RJP --
Welcome to the thread. You've chosen a good day to join the discussion.
There are two conference calls today. Note the times are Central Time:
Subj: MCI Partnership Announcement Date: 97-03-19 17:24:21 EST From: AOLNewsProfiles@aol.net
WHAT: News conference to announce major MCI partnership designed to bring new integrated communications services and advanced technology to rural America.
WHEN/WHERE: Thursday, March 20, 1997 at 12:45 p.m.
MCI Mass Markets Call Center
Dakota Room
504 4th Street
Sergeant Bluff, Iowa 51054
(712)-943-4517
(Light lunch will be served)
** Media unable to attend event may listen in via
conference call:
1-800-988-9674. Pass code: "Rollout"
Music will play before the call begins.
Q&A begins at 1:45.
For questions, dial 1 and operator will queue up
questions as time allows.
WHO: John Gerdelman - President networkMCI Services
Jon Winkel - President Long Lines, Ltd. (Parent of
Northwest Iowa Telephone)
Steve Brevig - CEO of Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative
(NIPCO)
Whitey Bluestein - MCI Vice President, Local Business
Development
Shawn O'Donnell - MCI Director of Transmission
Standards & Engineering
Chuck Long - Chairman, Long Lines, Ltd.
Jim McKenna - President Northwest Iowa Telephone
Company (NWIT)
If you would like more information on the technologies discussed during the news conference (ADSL, HDSL, Cable Modems, Hybrid Fiber Coaxial and Switched Digital Video technologies), and information on technology trials being conducted in Iowa, in conjunction with Northwest Iowa Telephone, a telephone briefing media will be held earlier the same day at:
10:30 - 11:45 a.m. CT
To access: 1-800-988-9612. Pass code: "High-Speed
Access" |