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.
Our top 12 for the month features Windstream-EarthLink, Toshiba Telecom, PlanetOne, CenturyLink, Lenovo, Verizon and Extreme Networks.
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.
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 Equity Group has been battening down the hatches at Florida-based Trinsic Inc., the bankrupt CLEC it bought at the end of March.
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 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 […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
.@GSMA Ana Tavares Lattibeaudiere has something to say about #5G. #CPEvolution dlvr.it/RBZk5V
August 20 2019 @ 22:16:01 UTC
.@ScanSource fourth quarter financials disappoint. Company to sell off some businesses and focus on more profitable… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
August 20 2019 @ 21:54:04 UTC
.@Channel_Expo is only 3 WEEKS AWAY and this year's event is shaping up to be even better than the last! Take advan… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
August 20 2019 @ 21:15:35 UTC
.@Mitel tapped by @temgworldwide as lowest-priced in #UCaaS, and big on promotion. #hostedPBX dlvr.it/RBZWnL
August 20 2019 @ 20:53:03 UTC
.@CenturyLinkBiz announces Simple Internet + Digital Phone service. #digitalphone dlvr.it/RBZSHr
August 20 2019 @ 20:18:32 UTC
.@AllianceofCW lands @rishagrant as its keynote speaker for #CPEvolution. Embrace diversity is the theme. dlvr.it/RBZS2m
August 20 2019 @ 20:15:02 UTC
.@Mimecast chooses @McAfee @FireMon vet for new VP of channel sales. dlvr.it/RBZQd3
August 20 2019 @ 20:03:02 UTC
.@CenturyLink, @CWAUnion announce agreement for 8,000 employees. dlvr.it/RBZQbW
August 20 2019 @ 20:03:02 UTC
