David Schaeffer
Management
Welcome to our third quarter 2009 earnings conference call. I’m Dave Schaeffer, Cogent’s Chief Executive Officer. With me on this morning’s call is Tad Weed, our Chief Financial Officer. We were pleased with our results for the quarter in an improving but challenging economic environment. During the quarter traffic on our network grew by approximately 15% sequentially quarter-over-quarter and our revenues grew at a faster rate than most of our competitors. We continued to be encouraged by the increase of traffic on our network as well as our revenue growth. We continue to be optimistic about our outlook for the remainder of 2009 and beyond. During the quarter we again significantly expanded our footprint by adding 32 on net buildings to our network and additionally by adding over 3,000 route miles of both metro and intra-city fiber to our network. We achieved another major corporate milestone in generating a quarterly operating income for the first time in our 10 year history. As we discussed on previous earnings calls in 2008 we extended a volume and term discount program to new Cogent customers as well as to our existing NetCentric customers if they increased their total contract value with us. During this quarter this program continued to be successful. In the quarter this program resulted in over 716 NetCentric customers representing approximately $10 million of remaining contract value increasing their remaining contract value by an additional $10 million or 100% increase. Additionally, as more customers extend their contract terms and show their confidence in Cogent, our average contract length has continued to increase this quarter on a quarter-over-quarter basis by another 2.6%. Throughout this discussion we will highlight several operational statistics that we believe demonstrate our increasing market share, expanding scale and operating leverage of our business. I will review in greater detail the operational highlights of our continued expansion plans. Tad will provide additional details on our financial performance and then following our prepared remarks we’ll open the floor for questions and answers. Now, I’d like Tad to read our Safe Harbor language.