RESTON, Va., XO Communications, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: XOCM.OB — News), the nation’s largest
facilities-based provider of
national local telecommunications services focused exclusively on businesses, today announced that it has been selected as the official telecommunications provider to the Seattle Mariners. In addition, XO is the new naming sponsor of Safeco Field’s Diamond Club, a premium seating section and exclusive
members-only lounge and restaurant.
Under the terms of the agreement, XO Communications will provide local voice,
long distance voice and data services for Mariners Front Office operations at Safeco Field, all eight Mariners Team Stores, and the team’s spring training complex in Peoria, Arizona.
«We’re very pleased to welcome our newest corporate partner to the Seattle Mariners and Safeco Field,» said Bob Aylward, Mariners Executive Vice President of Business Operations. «XO Communications has earned a reputation for innovation and outstanding customer service, two qualities we strive to embody here at the Mariners.»
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By Jon Van
Chicago Tribune
Running a telecom-equipment company seldom elicits much excitement from ordinary people.
But these days, when the conversation turns to the business of making phone calls over the Internet, a telecom executive can become the life of the party.
«When someone heard I was in telecom, they’d ask what they should buy to invest» in Internet phone calling, said Van Cullens, president and chief executive of Westell Technologies, of a trip back to his hometown in Georgia. «It’s a hot topic.»
It is more like a gold rush, and many are looking for nuggets.
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Johannesburg
RODNEY DE KOCH, CEO, ICOZA [ICOZA press release issued by ICOZA]
«The latest telecommunications regulatory announcements by government provide significant benefits for telecommunications service providers, and could not have come at a better time,» says Rodney de Koch, CEO of ICOZA Internet Company South Africa.
The new regulations announced by the minister, Dr Ivy Matsepe-Cassaburi, greatly enhance the benefits users in the government and private sectors will enjoy through greater choice of access from a number of new competitors, and greater affordability to sustain such access. The Internet is an essential part of the e-government roll-out plans — both from an intra-governmental as well as citizen-facing perspective.
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`CEO Issues Letter to Shareholders’
PORTLAND, Ore., Paul R. Peterson CEO, issued the following Letter to Shareholders:
Dear Ontus Telecommunications Corporation Shareholders,
There are many of you who have been following the progress of the Company’s performance over the past years. I would like to update you on the transitions and progress that the Company has been making recently as well as outline our immediate and future development plans. I hope you will see that our core business activities and our plans to build the Company with the appropriate business practices and management will drive our long term growth and future success.
Since I founded Ontus in July 2002, I have been able to maximize our impact in the market and position the Company for sustained growth. I would like to take this opportunity to recap some of our key accomplishments during the past six months and outline our «go-forward» strategy and address some questions presented to me by our shareholders.
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(PRWEB) AT&T Communications plans to reach out and put the touch on its customers.
It has proposed raising its rates on several local calling plans in 40 states to increase revenues from its residential business. AT&T’s decision to increase rates for most of its 4.7 million local phone customers comes less than two weeks after it decided not to seek new residential customers or to work to retain them.
AT&T has notified state public utility commissions, which oversee local phone rates, of its intention to raise rates. It also told its customers of the decision through advertisements in newspapers around the country and on monthly bills.
The increases will affect AT&T customers in states including Florida, New York, Ohio and Texas. Consumers using about half a dozen different local plans will pay two or three dollars more a month, starting in September and October, depending on the state.
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