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Carriers

AT&T Is Prepared for Hurricane Earl

September 2, 2010 AT&T News ( NYSE:T )

AT&T stands ready for the impact of Hurricane Earl, as it passes North Carolina, with an arsenal of disaster response equipment and personnel that enable a quick response post landfall. To help local consumers and businesses prepare, AT&T is also providing important communications tips for use before, during and after the storm. AT&T has invested [...]

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MegaPath CEO Craig Young on merger with Speakeasy and Covad

September 2, 2010 Megapath News

Craig Young, Chairman and CEO of MegaPath noted, “for too long in the telecommunications industry, customer service and reliability have taken a back seat. With the combination of MegaPath, Covad and Speakeasy, we are bringing to market a leading nationwide IP network to deliver a complete line of end-to-end managed services, including voice, data and [...]

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MegaPath, Covad, Speakeasy Merger Closes. Megovadsy ?

September 1, 2010 Covad News

MegaPath, Covad and Speakeasy today announced regulatory approval and the completion of their merger, creating a next generation Managed Services Local Exchange Carrier (MSLEC). The new company will have relationships with more than 85,000 business customers and over 4,500 partners throughout North America. The combined company will be called MegaPath and will operate one of [...]

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AboveNet now “Officially” Cool

August 31, 2010 AboveNet News (NYSE:ABVT)

AboveNet Inc. (NYSE: ABVT) has been recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine as one of the 75 Coolest Telecom Service Providers. The 75 coolest Service Providers represent those companies that are revolutionizing the telecom market by delivering high-quality telecom services and building strong ties with the channel community. “The CRN 75 Coolest Telecom Service Providers [...]

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Airband and Sparkplug Communications Have Merged, Creating the Largest Fixed-Wireless Company in the U.S. Serving Businesses

August 19, 2010 Carriers

Fixed-wireless companies Airband Communications and Sparkplug Communications today announced they have merged, creating the largest fixed-wireless company for businesses in the U.S., providing a full suite of voice and data services in 17 markets. Airband and Sparkplug customers will continue to benefit from the flexible and highly scalable voice and data services delivered over the [...]

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PAETEC Opens Andover MA Datacenter

August 19, 2010 Paetec News (NASDAQ GS: PAET)

PAETEC Holding Corp. (NASDAQ GS: PAET) officially opened an expansive, high-tech data center today in Andover, MA, approximately 24 miles north of Boston. This new flagship center will help customers maintain their critical data, server operating applications, network, and communications assets. It also represents a major step forward for the company towards supporting cloud computing. [...]

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Verizon On-Demand Cloud Computing PCI compliant

August 19, 2010 Verizon Business News (NYSE:VZ)

Retailers and other organizations that rely on credit card transactions now have a compelling reason to consider moving critical payment applications to the cloud. Verizon Computing as a Service, or CaaS, the company’s cloud computing solution delivered from Verizon cloud centers in the U.S. and Europe, is the first cloud-based solution to successfully complete the [...]

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Social Security Administration Gets multiple 10 Gigabit per second (Gbps) wavelength Solutions from Level 3

August 18, 2010 Level 3 News (Nasdaq: LVLT)

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) has signed an agreement with the Social Security Administration (SSA) to provide wavelength services under the Networx Enterprise contract program. Under the terms of the agreement, Level 3 will provide the SSA with multiple 10 Gigabit per second (Gbps) wavelength solutions to connect several of the SSA’s data center locations with [...]

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Windstream to acquire Kentucky Data Link

August 18, 2010 Windstream

Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq: WIN) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Q-Comm Corporation (Q-Comm), a privately held regional fiber transport and competitive local exchange carrier based in Overland Park, Kan., in a transaction valued at approximately $782 million. The transaction includes Q-Comm’s wholly owned subsidiaries Kentucky Data Link, Inc., (KDL), a fiber services provider [...]

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