XO Communications Awarded Multi-Year Data and Voice Services Contract From Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars
11 Januar 2006 - 2:37PM
PR Newswire (US)
Sports Teams, Ice Centers to Receive Upgraded Communications
Solution, Cost Certainty DALLAS and RESTON, Va., Jan. 11
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XO Communications, Inc. (OTC:XOCM.OB)
(BULLETIN BOARD: XOCM.OB) today announced it has secured a
three-year agreement to provide voice and data services to the
Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars. Under terms of the agreement, XO
will deploy communications solutions for the Rangers at Ameriquest
Field in Arlington, for the Stars at their Frisco headquarters and
at three Dr Pepper StarCenters located across the Metroplex. As a
result, the combined entities will consolidate from four service
providers to one. "First and foremost, we were looking for a
partner that could address our near-term and future communications
requirements," said Casey Shilts, executive vice president, Hicks
Holdings. "We were most impressed with the quality of XO's service
offerings, which will deliver improved functionality and
performance over our current environment. At the same time, we
benefit from communications cost certainty with a budget that is
virtually unchanged." At Ameriquest Field, XO will give the Rangers
a 25 percent increase in voice capacity, while doubling available
data bandwidth. Stars headquarters will experience a similar
increase in data bandwidth. XO's award-winning VoIP solution,
XOptions Flex, will be installed at the three Dr Pepper
StarCenters. Because Flex works with the existing communications
infrastructure, there will not be a need to invest in new VoIP
equipment to benefit from Flex's dynamic bandwidth allocation
across a shared voice and data connection, producing a minimum of
three times the currently available bandwidth at those locations.
"Businesses throughout the Metroplex want four things from their
communications provider -- product, performance, predictability and
price," said James McLendon, XO Communications' general manager for
the Dallas market. "We look forward to delivering all four to the
Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars for the next three years -- and
beyond." About XO Communications XO Communications is a leading
provider of national and local telecommunications services to
businesses, large enterprises and telecommunications companies. XO
offers a complete portfolio of services, including local and long
distance voice, dedicated Internet access, private networking, data
transport, and Web hosting services as well as bundled voice and
Internet solutions. XO provides these services over an advanced,
national facilities-based IP network and serves more than 70
metropolitan markets across the United States. For more
information, visit http://www.xo.com/. DATASOURCE: XO
Communications, Inc. CONTACT: Chad Couser of XO Communications,
+1-703-547-2746, ; or Alan Gilbert of Crawford PR, +1-703-255-3835,
, for XO Communications Web site: http://www.xo.com/
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