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16.05.2008« [telecommunications — телекоммуникация — telekommunikation]
usa — verizon to supply homeland security
Verizon Communications has been contracted in a USD678.5 million deal as the primary supplier of network equipment and services to the US Department of Homeland Security over the next ten years. The deal is part of the US General Services Administration's (GSA’s) USD48 billion Networx Universal programme, which is the largest federal telecoms contract ever awarded by the GSA. AT&T was named as the secondary provider for the Homeland Security Department.
Source: TeleGeography's CommsUpdate
at&t
AT&T Inc. is a provider of telecommunications services in the United States. It offers its services and products to consumers in the United States, and services and products to businesses and other providers of telecommunications services worldwide. The services and products that it offers vary by market, and include wireless communications, local exchange services, long-distance services, data/broadband and Internet services, video services, telecommunications equipment, managed networking, wholesale services and directory advertising and publishing. Its traditional wireline local exchange subsidiaries operate in 22 states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin (22-state area). In March 2008, Black Box Corporation acquired AT&T's NEC TDM voice CPE business line in AT&T's southeast region.
verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (Verizon) is engaged in providing communication services. The two segments of the Company are Wireline and Domestic Wireless. Wireline communications services include voice, Internet access, broadband video and data, next generation Internet protocol (IP) network services, network access, long distance and other services. The Company provides these services to consumers, carriers, businesses and government customers both domestically and internationally in 150 countries. Domestic Wireless’s products and services include wireless voice, data products and other services, and equipment sales across the United States. In March 2008, Verizon announced the completion of the spin-off of Northern New England Spinco Inc. (Spinco). Spinco held specified assets and liabilities that were used in Verizon’s local exchange business and related activities in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Subsequent to the spin-off, Spinco merged with FairPoint Communications, Inc.
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