New Qwest Local Services Platform(TM) Gives Wholesale Customers Competitive Market Pricing for Services.DENVER -- Qwest Communications
See: New York Stock Exchange : Q) today announced a new wholesale offering, called Qwest Local Services Platform, which gives wholesale customers a new choice for market-based pricing on local exchange services. This new plan offers a finished service combination of local switching services, local switching features (e.g. Call Waiting) and shared transport Shared transport is a term which has come into use to provide an extended definition of what has often been thought of and referred to in the past as "public transport". The term has taken on especial relevance as a result of the push to more sustainable transportation or New of local traffic at a competitive commercial rate. The functional and operational equivalent of previous products, Qwest Local Services Platform supports continuity and ease of operation for Qwest's wholesale customers into 2011. Qwest Local Services Platform gives competitive discount pricing for certain volume growth and retention targets. Wholesale customers with increasing volumes on a year-over-year basis will especially benefit from this new offering. Qwest Local Services Platform is a feature-rich local exchange service that allows Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) to offer businesses and consumers the features, fast provisioning and quality of service that customers have come to expect. "Qwest is the first major telecommunications company See telecom company. to enhance its platform of commercially negotiated offerings for 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) customers with aggressive growth and retention incentives," said Roland Thornton, Qwest executive vice president, wholesale markets. "Qwest is the leader in facilitating competition and negotiating commercial agreements with CLECs, and we are pleased that companies, without any regulatory assistance, can work out a deal that benefits even more customers." Qwest has offered this service to all interested CLECs and has already executed a deal with Granite granite, coarse-grained igneous rock of even texture and light color, composed chiefly of quartz and feldspars. It usually contains small quantities of mica or hornblende, and minor accessory minerals may be present. Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. . "Granite is very pleased to have reached a Qwest Local Service Platform agreement with Qwest," said Robert Hale, chief executive officer of Granite Telecommunications. "We're confident that Qwest Local Services Platform will provide us with the products, features and pricing required to grow our base of over 9,500 corporate clients in 155,000 locations into 2011." Qwest wholesale markets group is responsible for the sales, service, carrier relations and operations of voice, data and Internet solutions for Qwest's wholesale business serving competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), and other wholesale customers. The group includes more than 1,000 employees who interact daily with Qwest customers and is responsible for more than $3 billion of Qwest's annual revenue. For more information about Qwest's wholesale services, please visit http://www.qwest.com/wholesale. About Granite Granite Telecommunications was established in 2002 and is privately held. Headquartered in Quincy, MA, it is an enterprise wholesaler of telephone, broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). and inside wire service. Granite specializes in multi-location businesses, providing consolidated billing and one point of contact. With revenue of over $200 million, Granite provides national telecommunications services In telecommunication, the term telecommunications service has the following meanings: 1. Any service provided by a telecommunication provider. 2. to 475,000 lines serving 9,500 corporate clients including 28 of the Fortune 100 companies. About Qwest Qwest offers a unique and powerful combination of voice and data solutions for businesses, government agencies and consumers - locally and throughout the country. Customers coast to coast are turning to Qwest's industry-leading national fiber optic network and its Spirit of Service for quality products and superior customer experience. For more information on Qwest, and its various operating subsidiaries An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock. , please go to www.qwest.com. |
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