Ameritech Subsidiary Offers Wholesale Terminating Service Via Bandwidth Market Web Site.DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 1999--Ameritech Communications International Inc. (ACII ACII Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute ACII Allergy and Clinical Immunology International ) is offering telephone companies an extremely competitive wholesale terminating service for calls delivered to ACII's Points of Presence in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of or St. Louis, which ACII will terminate in the Ameritech region. This service is being offered at the competitive base rate of $0.0255 per minute for terminations into Ameritech tandem switches A telephone central office switch that links telco end offices together and does not connect to the customer directly. Also called a "Class 4 switch" or "TDM switch," a tandem switch is a computer that is specialized for TDM-based, circuit-switched telephone calls. . For traffic terminating to Independent Telephone Company tandem switches Ameritech is offering a competitive rate of $0.0695. These rates include Terminating Access charges. "Ameritech is excited to offer this new long distance service. We also like the innovative and inexpensive marketing method used by Bandwidth Market and hope to sell millions of minutes through their web site," said Patrick Earley, President, Ameritech Communications International, Inc. Bandwidth Market is an Internet-based, business-to-business wholesale marketplace for buying, selling, or leasing switched minutes, bandwidth, or dark optical fiber. If a deal is made, the buyer and seller pay a 2% commission. "Ameritech Communications International is a very important customer. Our goal at www.bandwidthmarket.com is to be the best and least expensive place to buy or sell telecom capacity. We are recruiting more sellers and buyers to our trading operations," said Howard Holme HOLME Handshape, Orientation, Location, Movement, and Expression (sign language) , President of the new private, Denver-based company. In addition to the trading floor, Bandwidth Market also offers valuable research help with hundreds of links to Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. and to telecommunication telecommunication Communication between parties at a distance from one another. Modern telecommunication systems—capable of transmitting telephone, fax, data, radio, or television signals—can transmit large volumes of information over long distances. companies, consultants, analysts, associations, organizations, governmental and standard-setting agencies and manufacturers all over the world. Ameritech and its subsidiaries provide communications services to millions of customers in 50 states and 40 countries. It has over 20 million access lines in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. It has over 70,000 employees, over 760,000 shareholders, and over $17 billion in revenue. Ameritech has agreed to merge with SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications in a deal involving over $60 billion in value. |
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