CHARLOTTE, BellSouth is beginning distribution of the 2004 edition of The Real Yellow Pages® to the Charlotte, North Carolina area. The cover of this year’s directory includes a photo of the 2003 NFC Champions Carolina Panthers taking the field in Super Bowl XXXVIII. The cover states the «Official Directory» of the Carolina Panthers, while inside The Real Yellow Pages includes a special section on the team and their upcoming season.
«Our partnership with the Carolina Panthers is one that combines the best with the best,» said Bill Ridgway, Regional Manager for BellSouth Advertising & Publishing. «The best of the National Football Conference with the best directory in the Southeast. We are proud to be associated with the Panthers and look forward to continuing our wonderful relationship and the exciting 2004 season.»
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Covista Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CVST), a provider of bundled telecommunication services for residential and small business customers, today announced that it has completed the previously announced transaction to sell selected
long distance commercial long distance customers, switches and related facilities to PAETEC Communications, Inc., a Fairport, New York based competitive local exchange carrier.
The price for the selected customers and assets was approximately $13.5 million, of which approximately $8.4 million was received at closing. The remaining balance of the purchase price is to be paid in two installments, with the last payment due in nine months, subject to final adjustment. A portion of the initial proceeds was used to repay Covista’s revolving credit facility with Capital Source Finance. After closing, Kevin Alward resigned from Covista as Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, to pursue other opportunities.
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By Harry Saltzgaver
If you think your phone bill is bad, what would you say to a bill of more than $116,000 a month?
How about, „We got a deal.“ That’s what city officials told the City Council Tuesday night.
That is what the city will pay Verizon California Inc. for local telephone and data transmission services under an agreement approved Tuesday by the City Council. But the agreement actually is a deal, city officials say, saving more than $800,000 a year, or $67,000 a month.
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MIAMI -- Some South Florida residents are being targeted in a stock buying scam.
It starts with a simple phone call -- a message left on your voice mail: «Hey Steph, it’s Wendy. I looked for your old number but couldn’t find it but Brandy says this is your new one…» begins the message.
It sounds like someone got the wrong number -- someone with a great hot stock tip: «There’s this new company that supposedly developed some zillion dollar cancer testing and it’s going to go up big this week.»
This seemingly ’innocent’ message is actually a calculated scam.
«I could see how the potential for someone to fall prey to it because it was very personal,» said Nancy Fountain, who received the message on her cell phone Monday.
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FROM: Mark Zeigler
ATHENS, Greece – I keep hearing how the Greeks overspent for these Olympics, most of it, I presume, in overtime the last month. I keep hearing how they’re going to be bankrupt for decades, how the original budget of $5.2 billion is now closer to $10 billion.
I’m not too worried. I don’t think the Greeks are, either.
They’ve got phone cards to bankroll it all.
The Olympics are supposed to be all about participation and inclusion and freedom of choice, and they are. In the athletic competitions. But set foot inside an Olympic venue or the Main Press Center, and suddenly those ideals become a distant memory in the name of making a quick buck.
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