News item: Fort Worth switch is lit (cha-ching) -
WinStar - "The New Phone Company" - Provides Switched Services in Fort Worth; Extends National Network of SwitchedWireless Broadband Connections to 10th Largest Market in U.S.
October 29, 1997 06:45 AM
NEW YORK--Oct. 29, 1997--
New Alternative to Southwestern Bell is Dedicated to Customer Satisfaction
WINSTAR COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (NASDAQ - WCII) today announced it has started providing switched telecommunications services in Fort Worth, Texas. The company installed a new Lucent 5ESS switch in Dallas last month, and is now offering services running off that switch to customers in the Fort Worth area. Dallas and Fort Worth combined represent the tenth largest market in the U.S. WinStar, which markets itself as The New Phone Company(TM), provides small and medium-sized business customers with a single source for local, long distance, Internet access, and other data and information services, in competition with Southwestern Bell and other telephone companies.
Fort Worth becomes the sixteenth market in which WinStar is able to provide switched services as part of the nationwide deployment of its facilities-based competitive local exchange (CLEC) services. The company's switched network extends to New York, Newark, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, Denver, Kansas City, and Columbus, in addition to Fort Worth. WinStar plans to add switched services in Atlanta before the end of the year, and is deploying its telecommunications network in the top thirty markets in the United States over the next two years.
"Today, WinStar is giving Fort Worth business customers a real choice in local calling," said Dave Schmieg, President and Chief Operating Officer of WinStar's operating subsidiary, WinStar Telecommunications. "Fort Worth area customers now can benefit from the simplicity of one point-of-contact and one bill for integrated local, long distance and other telecommunications services. WinStar delivers a higher level of service to its customers than is possible from competitors functioning only as a reseller of other companies' facilities." |
