Phone+ Mag - AboveNet says it’s expanding into Denver with deployment of a new private fiber-optic metro network. The Mile High City becomes the company’s newest market for commercial business.

AboveNet says its fiber build-out in Denver reinforces its commitment to continued investment in advanced network facilities that broaden network assets. AboveNet’s Denver network will span 97 route miles of 432 and 216 fiber cables, delivering 23,000 fiber miles to support the mission critical business activities of Fortune 1000 companies and other large enterprises and organizations in the area.

Los Angeles, 8/2/2010 - TelePacific Communications, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the SMB customer base and network of O1 Communications (“O1”). TelePacific will also acquire a SAS 70 Type II certified data center located in Sacramento, California....

Customers will benefit from TelePacific’s network footprint in California as well as Nevada and wide area networking capabilities globally. The 18,500 square foot SAS-70 certified data center {server colocation } will allow TelePacific to offer additional managed services to existing and new customers which TelePacific will integrate into its MPLS network upon close.

ECS Telecom is a full service telecommunications services provider. ECS Telecom helps businesses find the best carrier services at the best prices. We strive to understand our client's critical business systems and applications and what services work best with those systems and applications not just sell you bandwidth.

(WHITE PLAINS, NY, July 29, 2010) -- AboveNet, Inc.a leading provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced its service expansion to the Miami market. This marks the company’s 16th US market and supports a continued focus on enhancing its global footprint to best support customers with large data transport needs.

“Miami is an established high-bandwidth center with a significant datacenter footprint, a leading international IP gateway and many financial, media and healthcare enterprises that require the type of high-bandwidth solutions delivered by AboveNet.,” commented Rajiv Datta, Chief Technology Officer of AboveNet. “In many respects, we believe that AboveNet’s service strength and focus are well-aligned to Miami’s market dynamics and customer needs.”

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - July 28, 2010) - Telx®, a leading interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, today announced a 13,500 square foot expansion of its premier data center footprint at 350 East Cermak Road, located in the heart of the Chicago Business District. This multi-suite expansion doubles the capacity of sellable cabinet equivalents for Telx in this premium facility. In addition to the space expansion, Telx will be able to support up to 300 watts per foot, providing customers with some of the highest-power density in the 350 Cermak facility. This latest data center expansion underscores demand within the financial, service provider and enterprise markets for premier colocation and interconnection services in the Chicago area.

With its lease at an end, Windstream has agreed to remain in Little Rock, Ark., and expand its headquarters' workforce by 200 jobs. Windstream, which received $5.5 million in cash incentives from the state, will stay the course with its acquisition strategy, said CEO Jeff Gardner.

SF Chronicle - Windstream Corp. announced Tuesday that it will keep its headquarters in Little Rock and add more than 200 positions, an important announcement for a city that lost a major telecommunications headquarters when Alltel Corp. was bought out by Verizon.

St. Petersburg, FL— Accel Networks announced today the expansion of its network coverage area across Canada. Through its relationship with TELUS, this expansion gives Accel the broadest fixed cellular broadband network in North America. Canadian customers can now take advantage of Accel's leading edge proprietary antenna technology and monitoring platforms which provides Accel's customers in the United States quality of service which is unmatched by any other wireless provider. Accel has already begun rolling out locations for existing U.S. customers that also have locations in Canada, but plans to establish a Canadian based reseller network will make Accel's services more readily available to all broadband users in the country by the end of 2010.

TMCnet - Officials with XO Communications (News - Alert) said that the initiative demonstrates the company’s strategy to expand its presence in existing markets in order to serve more enterprise customers with its IP-based communications and managed network solutions and exceptional customer experience.

Company officials said that by expanding the reach of its 19,000-mile nationwide network and establishing additional points of presence across the Seattle market, XO Communications is now able to serve thousands of new businesses and offer them a more competitive alternative for their local and nationwide communications and networking needs.

(CNN) -- In 1973, Martin Cooper changed the world, although he didn't know it yet.

Cooper and his team at Motorola, the communications company, created maybe the only thing that runs the lives of business professionals and teenagers alike -- the cell phone.

It was the size of a brick and wasn't commercially sold for another decade. But as Cooper demonstrated on a New York sidewalk, it worked.

The concept of cellular technology had already been created by Motorola's rival, AT&T, whose Bell Labs introduced a system allowing calls to be moved from one cell to another while remaining on the same channel. But AT&T was focusing this technology on the car phone.