FTWR Fibertower Cp (MM)

Business in the backhaul space has been growing rapidly in recent years. Demand for mobile data has been a key driver for backhaul providers who are assisting carriers in solving their capacity crunch. According to an article from Wireless Week, the U.S. is a hot market for the fiber- and copper-based backhaul solutions because domestic operators tend to favor fixed-line backhaul over microwave solutions. The Paragon Report examines the outlook for companies in the Communications Equipment & Services industry and provides investment research on FiberTower Corporation (NASDAQ: FTWR) and ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN). Access to the full company reports can be found at:

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FiberTower Corporation provides facilities-based backhaul services to wireless carriers in the United States. Backhaul is the transport of voice, video, and data traffic from a wireless carrier's mobile base station, or cell site, to its mobile switching center or other exchange point where the traffic is then switched onto a wire line telecommunications network.

The company told creditors last month that it was losing about $180,000 in revenue per month. The company has been losing business from key client Clearwire, and also defaulted on a loan last month after missing an interest payment in November.

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ADTRAN, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and services network access solutions for communications networks. The company offers a full line of economical mobile backhaul solutions that manage both TDM leased line growth and enable the evolution to IP/Ethernet backhaul.

Last week the company announced that fourth quarter sales increased to $175,286,000 compared to $165,329,000 for the fourth quarter of 2010. ADTRAN also announced that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend for the fourth quarter of 2011. The quarterly cash dividend is $0.09 per common share to be paid to holders of record at the close of business on February 2, 2012.

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