Wire Communications, Inc.

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Rapid and reliable communications are essential to any business's success. And providing that reliability and speed is what Wire Communications' telecommunication and data transmission division is all about.

Widely recognized as one of the major electrical contractors in the state, the Wire-Comm logo has been a familiar fixture in Alaska since 1968 and a regular presence on such major job sites as the Anchorage FedEx cargo facility, First National Bank, West High School remodel, and street lighting in Anchorage.

But with a growing client list of more than 1,850 accounts, Wire-Comm is fast on it's way to becoming Alaska's preeminent telecom and data system contractor as well.

Serving such diverse entities as the Alaska offices of the National Park Service, Marston Properties, Alaska Fiber Star, the CPA firm of Mikunda-Contrell, Udelhoven Oilfield Systems Services and The Northern Lights Inn, Wire-Comm has proven itself time and again to be the successful business's choice in communications systems.

Offering only the finest in state-of-the-art telephony and data transmission products from NEC and Nitsuko telephone systems for businesses, Wire-Comm is on the cutting edge of today's technology while maintaining a trained eye to the future of business communications.

Wire-Comm is Alaska's leading seller of NEC telephone systems. The third-largest maker of telecommunications equipment in the world, NEC has been producing telecommunications equipment since 1899 and is one of the world's leading computer, video and multimedia electronics manufacturers. Nitsuko is no latecomer to the industry, either, having provided communications equipment to the U.S. and Canada for more than 20 years.

Nitsuko designs, manufactures and distributes key telephone systems, PBXs and Voice Mail/Automated Attendant systems worldwide and has been a designer and producer of telecommunications equipment since 1918.

In addition to telephone systems, Wire-Comm provides design, engineering and installation of data network cabling for teleconferencing, telemedicine and videoconferencing.

However, plans are under way to expand into providing complete computer hardware and software systems, possibly as soon as the end of this fiscal year.

"That's where computer networks and telephony are going, says Maurice Abell, head of...