a little bit too busy sometimes But yeah, absolutely. We have a market here in Dallas So it's always nice to come down to Dallas and visit get to see some of our employees down here So great show so far Outstanding so far our viewers that don't already know Why don't you tell them a little bit about Unite Private Networks? Absolutely Unite Private Networks is primarily a Midwestern based fiber operator So we own and operate all our own fiber optic networks about 6,000 route miles about 3500 on-net buildings We currently operate in 20 states Historically we had a lot of e-rate focus in our early years lately We've done a lot of fiber to the cell a lot of enterprise business and really focus on both tier one and tier two and tier three markets So for many years we flew a little bit under the radar, but lately have been increasing our profiles on outstanding So let's talk about customers. Who are your target customers? Well, obviously like most folks in the industry we deal with a lot of the content carriers that are buying a lot of things a lot of the Major wireless carriers other than that. It's your traditional a big anchor tenants. It's hospitals at schools City and county governments and in large Fortune 500 type customers, of course, of course So what is the the latest and greatest coming out of the newsroom there at Unite? Well, we announced a few months ago that Cox communications is making a strategic investment Just finishing. Thank you very much. We're really excited about our new partners over at Cox We got our FCC approval on that investment just last week So that should finish up in the next couple of weeks now So we're excited to start working a little bit closer with them However, we'll continue to remain independent and then be Unite private networks and looks at in partnership with Cox So very excited about that We've got several other network expansions going on continue to expand across Missouri and in all of our states And just getting denser and denser in the markets that we're in so you're segueing better than I could ever do it myself So what's the future hold? What does 2017 look like for you? Well, we'll continue to look for great customers that that can expand us into other markets good anchor tenant customers We always look for customers that really value bandwidth and infrastructure as a critical part of their business So we look for those customers to take us into new cities The next city may be in a state. We're not in right now or an adjacent city in a current state So always looking for the next great customer. So feel free to send some our way You got it. You got it. You heard that first from here from us here at JSA TV. They're looking for new customers So Jason, thank you very much for joining us today. I appreciate it really appreciate you having me Thank you very much. You bet and enjoy the rest of the show. Thank you. You got it