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Thursday February 25, 8:42 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Teligent, Inc.
Teligent Introduces Revolutionary, Lower-Cost Communications Services In New Orleans
Smartwave(TM) Technology Puts Small And Medium-Sized Businesses on the 'E-Map' In 24 Markets Across the Country
VIENNA, Va., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Teligent today launched its revolutionary, high-bandwidth communications services for small and medium- sized businesses in New Orleans. With today's launch, Teligent now serves customers in 24 of the nation's top markets.
Teligent offers customers savings of up to 30 percent on local, long distance, high-speed data and dedicated Internet services. Using its digital SmartWave(TM) technology, Teligent gives smaller businesses the high network speed and capacity -- up to 45 megabits per second -- previously available only to larger companies at much higher prices.
''Now small and mid-sized companies in New Orleans have access to high- speed, high-capacity voice and data services at significant savings that until now have not been available to them,'' said Teligent Chairman and CEO Alex J. Mandl. ''We call it putting businesses on the e-map.''
Including today's launch in New Orleans, Teligent service is available in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, San Jose, San Francisco-Oakland, Jacksonville, Washington DC, Boston, Austin, Denver, Atlanta, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, West Palm Beach, Milwaukee and Wilmington, Del.
Together, those 24 markets comprise more than 405 cities and towns with a combined population of more than 66 million. By year-end, Teligent expects to offer service in 40 markets across the country.
Commercial and residential land developer Ike Harris & Company is using Teligent's service in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Ike Harris, a 50-year veteran of the business, selected Teligent because his company wanted an integrated package of communications services from one company on one bill.
''Teligent provides good service, they do it for less, and they do it consistently,'' said Susan Sacknoff, office manager, Ike Harris & Company. ''That may not sound exciting, but as an accountant, getting good value is exciting to me.''
Teligent offers small and medium-sized companies a flat monthly bill that represents savings of up to 30 percent off the rates they pay their current local telephone company, national long distance carrier and Internet provider.
To qualify for the maximum discount, customers switch their existing service -- local, long distance or Internet -- and sign up with Teligent for a minimum of one year. Teligent averages several representative bills from the customer's current carriers and deducts up to 30 percent. That figure becomes the customer's new flat monthly rate. In most cases, it's as simple as that. Local and Internet service are unlimited. If customers wish to increase their long distance usage over current levels, they can purchase more service at attractive prices.
Teligent service also features eomagine(SM), an interactive, Web-based business management tool that transforms a customer's communications bill into a simple, predictable package. Using their Internet browser, customers can access their billing and account information anytime they choose. eomagine(SM) allows them to sort and analyze calls by account code, originating number or other criteria -- virtually any way they like. And they also can download data for their own use -- every day. That means they won't have to wait for a paper bill to arrive in the mail every month to keep abreast of their communications activity.
Many of the benefits that Teligent offers its customers -- simplicity, service, savings and speed -- are the direct result of its digital SmartWave(TM) technology.
''SmartWave(TM) technology enables us to help businesses such as Ike Harris & Associates, whether they've been established in the last five or 50 years to compete with any company, no matter how big,'' said Teligent President and Chief Operating Officer Kirby G. Pickle Jr.
SmartWave(TM) technology represents a marriage of proven high-frequency radio transmission equipment with latest advances in point-to-multipoint radio technology, enabling Teligent to increase its local network efficiency and reduce network costs.
Instead of digging up streets, Teligent delivers service by installing small antennas on the roofs of customer buildings. When a customer picks up a telephone, turns on a computer or activates a videoconference, the signal travels over inside wiring to the rooftop antenna. The customer building antenna then relays the voice, data or video signals to a Teligent base station antenna.
The base station antenna gathers signals from a cluster of surrounding customer buildings, aggregates the signals and then routes them to a Teligent broadband switching center. At the switching center, Teligent uses ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) switches and data routers along with Nortel DMS switches to hand off the traffic to other networks -- the public circuit- switched voice network, the packet-switched Internet, and private data networks.
As it builds its local networks, Teligent is combining the latest in point-to-multipoint radio technology with more traditional network technology, including point-to-point fixed wireless and broadband wireline, to access its customers. SmartWave(TM) technology is configured to handle both voice and data traffic with equal ease, ensuring that Teligent can handle today's huge volume of voice traffic and at the same time is prepared for the coming data traffic explosion.
Teligent's service offering is supported by a skilled communications workforce that has grown to more than 1,600 employees. Teligent teams now are deployed in 37 markets across the country, building Teligent's local communications networks.
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