A telecommunications device includes a broker module that translates telephone, mail and presence status information into short coded plain-text strings suitable for transmission over low-speed, high latency, high-cost IP networks. In one embodiment, a printed circuit board having connectors is employed for electroplating one or more of the connectors formed thereon. The lower ring segment has a bottom surface, and the middle ring segment has a bottom surface, wherein the middle ring segment is connected to the lower ring segment at the middle ring segment bottom surface.