Comporium is a diversified communications company providing a Quintuple Play of five services -- voice, video, data, wireless and security -- at the retail level; as well as, providing security monitoring and directory publishing for its industry customers.
Comporium, which is headquartered in Rock Hill, S.C., provides communications services in York and Lancaster Counties in the Upstate; as well as, in parts of six counties in the Midlands: Lexington, Saluda, Edgefield, Orangeburg, Calhoun and Aiken. Comporium also is the incumbent local telephone exchange company and cable TV operator in Transylvania County, N.C. Comporium also has a Competitive Local Exchange Company (CLEC) in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The CLEC offers a comprehensive suite of business communications equipment and service options.
In addition to its wholly-owned operations, Comporium is a major investor in Home Telephone (one of the Spirit/PalmettoNet owner/partners). Home is based in Monck’s Corner, S.C. Comporium is also a major investor in Immedion, which is a data center that provides managed services such as network security, data backup, and server management. Immedion is based in Greenville, S.C., and is establishing another data center in downtown Columbia, S.C.
Further, to complement its own retail and wholesale Security business, Comporium has invested in Austin, Texas-based uControl, which provides a wireless Security, Monitoring and Automation (SMA) Platform that can combine an alarm system, communications gateway and home automation platform into one device. The SMA Platform enables broadband service providers to deliver the next generation of services for the “connected home.”