AT&T Inc. Announces Five-Year Contract with Atchison Public Schools USD 409 and Verizon Business is Recognized by Frost & Sullivan as a Leader in VoIP
19 December 2006
Telecommunications industry news provided by Financial News USA (OTC: FNWU). AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) recently announced a new data services contract with Atchison Public Schools Unified School District 409, a public school district encompassing grades K-12, serving Atchison, Kan. Under the terms of the five-year contract, AT&T will be the sole data services provider, delivering Customized Switched Metro Ethernet (CSME) to the district. AT&T Inc. is one of the world's largest telecommunications holding companies and is the largest in the United States. U.S. Starcom (OTC: USTA) recently announced that its gross profit for the 3rd quarter rose to $475,284, up from $10,566 a year ago. Revenues for the 3rd quarter, which includes the recent acquisition of Bell Latino, were many times the total revenues of U.S. Starcom for all of last year. The company's net loss for the quarter was $104,962, an improvement of 56% from the 3rd quarter last year.
Verizon Business (NYSE:VZ) has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan, a leading industry analyst firm, as an IP leader delivering some of the most innovative voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) services and capturing the leading market share among Web conferencing reseller service providers. Frost & Sullivan has selected Verizon Business to receive the 2006 North American Enterprise VoIP Services Customer Value Enhancement Award. The Qwest Foundation (NYSE:Q) recently announced a landmark program -- the Qwest Teachers and Technology grant program -- to provide teachers vital technology for their classrooms. Qwest is providing a $900,000 donation that will help fund innovative technology grants so that individual teachers across the country can greatly improve education in the classroom. The grants will be administered by Qwest partner organizations in 12 western states.
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