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PBT Telecommunications selects 18th Street for corporate web site re-design and focus on customer technical support.
 
August 26, 2005
 
18th Street Design (www.18street.com) announced today that PBT Telecommunications, Inc.,  the 10th-largest local exchange telephone company in South Carolina,  has selected 18th Street Design to design a new more progressive web presence to focus on product/service branding as well as more attention to customer technical support on emerging technologies.
 
"Our goal is to assist PBT in creating a more streamlined web presence that allows for easy navigation to the core service and product areas offered by the company.", stated Jay Wingard, President of 18th Street Design. "By coupling a clean, elegant design with focus on their product, service and technical support areas we feel we can create a web presence that will cater to both their consumer and commercial markets."
 
18th Street Design will create a new web site for PBT with subtle use of flash animation and a more streamlined approach to accessing critical product, service and technical support.
 



About 18th Street Design, LLC
18th Street Design (www.18street.com) is a privately held, award winning new media development company located in the historic Vista in Columbia, SC. Owned by Jay C. Wingard, 18th Street offers creative web development, new media services, motion graphics and music composition. Founded in 1995, 18th Street provides intelligent new media solutions for small, medium and enterprise businesses. 
 

About PBT, Inc.
PBT, the 10th-largest local exchange telephone company in South Carolina, is based in Gilbert, S.C. The business was formerly known as Pond Branch Telephone Co. PBT serves nearly 2,100 households in Gilbert and Ridge Spring as well as parts of Lexington and Saluda counties.