Sparkplug announces its expansion into Las Vegas with the acquisition of wireless broadband and VoIP services provider Verde Communications. The transaction provides Sparkplug with immediate presence in one of the country's fastest growing markets and delivers high-speed wireless broadband and VoIP services to businesses throughout Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder City.

Las Vegas-based Verde Communications is Southern Nevada's oldest, largest and most experienced commercial wireless broadband provider. The company offers a comprehensive suite of business broadband services including high-speed Internet access, hosting, Virtual Private Networking, managed services, alternate path redundant broadband and hosted VoIP. Verde Communications founders Jason Mendenhall and Ben Brimhall will become part of the Sparkplug management team, and all Verde employees will remain with the company.

"Our acquisition of Verde Communications expands our overall footprint and further solidifies our presence in the Southwest region, which extends from Las Vegas to New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California," said Jeff Hardesty, chief operating officer of Sparkplug. "Our business customers will have broader access to services across the board, particularly for the growing number of organizations that have multiple locations across our service areas."

One of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas, Las Vegas and the surrounding communities are emerging as an important regional and national business hub as companies move headquarters operations to the area to take advantage of plentiful and cost-effective travel and hotel options. The area has nearly 2 million residents and is one of the top 10 fastest-growing economies in the nation. This growth drives demand for high-speed, cost-effective data services. Sparkplug is ideally suited to deliver new and competitive communications solutions to this ever-expanding market.

This latest transaction is a part of Sparkplug's growth strategy to expand its service areas into new and existing markets, and follows on the heels of Sparkplug's recent acquisition of fixed wireless broadband provider, Renaissance Networking in Phoenix.