Cross Shows Leadership in Hilton Head

June 7, 2005

Recently Cross was honored with the prestigious Catalyst Eagle Award for the 2004 Central Region Business Partner of the Year. This distinguished award was announced by Catalyst May 21st, at the Catalyst Business Partner Conference in Hilton Head, SC.

About the Catalyst Eagle Award:

As a national symbol the Eagle represents leadership, performance and strength. Keeping this in mind, Catalyst structured their prestigious Eagle award to reflect those traits and annually selects Business Partners who consistently demonstrate these qualities in market segments and regions across the country. Specific criteria include:

Strength: Revenue April '04 - March '05.

Performance: Growth year over year April '04 - March '05. (Cross had a phenomenal 70% growth)

Leadership: Overall business activities representative of best practices.

Cross was also recognized with two other Catalyst awards, the Top Veramark Dealer award and the Top Eaton/Powerware Dealer award. These awards along with the distinguished Catalyst Eagle award reflect the dedication, attention and sharing of knowledge that each Cross employee provides to our customers.

As an Avaya National Platinum BusinessPartner and Cisco Premier Business Partner authorized in Network Security and Wireless LAN, Cross has experienced tremendous growth over the past year. Leading the way as a true converged communications company, Cross provides integrated Voice, Data, Unified Messaging, Networking and Security Assessment, Wireless and Contact Center/CRM solutions. Cross is dedicated to becoming your preferred integrator of communication technologies, with values that reflect operational excellence, customer excellence and a value based environment for employment. Our mission at Cross is to provide the best communications solutions with unsurpassed customer and employee satisfaction. Please visit our website at: www.crosstelecom.com

Cross - great to work with, great to work for!