Dycom Industries, Inc. is a leading provider of specialty contracting services. These services are provided throughout the United States and include engineering, construction, maintenance and installation services to telecommunications providers, underground locating services to various utilities including telecommunications providers, and other construction and maintenance services to electric utilities and others. Founded in 1969, Dycom has grown to become one of North America’s largest specialty contracting services companies and also provides services on a limited basis in Canada. Its 30 operating subsidiaries serve customers in 48 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada. Headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Dycom employs a workforce of more than 10,000 employees in more than 450 locations.

Telecommunications Services
Engineering. Dycom provides outside plant engineers and drafters to telecommunication providers. These personnel design aerial, underground and buried fiber optic, copper, and coaxial cable systems that extend from the telephone company central office, or cable operator headend, to the consumer’s home or business. The engineering services Dycom provides to telephone companies include: the design of service area concept boxes, terminals, buried and aerial drops, transmission and central office equipment, the proper administration of feeder and distribution cable pairs, and fiber cable routing and design. For cable television multiple system operators, Dycom performs make-ready studies, strand mapping, field walk-out, computer-aided radio frequency design and drafting, and fiber cable routing and design. Dycom obtains rights of way and permits in support of its engineering activities and those of others, and provides construction management and inspection personnel in conjunction with engineering services or on a stand-alone basis.

Construction, Maintenance, and Installation. Dycom places and splices fiber, copper, and coaxial cables. In addition, Dycom excavates trenches in which to place these cables; places related structures such as poles, anchors, conduits, manholes, cabinets and closures; places drop lines from main distribution lines to the consumer’s home or business; and maintains and removes these facilities. These services are provided to both telephone companies and cable television multiple system operators in connection with the deployment of new networks and the expansion or maintenance of existing networks. For cable television multiple system operators, Dycom’s services also include the installation and maintenance of customer premise equipment, including set top boxes and cable modems.

Premise Wiring. Dycom’s premise wiring services are provided to various corporations and state and local governments. These services are predominantly limited to the installation, repair and maintenance of telecommunications infrastructure within improved structures.

Underground Utility Locating Services
Dycom provides underground utility locating services to a variety of utility companies including telecommunication providers. Under various state laws, excavators are required, prior to excavating, to request from utility companies the location of their underground facilities in order to prevent utility network outages and to safeguard the general public from the consequences of damages to underground utilities. Utilities are required to respond to these requests to mark underground and buried facilities within specified time periods. Dycom’s underground utility locating services include locating telephone, cable television, power and gas lines for these utility companies.

Electric Utilities and Other Construction and Maintenance Services
Dycom performs construction and maintenance services for electric utilities and others. Dycom performs these services primarily on a stand-alone basis which typically includes installing and maintaining overhead and underground power distribution lines. In addition, Dycom periodically provides these services for the combined projects of telecommunication providers and electric utility companies, primarily in joint trenching situations, in which services are being delivered to new housing subdivisions. Dycom also maintains and installs underground natural gas transmission and distribution systems for gas companies.