Parent of local data center to be acquired

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on November 3, 2009 at 11:01 am

The board of Nuvox, a telecommunications company targeting businesses, has agreed to sell the company to Arkansas-based Windstream for more than $600 million. Nuvox this past summer opened a new Nashville data center east of Bicentennial Mall.

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Tags: acquisitions, broadband Internet, data storage, Nuvox Inc., telecommunications, Windstream Corp.  

AT&T adds U-verse voice plans

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on October 5, 2009 at 8:20 am

Almost a year after introducing its U-verse Internet platform, AT&T has added phone services to that lineup. The top-shelf plan will cost $30.

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Tags: AT&T Inc., broadband Internet, Internet service providers, telecommunications  

The problem with country fans and the Web

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on June 15, 2009 at 7:49 am

…is that half of them don’t have Internet access at home. Amid the positive national buzz of the CMA Festival, The Washington Post takes a closer look at a recent survey that is sending shivers down the backs of many record label execs.

As traditional retailers continue to disappear and even Wal-Mart, by far the largest seller of country music, devotes less floor space to CDs, Capitol Records Nashville President and CEO Mike Dungan says that what worries him is, “if a sizable [portion] of our audience has no access online, then we’re out of business.”

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Tags: broadband Internet, consumer spending, Country Music Assocation, marketing, music business, social media, World Wide Web  

One way the stimulus can create rural jobs

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on April 15, 2009 at 1:53 pm

And possibly hurt a segment of the commercial real estate sector…

Locally based call center company Sitel says the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s push to bring broadband services to rural communities will allow it to run more of its business out of its employees’ homes.

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Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, broadband Internet, call center management, economic development, government stimulus, Internet service providers, office space, Sitel Corp.