TelePacific Communications Signs Long-Term Contracts with AT&T
Los Angeles, California, March 8, 2007
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) today announced that TelePacific Communications, a leading provider of business telecommunications network solutions, has signed long-term wholesale contracts with the AT&T local telephone companies and AT&T's long distance affiliate that will enable TelePacific to expand its operations within California and Nevada. Under the five-year contracts, which are worth $180 million, AT&T will provide TelePacific with wholesale long distance voice services and special access services for DS1 and DS3 transport.
AT&T Wholesale solutions enable carriers to offer a complete range of services, including traditional voice and data services and innovative value-added IP services to their customers. TelePacific benefits from using AT&T Network Connection (ANC), the flagship voice platform backed by the quality, reliability and reach of the AT&T global network. The ANC platform provides high-volume unbranded transport and termination access of long distance voice traffic.
"Since 2003, our relationship with AT&T Wholesale has been a critical part of our growth and success in the industry," said Dick Jalkut, president and CEO of TelePacific. "We chose to enter into long-term wholesale contracts with AT&T for its scalable infrastructure, pricing certainty, guaranteed availability and high-quality service that enable us to seamlessly meet our customers' needs while expanding our operations."
"We are pleased that TelePacific selected AT&T to support its current and future business requirements, and we share a commitment to providing high-quality service," said Cathy Martine, senior vice president of AT&T U.S. Wholesale Sales, AT&T Operations, Inc. "TelePacific's focus on customer service has been key to its success, and the AT&T network will enable the company to make available to its end-user customers one of the market's largest portfolios of voice, video and data services."
AT&T is a global leader in delivering a full portfolio of reliable and highly secure network, data and IP solutions to the six wholesale industry segments it serves. As a leading provider of wholesale services, AT&T provides complete end-to-end solutions locally and globally for carriers, wireless operators, cable providers, systems integrators, Internet service providers and content providers. The company helps businesses grow by extending their footprint, strengthening their network infrastructure, making their internal business operations more efficient and complementing their existing offers with value-added application services.
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About TelePacific Communications
TelePacific Communications is a competitive carrier that serves customers throughout California and Las Vegas, Nevada and in Chicago through its subsidiary Mpower Communications of Illinois. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Company is the leading competitive carrier in California and Las Vegas, with customer care centers in Los Angeles and Stockton in California and Las Vegas in Nevada. In business since 1998, TelePacific provides services through a combination of TelePacific-owned switches and network infrastructure, including its robust fiber-optic network assets. Offering local and long distance voice, dedicated Internet access, private networking and data transport services as well as bundled voice and Internet solutions and wholesale services, TelePacific manages more than 75,000 customer accounts with 930,000 access lines.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based business communications services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Internet access, and voice services. As part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding video entertainment offerings to include next-generation television services such as AT&T U-verseSM TV. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at www.att.com.
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