HONOLULU (Thursday, March 1, 2012) — Hawaiian Telcom Holdco, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCOM), Hawaii’s leading provider of integrated communications solutions for business and residential customers, today announced that it had received approval to transfer its stock listing to the NASDAQ Global Market from the NASDAQ Capital Market.  The Company’s common stock begins trading on the NASDAQ Global Market effective today, March 1, 2012, and will continue to trade under the HCOM ticker symbol.

 “We are very pleased to have met the tougher listing standards of the NASDAQ Global Market,” said Eric K. Yeaman, Hawaiian Telcom’s president and CEO.  “We believe that the transfer to the Global Market will further increase our stock exposure and improve our trading liquidity.”