Broadview Networks Announces Progress Toward Philadelphia Market Entry.Business & Hi-Tech Editors PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2000 Company Receives CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) Authority, Signs Interconnection Agreement, Leases Space and Hires Sales Director Broadview Networks Broadview Networks is a network-based electronically integrated communications provider (e-ICP) serving small and medium-sized businesses in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States. , a network-based integrated communications provider to business and residential customers, today announced several developments that will help pave the way for it to launch service in the Philadelphia area later this year. The data, Internet and voice communications provider reported the following progress: -- The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has granted Broadview Networks authority to provide competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) services in the state. -- Broadview Networks has signed an interconnection agreement with Bell Atlantic that establishes the terms under which the two companies will interconnect their network facilities in Pennsylvania. -- Broadview Networks has leased 36,000 square feet at 400 Horsham Road in Horsham, Pa. The company is preparing the space to include sales, customer service and network operations. A switching system at the location - the fourth switch on Broadview Networks' integrated data and voice network - is expected to be activated later this year. -- The company has named Timothy A. Humphrey, 38, of Willow Grove, Pa., as Philadelphia sales director. Humphrey previously was a sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → for Allegiance Telecom in New York City and before that served as a senior sales manager for MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom in Philadelphia. A Southern University business administration graduate, he also has held sales positions with GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Communications and with MCI before it merged with WorldCom. "The steps we are announcing today bring us closer to introducing our integrated data, Internet and voice solutions to businesses and residents in the Philadelphia area," said Vern M. Kennedy, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Broadview Networks. "We look forward to serving Greater Philadelphia, which we have chosen as our first market in Pennsylvania and our first service area outside of 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 and New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. ." New York City-based Broadview Networks currently serves approximately 72,000 customer access lines in New York State and Massachusetts. It focuses on the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Long Island, Westchester County, Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse markets in New York, and on Eastern Massachusetts. Broadview Networks is a network-based electronically integrated communications provider of data, Internet and voice services to small and medium-sized businesses and communications-intensive residential customers in the northeastern 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. . For more information, visit the Broadview Networks website at www.broadviewnet.com. (c)2000 Broadview Networks, Inc. |
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