Equinox lands mobile provider contract
Posted on November 18, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Cellular One has signed a deal to use two services marketed by Madison-based telecommunications software firm Equinox Information Systems. Cellular One runs a switched GSM network across four states.
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Talking on a Wi-Fi network
Posted on November 5, 2009 at 8:14 amFrontier Communications, the Connecticut-based company that’s buying a bunch of Verizon’s business for more than $8 billion, will this quarter launch a pilot program in Tennessee that will carry voice traffic over the company’s Wi-Fi network and switch to cell towers only when needed. (Search for ‘Tennessee.’) CEO Maggie Wilderotter says the savings are substantial.
We have tested this and it is a seamless handoff for the customer and we believe we can actually reduce cost for these customers in the 35% to 40% range on a monthly basis, because they’re not using minutes on the network when [they're] on our network.
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Parent of local data center to be acquired
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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AT&T adds U-verse voice plans
Posted on October 5, 2009 at 8:20 amAlmost 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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Still talking
Posted on October 2, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Representatives of AT&T and the Communications Workers of America don’t have a whole lot to report from the bargaining table in Atlanta. Still, the waters appear to be more calm than they were in the spring.
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Nortel unit auction nets $915M
Posted on September 14, 2009 at 9:33 amNetworking giant Avaya will pay more than $900 million for the enterprise telecommunications division of Nortel, which is winding down its operations in bankruptcy court. Nortel’s Nashville-based U.S. operations not that long ago employed more than 1,000.
SEE ALSO: The company’s press release from this morning
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IT honchos: Rebound starts next spring
Posted on August 14, 2009 at 6:51 am
An AT&T survey of more than 70 big-company CIOs has them looking at early 2010 as the beginning of the next economic upturn. And when that time comes, they’ll be asked to produce bigger returns on their IT investments in shorter amounts of time.
More than half of U.S. IT executives interviewed stated they are under pressure to deliver a return on investment in half or less than half the time. As a result, two-thirds cited that the change has affected their IT budgets, strategies and priorities.
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Beacon hires sales chief
Posted on August 5, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Bryan Merville has joined Beacon Technologies as director of sales. While he joins the IT equipment supplier from an Alabama company, he has ties to current Beacon co-owner Joe Maxwell, who sold Investment Scorecard for $50 million two years ago.
Prior to joining Beacon, Merville was director of business development with Huntsville, Ala.-based Mobular Technologies, and formerly served as national sales director for Valutec Card Solutions and as vice president of sales for Investment Scorecard in Nashville. He holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Tennessee.
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Nortel’s Canadian pensioners ‘losing out’
Posted on August 4, 2009 at 11:42 amAs bankrupt Nortel continues talks about the sale of its businesses, its Canadian pensioners are growing increasingly uneasy about their compensation. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.’s takeover of the telecom company’s U.S. estate on July 17 came as a good news to its pensioners stateside, but their roughly 17,500 Canadian counterparts say that development came at their expense.
Diane Urquhart, an independent financial analyst who is representing Nortel’s Canadian pensioners, has published a report on the bankruptcy situation and sent a letter to Ted Menzies, Parliamentary Secretary of Finance.
When one takes into account the prospects for the Nortel Canada estate having a much higher loss or compromise, at say, close to -$0.90 per $1.00 creditor claim compared to -$0.60 for the Nortel US estate, the difference in bankruptcy outcomes between the Nortel Canadian pensioners, long term disabled and terminated employees and the U.S. hedged bond owners with a profit of $0.28 per $1.00 face amount of debt, is flagrantly abusive and crass.
Nortel’s 17,500 Canadian pensioners, Urquhart said, are seriously disadvantaged relative to the other creditor groups in the Nortel realm:
The Nortel hedged bond owners are making an estimated profit of 28 percent. The majority of Nortel U.S. and U.K. pensioners are covered by robust public pension insurance plans; and the U.S. and U.K/EMEA unhedged and unsecured creditors are expected to have much higher recoveries due to their considerable power being used to deplete the Canada estate to date and to extract a considerable proportion of the pending cash proceeds from sale of the businesses.
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Sitel reverses course in Texas
Posted on July 28, 2009 at 1:50 pmThe Nashville-based call center manager says it has renewed its contract with a cell phone provider and will keep open its facility in Port Arthur. What that means for its payroll there isn’t clear: The local paper said about 50 people will be let go, but the company announced this morning it will hire at least 35 people.
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AT&T launches small-biz bundle
Posted on June 3, 2009 at 12:57 pmThe telecom giant is packaging phone, Internet and wireless services for under $100 and targeting small businesses, a market worth $17 bilion a year.
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Hey celebrity, call me!
Posted on June 2, 2009 at 10:58 amOur brethren at BusinessTN check in with a look at BugleMe, a Nashville-based start-up that is bringing the Twitter model to your phone.
A unique revenue sharing model grants celebrity users 20% of gross revenue, following a $150 startup fee. As a result, clients gain a new revenue stream, while expanding their fan base, controlling their own image and communicating through a more intimate medium. In addition, BugleMe provides each client with a Web-based community for users to respond, via a platform of discussion boards, polls and other postings.
Tech reseller adds local sales exec
Posted on May 27, 2009 at 10:36 pm
From a release:
Epic Technologies LLC Hires Cheri Viar as Director of Business Development
Cheri joins Epic Technology on May 26th as Director of Business Development for Middle Tennessee. Cheri’s strong listening and communication skills allow her to quickly and effectively help customers find affordable, productive communication solutions. She holds a B.S. in Marketing from MTSU.
Viar spent five years at New Horizons Computer Learning Centers before joining the family business, whose local operations are run from West End.
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Black Box snags GPO contract
Posted on May 11, 2009 at 12:06 pmPremier Purchasing Partners has tapped Black Box Network Services to supply telecommunications equipment to its member hospitals and health care facilities.
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Ma Bell snapping up some Verizon operations
Posted on May 10, 2009 at 11:49 pm
AT&T will pay more than $2 billion for 1.5 million customers in 79 markets in 18 states, including Tennessee. Verizon is spinning out the units – which are mostly in rural areas – as part of its acquisition of Alltel.
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