CTC Communications Obtains Signaling System Seven Certification for Western Massachusetts.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2000 CTC CTC - Cornell Theory Center Communications Group Inc. (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 : CPTL CPTL Compagnie des Pétroles Total Libye (Total SA Group Affiliates) CPTL Center for Trade Policy and Law (Carleton University; Ottawa, Canada) )--a rapidly expanding provider of state-of-the-art integrated communications solutions for medium-to-large enterprises--today announced that the Company has obtained Signaling System Seven (SS7) Certification for the Western LATA of Massachusetts representing another major advance in the Company's schedule to provide local voice services on its packet-based PowerPath(SM) Network by year-end 2000. CTC's SS7 Certification permits the Company to participate in the worldwide voice networking arena. The Company's local and long distance voice customers in Western Massachusetts, when placed on-net, can place and receive voice calls to and from any customer served by any carrier in the world. SS7 Certification is required for each geographic area (LATA) in which CTC offers local voice services to its customers. The Company is on schedule to obtain these Certifications throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States Mid-At·lan·tic States See Middle Atlantic States. Noun 1. Mid-Atlantic states - a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland U.S.A. as it progressively introduces local voice services during 2001. "This is a critical milestone in our schedule to provide local voice services on our PowerPath(SM) Network" reported Steve McGrath, CTC's Engineering Director for Next Generation Network Services. "SS7 Certification confirms our ability to "talk to" any other voice network in the world, but more importantly, proves the integration and inter-operability of the core signaling components of our packet-based infrastructure; our Telcordia Call Agent softswitch and the Illuminet SS7 network. We remain on schedule to have Western Massachusetts customers utilizing the PowerPath(SM) Network for local voice services by the end of this year. Our CTC team is excited and energized in regard to what this local voice effort means to our Industry and the Marketplace." About CTC Communications CTC is a rapidly growing Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (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) ) utilizing a next generation communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. that allows it to converge con·verge v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es v.intr. 1. a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge. b. voice, data, Internet and video services. Today, the Company serves medium and larger business customers from Virginia to Maine, which includes the most robust telecommunications region in the world--the Washington D.C. to Boston corridor. CTC was managing more than 407,000 access lines as of September 30, 2000. The Company's Cisco Powered IP+ATM packet network and its 450 member sales and service teams, provide contiguous Adjacent or touching. Contrast with fragmentation. See contiguous file. marketing and technology coverage throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States. The Company, through its dedicated commitment to exceptional customer service has achieved an industry-leading market share and an industry-leading line retention rate in excess of 99 percent. CTC can be found on the worldwide web at www.ctcnet.com. The statements in this press release that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements including the ability of the Company to provide local voice services on its packet-based PowerPath(SM0 Network. Readers are, accordingly, cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Additional information about these risks and uncertainties is set forth in the Company's most recent report on Forms 10-K and 10Q. CTC undertakes no obligation to release publicly the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect results, events or circumstances after the date hereof here·of adv. Of this. hereof Adverb Formal or law of or concerning this Adv. 1. hereof - of or concerning this; "the twigs hereof are physic" . |
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