Broadview Networks Turns Up Switch and Boosts Sales Efforts in Boston.Business & Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000 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 electronically integrated communications provider to business and residential customers, today announced that it has activated its switching system and expanded sales operations in Boston. These developments signify sig·ni·fy v. sig·ni·fied, sig·ni·fy·ing, sig·ni·fies v.tr. 1. To denote; mean. 2. To make known, as with a sign or word: signify one's intent. another step in the company's network rollout, as well as deeper penetration of 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 , where Broadview Networks launched service a year ago. Specifically, Broadview Networks said that it has: - Begun using its switch in Charlestown to serve customers in Boston Proper and surrounding suburbs. - Formed a sales team focused on serving downtown Boston businesses and leased space for a downtown sales office. - Appointed three Boston sales directors - one responsible for the downtown team and the other two based in the existing Charlestown sales office. - Increased its Boston work force to more than 50 people, including some 30 employees hired in the last three months. "Turning up our Boston switch and intensifying in·ten·si·fy v. in·ten·si·fied, in·ten·si·fy·ing, in·ten·si·fies v.tr. 1. To make intense or more intense: our Boston sales efforts demonstrate continuing success in building our business," said Vern M. Kennedy, president, chief executive officer and chairman of Broadview Networks. "By serving customers via our network, we gain agility and control in cost-effectively offering bundled communications solutions and introducing new services and technologies. Further, our increased emphasis on downtown business accounts supports our strategy of deepening deep·en tr. & intr.v. deep·ened, deep·en·ing, deep·ens To make or become deep or deeper. Noun 1. deepening - a process of becoming deeper and more profound our presence in existing markets." The Boston switch activation follows Broadview Networks' deployment of switches in 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. in the third quarter of 1999 and Syracuse, N.Y., in the first quarter of this year. A fourth switch, in the Philadelphia suburb of Horsham, Pa., is being prepared to begin handling traffic in December 2000. To focus on downtown Boston business customers, Broadview Networks has hired a 15-member dedicated sales team and leased space at 10 High St. for a downtown sales office. Customers may call 800-269-8330 to reach the sales team (now and after it moves to the new office from temporary quarters later this year). With the creation of the downtown team, the sales staff in Charlestown, at 617-918-9881, will concentrate on serving suburban customers in the Route 128 Belt. Heading the downtown sales team is Sales Director Thomas S. Chamberlain, 35, of Mont Vernon, N.H. Also named recently and based in Charlestown are Sales Directors Glenn A. Maltais, 39, of Lakeville, Mass., and David S. Robart, 37, of Framingham, Mass. Together, the sales directors have 13 years industry experience. They have provided integrated communications solutions to customers in Greater Boston Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston, Massachusetts. While Metro Boston tends to be the "Inner Core" surrounding the City of Boston, Greater Boston overlaps the North and South Shores, as well as the MetroWest region. 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. while employed by companies including Conversent Communications, USN Communications, AT&T and Sprint. In addition to the Boston area, current Broadview Networks target markets are metropolitan 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 (including Long Island and Westchester and Rockland counties), and Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse, N.Y., as well as Greater Philadelphia. 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. Broadview Networks and the Broadview Networks logo are trademarks of Broadview Networks, Inc. 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