Fiberworks Obtains Authority to Construct Carrier-Neutral Metro Access Network in Georgia.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000 Fiberworks announced today that it has received unanimous approval by the Georgia Public Service Commission for its 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) ) and Other Common Carrier (OCC OCC See: Options Clearing Corporation OCC See Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). ) licenses. These approvals allow the company to construct its previously announced IP-based, carrier-neutral Metro Access(TM) network in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area This article is about the music production team. For the article about population centers, see metropolitan area. Metro Area are a Brooklyn-based dance music production team composed of Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani. . Fiberworks recently announced plans to build fiber-optic facilities throughout Atlanta and fourteen other Southeastern U.S. cities. Among the cities on the company's roster are Charlotte, Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham CountyGR6 and is the fourth-largest city in the state by population. ; Dallas, Ft. Worth, Austin, San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. and Houston, Texas; Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, and St. Petersburg, Florida St. Petersburg (often shortened to St. Pete) is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. The city is known as a vacation destination for North American and European vacationers, as well as a politically important battleground in U.S. Presidential politics. ; Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina Spartanburg is the largest city and the county seat of Spartanburg CountyGR6 in South Carolina, and is the second-largest city of the three primary cities in the Upstate region of South Carolina. ; Nashville, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana. "This is a significant milestone in Fiberworks' progress toward building the Atlanta area Metro Access system," said John Sanders, director of External Relations, "We've achieved the highest level of authority needed to execute our business plan of becoming a `carrier's carrier,' and to construct all-fiber networks to eliminate bottlenecking in the public Internet and telephone networks," he added. About Fiberworks Fiberworks specializes in full-service, professional telecommunications solutions including the design, construction and maintenance of local, long haul and "last mile" fiber-optic network infrastructures. As a "carrier's carrier," Fiberworks is building carrier-class, carrier-neutral facilities that support existing and emerging business communications applications. The company offers 100 percent, all-optical wholesale connectivity to the Internet and to the public telephone network, serving local and long distance carriers, Internet and application service providers and large enterprise corporations. Fiberworks is a frontrunner in providing solutions that eliminate the bandwidth bottleneck in fifteen Southeastern U.S. cities with its newest line of Metro Access(TM) transport services. For more information, call 1.800.253.0020 or visit www.fiberworks.com. |
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