AT&T Inc. Named America's Most Admired Telecommunications Company for 2006 and Verizon Expands FiOS TV Availability

Internet Service Provider industry news provided by Financial News USA (OTC: FNWU) Fortune magazine has named AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) as America's Most Admired Telecommunications Company. The company, formed in November when SBC Communications acquired AT&T and adopted the AT&T name, has garnered the No. 1 spot in the telecommunications industry more than any other telecom company since the ranking was first published. A presentation by Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) Mobile Devices president, Ron Garriques, is scheduled to be webcast over the Internet on Tuesday, 28 February 2006. Presentations to small groups of investors at Merrill Lynch's Communications Forum at the Grand Hyatt in New York will begin at approximately 9:00 a.m. and will conclude at approximately 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, U.S.A.

Verizon (NYSE:VZ) recently introduced FiOS TV in this community of 23,000 north of Boston. Reading joins Woburn as the first markets in Massachusetts for the new fiber-optic television service. Verizon launched the service in Keller, Texas, last September and began taking orders in Woburn two weeks ago. The company also has begun offering the service in parts of California, Florida and Virginia and on Long Island in New York. China Direct Trading Corp. (OTC BB:CHDT) (CHDT) announced recently that its subsidiary, Complete Power Solutions (CPS), has received a $500,000 loan from CPS Executive Bill Dato. The funds will be used to purchase Guardian-brand power generators as inventory in order to shorten the delivery time for customer orders. The inventory in Guardian-brand power generators will eliminate the 4 to 12 week delivery time for direct orders from the manufacturer and allow CPS to immediately fill customer orders and expedite customer payment.

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