Adelphia Business Solutions Establishes Sales Operations in Boston - James Crosby Joins Firm to Tackle Local Market.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 1999-- Adelphia Business Solutions (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :HYPT), providing companies with local and long distance voice services as well as high-speed data and Internet services, announced today that it has begun marketing its services to Boston business customers. Additionally, longtime industry veteran James C. Crosby has joined as branch sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → . He will lead the sales efforts as Adelphia expands into the Boston market Boston Market (known before 1995 as Boston Chicken), headquartered in Golden, Colorado, is a chain of American fast-food restaurants. Founded in December 1985 in Newton, Massachusetts, the chain grew rapidly in the early and mid-1990s, filed bankruptcy in the late 1990s, and . Crosby has more than 30 years of experience in voice and data technologies. Before joining Adelphia Business Solutions, he retired from Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony after 22 years with its carrier sales group. Previously, he held computer programming and engineering positions with Honeywell Information Systems, Colonial Press and the United States Air Force United States Air Force (USAF) Major component of the U.S. military organization, with primary responsibility for air warfare, air defense, and military space research. It also provides air services in coordination with the other military branches. U.S. , and was an adjunct professor at Worcester State College
"Adelphia is going to beat the other local carriers through competitive pricing, state-of-the art technology and first-class customer care," says Crosby. "We are already generating interest with our introductory special: We will honor all current Bell Atlantic contracts, charging 20 percent less for the same services. I am very confident that Adelphia will soon be the access provider of choice for the Boston business community." James Crosby is a native of Massachusetts and a resident of Upton where he was chairman of the Finance Committee. Adelphia Business Solutions, formerly Hyperion Communications, considers the Boston market a key component of its network expansion plan. The backbone of the company's super-regional network will pass directly through Boston, and a "regional switch" is under construction here, enabling area businesses to receive the highest level of fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber communications services available. About Adelphia Business Solutions: Adelphia Business Solutions, (formerly Hyperion Communications), a majority owned subsidiary of Adelphia Communications Corporation, provides integrated communication services to business customers through its state-of-the-art fiber optic network. In the year 2000, Adelphia will serve most cities in the eastern half of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , creating an integrated fiber optic backbone network A backbone network provides a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks.[1] A backbone can tie together diverse networks in the same building, in different buildings in a campus environment, or over wide areas. . This fully redundant, 16,000-mile local and long-haul fiber optic network will support Adelphia Business Solutions' full line of communication service offerings, including local and long distance voice services, messaging, high-speed data and Internet services. For more information about Adelphia Business Solutions, visit the company's web site at www.adelphia-abs.com. Photo available upon request (Notation: Except for factual information contained in this news release, any forward looking statements concerning future plans for expansion and completion of Adelphia Business Solutions' network are based on current estimates and projections and actual results could materially differ from those statements.) |
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