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10.07.2008« [telecommunications — телекоммуникация — telekommunikation]
usa — movearoo helps traditional companies keep customers
AT&T, Verizon Communications and Qwest Communications have jointly launched a free website for customers wanting to switch their service after moving house. The competitors are working together to create the site with the aim of getting customers to stay with a traditional phone company rather than jump ship to cable providers or rival internet phone companies. Movearoo.com allows customers who move from city to city to switch services and service providers but only to those provided by the local phone company. A customer can also set up their television with a satellite partner or through AT&T's U-Verse or Verizon's FiOS, but cable is not listed as an alternative. Online comparison-shopping company WhiteFence will mange the site.
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.
qwest
Qwest Communications International Inc. (Qwest) is a provider of voice, data, Internet and video services. The Company operates most of its business within its local service area, which consists of the 14-state region of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. The Company operates through three segments: wireline services, wireless services and other services. Qwest’s business customers include local, national and global businesses, governmental entities, and educational institutions. The Company’s wholesale customers are other telecommunications providers that purchase its products and services to sell to their customers or that purchase its access services that allow them to connect their customers and their networks to its network.
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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