[Advanced Radio Telecom Adds 116 Boston Properties, Inc. Commercial Buildings to Expanding Access Portfolio]
BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2000--Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. (ART), the first broadband wireless Internet Protocol Service Provider (IPSP), announced today that it has completed a master license agreement with Boston Properties, Inc. (NYSE:BXP), a real estate investment trust, giving ART access to 116 of Boston Properties' Class A commercial office buildings in ART's target markets including Boston, New Jersey, New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
"We are pleased to add the premier buildings owned by Boston Properties to our growing list of large real estate portfolio owners with whom we've signed master use agreements for building access in our key markets," said Robert McCambridge, ART president and COO. "These agreements allow ART to rapidly deploy its broadband IP metro networks and provide the building owners with state-of-the-art telecommunications services and other technologies sought after by corporate tenants."
Michael A. Cantalupa, senior vice president of development, Boston Properties, said, "Linking our Class A properties to ART's high-capacity broadband IP network directly supports our mission to provide our tenants distinguished property management amenities and services, thereby allowing Boston Properties to attract and retain high quality tenants. We look forward to working with ART as they build out networks in our key markets."
ART plans to open four regional gateway centers in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Houston and Bellevue, Wash. (its headquarters) during the first half of this year, and to offer its carrier-class quality, broadband IP services in 10 new markets by the end of 2000. ART integrates broadband wireless, IP, and fiber optic technologies into a fully-redundant ring architecture in order to provide IP services at speeds up to 155 Mbps to Internet service providers (ISP), interexchange carriers (IXC), on-site service providers (OSP) and application service providers (ASP).
For more information, please visit ART's web site at ipsp.com. |
