. "Bankrupted, acquired by Comtel Telecom Assets"@en . "Excel Communications was founded in 1988 by Dallas entrepreneur Kenny Troutt as a long distance reseller in the US telecom sector at the birth of telecom deregulation. It began selling franchises using a multi-level marketing (MLM) business model, eventually selling over 200,000 of these franchises, or an average of 1 franchise for each 20 customers."@en . "Excel Communications"@en . . . . . "2004Z"^^ .