Christopher E. French
Management
Thank you, Adele. We appreciate everyone joining us this morning. I’m pleased to report, we’re off to a great start this year with significantly improved financial performance, improving results in our cable segment and great progress towards our goal of having 100% 4G coverage in our wireless network. Our financial highlights are shown are slide five. Net income increased 87%, reaching almost $8.4 million compared to just under $4.5 million in the prior year. Revenues were $76 million in the first quarter, growing by 10.4%. Growth in wireless customers and cable RGUs was a significant driver of the revenue increase. Operating expense only increased by about $800,000. The smaller increase was held by a drop in the amount of accelerated depreciation on 3G sites already replaced by 4G technology. Specific wireless segment highlights are shown are slide six. We again had positive net wireless additions in both our postpaid and prepaid services with a number of total customers up nearly 1.9% over the year end 2012 number, and 9.1% higher than first quarter 2012. We added 1065 net postpaid customers during the quarter, reaching a total of almost 264,000, which is a year-over-year increase of 5.3%. Prepaid customers grew by 6,227 in the first quarter to a total of just over 134,400. Customer and revenue growth along with lower depreciation expense, and the small increase in cost of goods sold led the operating income in the wireless segment a $15.8 million, an increase of $5.3 million or over 50% higher than the first quarter of 2012. At the end of the first quarter, over 70% of our covered POPs had access to our 4G service, and we remained on track to complete through remainder of our network at the end of the third quarter. Cable segment highlights are shown on slide seven. All but one of the upgrades of the cable systems acquired in 2010 have been completed, and we expect this last system to be finished in the coming months with fiber drops continuing to be installed throughout the rest of the year. Cable segment total RGUs increased by 1,685 in the first quarter, an increase of nearly 1.5% over the year end 2012 total and an increase of about 2.3% from the end of first quarter 2012. Consistent with cable industry trends, we experienced a slight decrease in basic video RGUs, but we did have good increases in digital video, high-speed Internet and voice services. We ended the quarter with a total of approximately 116,576 RGUs. In summary we’re very pleased with the first quarter results and our positive trends. We’re approaching the end of our major capital projects to upgrade our acquired cable systems, and to deploy 4G LTE service in our wireless segment. As you can see we’ve experienced improved profitability and increased cash flows, coupled with the generally improving economic environment, we’re even more optimistic about our future. I’ll now turn the call back to Adele to review the details of our financial results.