Channel Partners’ Top 12 Stories in March
Our top 12 for the month features Windstream-EarthLink, Toshiba Telecom, PlanetOne, CenturyLink, Lenovo, Verizon and Extreme Networks.
March
Channel Partners’ Top 10 Stories in March
In March, you were talking about the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, Frontier’s acquisition of Verizon assets wrapping up, people on the move, awards, RingCentral, a new Comcast cloud relationship and more.
Verizon: CWA March ‘Shallow’ and Just a ‘Sideshow’
Communications Workers of America members have been rallying with Occupy protestors in New York, something Verizon calls “misguided and odd.”
Platinum Uproots Trinsic Ops
Platinum Uproots Trinsic Ops Platinum Equity Group has been battening down the hatches at Florida-based Trinsic Inc., the bankrupt CLEC it bought at the end of March.
NEWS BRIEFS
Wholesale service provider Pac-West Telecomm Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 1. The beleaguered company has secured $18.5 in debtor-inpossession financing to fund operations during reorganization. Pac-West has watched revenue from ISPs decline as it simultaneously has spent millions building out its network. It also sold its retail business to TelePacific Communications in […]
Platinum Uproots Trinsic Ops
Platinum Equity Group has been battening down the hatches at Florida-based Trinsic Inc., the bankrupt CLEC it bought at the end of March. Michael Rogers, the channel manager, was laid off in mid-April and CEO Trey Davis has been told he wont be part of the new company. At press time, he still was working […]
News Briefs
Telecom industry veteran Howard Janzen is taking over as CEO of One Communications. Janzen replaces Thomas Casey, who served as CEO after CTC Communications and Choice One Communications merged last year. Janzen also will sit on the board of directors. He most recently was president of Sprint Business Solutions, where he oversaw Sprints worldwide business […]
Vonage Shares Halt Trading in Wake of Federal Injunction
Vonage Holdings Corp. shares stopped trading on Friday afternoon after a federal judge permanently barred the company from using technology owned by Verizon Communications Inc. The decision came two weeks after a jury declared that Vonage had infringed on Verizons intellectual property. The technology involves connecting IP calls to the PSTN. On March 23, U.S. […]
Channel Partners Announces Winning Numbers and Attendees
The Channel Partners Conference & Expo is pleased to announce that more than 3,000 attendees were at the March 4-6 Expo in Las Vegas. Of these attendees, three were chosen to receive the prize giveaways: A $1,000 Best Buy Gift Card was awarded on the show floor on Saturday, March 4, to Ralph Bevilaqua […]
Dont Miss These Free Workshops!
Discover new opportunities and technologies in tutorials presented by top companies exhibiting at Channel Partners! Attendees can find out more about hot opportunities in the following free vendor-sponsored workshops: Sunday, March 4, 3:30-4:20 p.m. Accelerating Adoption to Hosted IP Telephony A New Model for Hosted IP Service Providers In this session, Citel and research firm […]
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.@8x8 appoints @RingCentral vet as new CMO. #UCaaS dlvr.it/Rv3RKp
March 05 2021 @ 21:15:32 UTC
.@Nextiva partners with @dandh for #UC channel distribution. dlvr.it/Rv3RHF
March 05 2021 @ 21:15:32 UTC
ICYMI: these were the top stories of the week. dlvr.it/Rv2tVK
March 05 2021 @ 17:55:02 UTC
.@smbsecuritytech of @SOCSoter excels at connecting the dots in technology — understanding its importance and commu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
March 05 2021 @ 16:03:02 UTC
We partnered with @Telecom4Change in an effort to raise money for food relief organization @WCKitchen.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
March 04 2021 @ 22:47:02 UTC
See what @TBImasteragent has been up to this week. dlvr.it/RtznhW
March 04 2021 @ 22:28:02 UTC
Thanks for attending #CPVirtual. Here's a Day 3 wrap and a look ahead to #CPExpo Homecoming in November!… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
March 04 2021 @ 21:12:02 UTC
.@voxns, @Converge_One, @ATT and Optivor Technologies are recipients of @Avaya's U.S. Partner of the Year Awards. dlvr.it/RtzRGR
March 04 2021 @ 20:05:32 UTC