Rural telecom industry recognizes Mapcom CEO, John Granger, with national award.
February 22, 2013 – RICHMOND, VA – Mapcom Systems is pleased to announce that the Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO) recognized John Granger as recipient of the 2013 OPASTCO Leadership Award. Granger is President and CEO of Mapcom Systems, based in Richmond, Va.
Granger currently serves on OPASTCO’s Education Committee, and serves on the Board of the Foundation for Rural Education Development (FRED). In addition, he recently served on the OPASTCO Board of Directors and served as Chair of its Associate Member Committee. Granger has also appeared as a speaker at OPASTCO conferences, state telecom meetings and regional events.
The OPASTCO Leadership Award was presented by the 2012 OPASTCO Chairman Mike Osborne. This award is presented to an individual or group of individuals, representing an OPASTCO member company, recognizing their work to the benefit of other OPASTCO committees. The award was presented at the NTCA & OPASTCO Awards Banquet of the Rural Telecom Industry Meeting & EXPO, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida on February 6, 2013.
About OPASTCO
OPASTCO represents more than 372 small, independently owned, local telecommunications companies, serving primarily rural areas of the United States and Canada. OPASTCO membership includes both commercial companies and cooperatives, which range in size from fewer than 100 to 100,000 access lines and collectively serve more than 3.5 million customers. OPASTCO represents rural telecommunications interests before federal regulatory bodies and provides educational programs and publications. The association also has an affiliate non-profit, the Foundation for Rural Education and Development.For more information, visit the OPASTCO website at www.opastco.org.
About Mapcom Systems
Mapcom Systems is the developer of M4 Solutions – a visual operations platform that allows service providers to manage their workforce, as well as fiber, coax, wireless 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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