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# # #About Birch CommunicationsHeadquartered in Atlanta, Ga., Birch Communications provides managed communications andinformation technology services to a target market of small- and medium-sized businesses inselect metropolitan areas within 38 states across the United States. Birch services include localand long distance voice, broadband Internet access, T1, PRI, bonded T1, integrated PRI, mobilevoice and data, e-mail, web-hosting, voicemail, prepaid, and many other communications andinformation technology services. Birch voice and data services are, in most cases, deliveredusing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology on the company’s secure IP-Network ratherthan over the public Internet.According to Inc. 500|5000 magazine in its 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2011 rankings, Birch was oneof the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. In 2010, Birch was also named the7 th fastest growing private business in Atlanta, and one of the Top 100 Private Companies inAtlanta in 2010 and 2011, by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Please visit www.birch.com formore information.About Bank of America Merchant ServicesBank of America Merchant Services is a premiere payments company providing the technology,innovative products and industry track record of First Data with the relationship strength,geographical coverage and prominent global brand of Bank of America to serve existing andfuture clients. This has made Bank of America Merchant Services the number one-ratedelectronic payments processor in the industry. 1 Bank of America Merchant Services delivers acomprehensive suite of payment solutions – including point of sale payments, gift card andloyalty programs, ecommerce solutions, terminals and point-of-sale solutions – to merchants ofall sizes. The company has an expansive geographic footprint with more than 350,000 merchantrelationships across the United States, processing more than 8 billion transactions every year. Formore information, visit www.bankofamerica.com/merchantservices.1 Based on bankcard, other credit, and PIN debit sales volume and transactions. Per The Nilson Report, March 2011,Issue 967