Connect's fate in hands of PSC: employees reported concerns, unsealed FBI affidavit reveals.

Arkansas Business › July 29, 2002

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Telecommunications - Connect Communications Corp. fraud case to be decided by Arkansas Public Service Commission

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Connect's fate in hands of PSC: employees reported concerns, unsealed FBI affidavit reveals.

TED "DUB" SNIDER JR. MARKETED HIS company, Connect Communications Corp. of Little Rock, as "a radically innovative telecom service provider."

An FBI affidavit suggests that the company's business plan was so radically innovative that even some employees worried that it constituted a fraud against Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

And Snider's plan was so big that it has been cited as a primary reason that a new area code had to be created for northwest Arkansas.

These days Snider spends his time working with attorneys in an attempt to save what remains of Connect, which shut its doors last year. The company's fate is in the hands of the Arkansas...

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