McLeodUSA Acquires Mpower Operations in Chicago.CEDAR RAPIDS Cedar Rapids, city (1990 pop. 108,751), seat of Linn co., E central Iowa, on the Cedar River; inc. as a city 1856. The second largest city in Iowa, it is named for the surging rapids in the river. , Iowa -- McLeodUSA Incorporated today completed its acquisition of the Chicago-area customer base and related network assets of Mpower Communications Corp. for approximately $17.3 million in cash. McLeodUSA has provided business telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. in Illinois since 1994 and currently has operations throughout the greater Chicagoland area and in downstate down·state n. The southerly section of a state in the United States. adv. & adj. To, from, or in the southerly section of a state. down Illinois. Mpower Communications Corp. is a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based TelePacific Communications and provides business telecommunications under the name Mpower of Illinois. About McLeodUSA McLeodUSA provides managed internet protocol-, or IP-, based communications services to small- and medium-sized enterprises, and traditional circuit-switched telephony Meaning "sound over distance," it refers to electronically transmitting the human voice. In the beginning, telephony dealt only with analog signals in the circuit-switched networks of the telephone companies. services to commercial and residential customers in the Midwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest and Northwest regions
The Northwest Region of the nation. McLeodUSA delivers a wide variety of broadband IP-based voice and data solutions, targeting primarily small and medium-sized enterprises and multi-location commercial customers. |
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