Eschelon Telecom was founded in 1996 by its Chairman, Cliff Williams, as Advanced Telecommunications, Inc. ECHELON is a name used in global media and in popular culture to describe a Signals intelligence (SIGINT collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) , a holding company for telecommunications businesses. Eschelon has grown into one of the leading telecommunications providers in the country, providing service in Minnesota, Colorado, California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Utah and Montana. Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Nevada ( is a state located in the western region of the United States of America. Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. The State of Utah (ˈjuːtɔː or) is a western state of the United States. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern
In April 2000, it was unified under the single name of Eschelon Telecom, Inc. April 2000: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September
In March 2007, Integra Telecom signed a Definitive Agreement to purchase Eschelon for $710M USD in cash and debt repayment. March 2007 is the third month of the year It began on a Thursday, and ended 31 days later on a Saturday. Integra Telecom was founded in 1996 through the acquisition of OGI Telecomm a shared tenant provider formed in 1984 to provide voice and data services to The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been [1]