[WISPA] New WISPA Principal Member - Michael Steed of InterStar Communications

[John Scrivner]

Every now and then we get a new WISPA operator in here that I know can 
show us all unique ways of expanding our businesses to do more than we 
do now. I am sure that today marks one of those times with our newest 
addition to WISPA Principal Membership, Michael Steed of InterStar 
Communications. Welcome Michael and thank you for helping support your 
industry through your involvement and membership in WISPA. We look 
forward to working with you to build a better industry for us all.

Here is a little about InterStar Communications in Michael's own words:

I am General Manger of InterStar Communications and we are located in 
Clinton, NC. We were a privately held company started in February of 
1995 by myself and 3 other guys. I was the former President of the 
company. We started out providing dial up service with only 28 customers 
our 1st month. We grew our business to over 15,000 customers and sold it 
to a rural co-operative telephone company in Nov of 2000. Today we serve 
over 12,500 customers and our services include over 4600 DSL customer, 
1100 cable modem customers, 400 wireless customers and the rest are 
mostly dial up. We provide fiber connection to most of the hospitals, 
schools systems, government agencies, and large enterprise customer in 
our core service area and provide services in about 15 counties in 
eastern NC. We
began offering wireless services about 3 years ago in areas that were 
not served by traditional methods. We build private wireless networks 
for customers as well and have an in-house certified climbing team. Our 
wireless service covers about 300 square miles in 3 counties and we 
assist other co-ops and companies enter into this business. We look 
forward to our association with WISPA and hope we can provide value to 
the organization. If you have any questions or we can assist in any way 
let us know.

Thanks

Michael Steed
General Manager
InterStar Communications
msteed at intrstar.net
910-564-4638