Who Is Lightyear?
Originally established as UniDial in 1993, J. Sherman Henderson devised Lightyear Network Solutions, LLC on a napkin at a Denny’s restaurant in Louisville. In the course of normal business, Lightyear serves more than 120,000 customers nationwide generating annual revenue of $80M through an independent national sales force of Lightyear Agent Partners.
Business and Network Service Solutions
Lightyear is a competitively priced, "one-stop shop" for a host of telecom products for both residential and business customers including:
- Switched and dedicated long distance
- BizLocalSM phone service
- VoIP
- DSL
- Integrated Access services
- Frame Relay
- Nationwide Internet access (dial-up and dedicated access)
- Web hosting and development services
- Call Analysis software for customized billing reports
- Multimedia conferencing services
- Network Marketing Services for organizations who wish to sell telecom products within a private label program
Residential Services
Lightyear's residential offering, LightyearHOME, bundles local and long distance phone service with popular calling features in two competitively priced plans. The LightyearHOME Opportunity and Starter Plans are available in markets across the country and will expand Nationwide in 2004.
Leading Back-Office in the Industry
Lightyear's history in the communication business provides a rich legacy of top-flight service and support to its customers and agent partners at competitive prices, which is accomplished in part by a 24-hour seven days a week Network Maintenance Center. In addition, Lightyear's Portal Plus billing and client care system provides Lightyear Agent Partners with a direct view into the entire lifecycle of a customer's account for comprehensive account information as needed. Pre- and post-sale engineering support, project management and ongoing Agent training and sales support via the Major Account Consultants and the Network Operations Center are provided as well. As a result, Agents receive outstanding telecommunications solutions to grow their businesses.
Partner Companies
Lightyear works with several partner companies to provide the best possible products and services to its customers. Best of all, our customers derive the cost benefits of multiple carriers and expanded capacity, with the most comprehensive customer service in the industry. Lightyear is proud to have strong relationships with some of the biggest names in telecommunications, including: MCI, Level 3, Sprint, Qwest, BellSouth, XO Communications, Verizon, Sprint Local, Broadwing, SBC, Nextel, Sylantro, Cisco, Complete Communication Services (CCS), Adtran, Voicecom, Iperia and Acme Packet.
