Bandwidth Market Named Top Web Site.Business Editors DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 20, 2000 The Rocky Mountain News The Rocky Mountain News is a daily morning tabloid-format newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. (Despite Scripps still running the paper, it's the only newspaper in the Scripps family not to have the corporate lighthouse logo on named Bandwidth Market one of the best 100 web sites in Colorado, saying, &uot;Now that Denver's established as the Bandwidth Capital of the World, it makes sense that the `world's largest catalog of bandwidth' should be based here.&uot; In publishing the list January 10, the News said, &uot;We look for sites that look good and DO something; sites that provide information not readily available elsewhere; sites that take advantage of the interactive capabilities of the Web; sites that blow our minds with their completeness or coolness.&uot; The website, www.bandwidthmarket.com, lists over 300,000 circuits. &uot;Our website shows the price of bandwidth between hundreds of cities -- Orlando to Cincinnati, Stamford to Nashville, or 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 to Chicago, Dusseldorf, Rome or Copenhagen,&uot; said Howard Holme HOLME Handshape, Orientation, Location, Movement, and Expression (sign language) , company president. &uot;We are now adding tens of thousands more circuits, with yet more attractive prices. Bandwidth Market, started in July of 1998, was one of the first Internet telecom exchanges, posting offers by sellers and bids by buyers. Its website lists more circuits than any other Internet site or public source. Its complex search engine finds and displays offers and bids by city of origin or destination or circuit speed, almost always stating a price. Telephone companies, 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 businesses lease phone and data lines from each other. Previously, these services were provided at fixed or regulated prices, or sometimes negotiated one-on-one at trade shows or by phone. Bandwidth Market charges companies nothing to post their bids and offers. It gets a commission when a sale is made. Its customers include Qwest, Ameritech, Epoch Internet, Inc., NextLink, ICG ICG indocyanine green. , Worldwide Fiber, Inc., IXC (1) (IntereXchange Carrier) An organization that provides interstate (long distance) communications services within the U.S., which includes AT&T, MCI, Sprint and more than 700 others. See LATA. (2) (IXC Communications Inc., Austin, TX, www. , WinStar, Bell Nexxia, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. Telecom, American Electric Power American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) is a major investor-owner electric utility in various parts of the United States. It is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It serves parts of 11 states, and is currently the largest electricity generating utility in the United States. , Atlantic Media, TeleCom Express, and others. As competition intensifies, the need to streamline the buying and selling of bandwidth is forcing companies to change the way telecom trading is done. Holme says telecom trading will be done over the Internet. &uot;Our market is much more convenient and efficient for buyers and sellers than haggling at trade shows, or accepting standard retail prices.&uot; Bandwidth Market, Ltd., Suite 2400, One Norwest Center, 1700 Lincoln St., Denver, Colorado, 80203-4524 Note: Members of the press may, without charge, register and use the Market Floor to determine prices. |
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