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DAYDAY 0 22 Showshow Dailydaily Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Adelstein Seeks Round Two Applications for RUS Funding Published by Beka Publishing Á DAYDAY 0 22 ShowShow DailyDaily Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Adelstein seeks round two applications for RUS funding omparing building broadband networks to every corner of the United States to COMPTEL elects Cthe 1930’s effort of providing electricity to all parts of the country, the Rural Utilities new board members Service Administrator encouraged members embers of COMPTEL yesterday elected of COMPTEL to apply for the second round of 12 companies to serve on the COMPTEL federal stimulus funding. MBoard of Directors for the 2010-2012 The former Federal Communications Commis- term during the association’s annual membership sioner Jonathan S. Adelstein said, “I have a new meeting. Joining the 15 others who are currently job and a lot of money to give away.” serving their 2009-2011 terms, the newly elected Adelstein was appointed by President Barack board members include: Obama last July to the RUS position. And Adel- stein had plenty of praise for the President and his Small Member Category administration. • FastTrack Communications - Steven Dorf, CEO “We can finally do what we’ve been talking • Fiber Tower - Kurt van Wagenen, President about doing for a long, long time,” Adelstein said. and CEO “And we have the support of a White House, from • STS Telecom - Keith Kramer, Executive the top on down. From the Vice President and Vice President Jonathan Adelstein the staff, because they all believe, as we do, that (See COMPTEL Elects, page 5) bringing broadband to all parts of the country is vital to our economy and vital to the growth of business.” ATLANTIC-ACM names U.S. Long Haul Wholesale Awards He added that President Obama believes that broadband connecting all parts of the country, TLANTIC-ACM, a telecommunica- 2010 Conference & Expo at the Gaylord Opry- including sparsely populated rural areas, is neces- tions research consultancy and bench- land in Nashville. sary to jumpstart the nation’s economy, because A marking firm, awarded its 2010 ATLAN- The awards reflect the results of the 2010 in the long term they will create more opportuni- TIC-ACM Awards for U.S. Long Haul Whole- edition of ATLANTIC-ACM’s U.S. Long Haul ties for people in the rural areas and will create a sale Carrier Excellence during the keynote Wholesale Carrier Report Card – the industry’s better quality of life. session Monday at the COMPTEL PLUS Spring principal customer satisfaction benchmarking (See Adelstain, page 5) (See ATLANTIC-ACM, page 5) Beka Publishing, www.bekapublishing.com COMPTEL PLUS | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1 2EOEPQOEJ>KKPDÐ Ó =NAJKSKJA SSS SEJ@OPNA=I ?KI SDKHAO=HA :,1B$'LQGG 30 DAY 2 Floor Plan COMPANY BOOTH # 24/7 Fiber Network 915 321 Communications 500 360networks 709 Accedian Networks Inc. 412 ADVA Optical Networking, Inc. 300 GES Banner Alliance Group Services, Inc. 812 American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 422 Associated Network Partners, Inc. (ANPI) 523 BillSoft, Inc. 513 Broadvox 718 Brocade 800 BTI Systems 419 CABS Agent 721 Capacity Media 911 CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business 305 CenturyLink Wholesale Services 700 ChannelVision (Beka Publishing) 421 Charter Business 301 CHR Solutions, Inc. 804 Communications Data Group 527 Compliance Solutions, Inc. 418 COMPTEL 626 Core Tel Communications 310 CustomCall Data Systems, Inc. 519 CYAN 820 Dash Carrier Services 818 DCA Services, Inc. 613 DDR Broadband Networks 508 D-Link Systems, Inc. 312 DSET Corporation 521 Edison Carrier Solutions 808 Endstream Communications 512 Equinox Information Systems 515 FiberLight, LLC 306 GENBAND 611 GeoResults, Inc. 622 Glimmerglass 826 Hatteras Networks 313 Henkels & McCoy, Inc. 905 Homisco 608 IE - Dynetics 906 INDATELgroup 413 ENTRANCE Infinera Corporation 410 InterCall 707 InterMetro Communications, Inc. 507 International Telecoms Week (ITW) 913 Interstate FiberNet 609 Today’s Agenda Iowa Network Services 814 iQsim 819 IRIS Networks 723 KDL 612 7:30 – 9:30 a.m. 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. – Knology, Inc. 518 LightRiver Technologies, Inc. 619 Board of Directors meeting Business Track: “Overcoming Objections” LightSpeed Technologies 710 Mapcom Systems 424 (Hermitage D) Regulatory Track: “Hot Topics at FCC” MRV Communications, Inc. 821 Technology Track: “Next Gen Networks: Nokia Siemens Networks US, LLC 908 Nortel 520 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Making a Smooth Shift to Packet-based Transport” Omnitron Systems Technology, Inc. 406 Optelian 909 COMPTEL PLUS Deal Center Overture Networks 822 Performance Technologies 307 Sponsored by: Charter Business, 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. – Positron Fiber Systems 408 Power & Telephone Supply Co. 423 Interstate Fibernet, O1 Communications Business Track: “Cable and RLEC Entry into the Profitec Billing Services, Inc. 511 Qwest Communications 600 & Pac-West Telecomm CLEC Market” RAD Data Communications 802 RCN Metro Optical Networks 713 (Ryman Exhibit Hall B1) Regulatory Track: “Net Neutrality” Regulatory Back Office/GSAssociates 914 RNK Communications 411 Technology Track: “Wireless Backhaul” Sales Manage Solutions 425 Salestream Software 309 Member Lounge Sales Tax Associates, Inc. 525 Sandy Beaches Software 514 Sponsored by: Charter Business, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Sansay, Inc. 314 Intellifiber Networks COMPTEL PLUS Trade Expo in Ryman Exhibit Hall Sprint Nextel 400 SRP Telecom 407 (Ryman Exhibit Hall B1) Sunesys, LLC 420 Technologies Management, Inc. 900 6 to 8 p.m. – TelePacific Communications 401 TeleSphere Software 414 Sessions: Tuesday Night with Gabe Dixon TeliaSonera International Carrier 302 Telispire 807 Business Track in Tennessee B Sponsored by Arent Fox in Tennessee C Telsource Corporation 719 Thermo Credit, LLC 809 Regulatory Track in Tennessee D Transaction Clearing 620 TransNexus, Inc. 618 Technology Track in Tennessee A Wednesday’s Agenda UDP 606 US Signal 311 9 a.m. to noon – Regulatory Workshop Vertek Corporation 708 Windstream 901 Xtera Communications 526 ZONE Telecom 904 4 COMPTEL PLUS | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Beka Publishing, www.bekapublishing.com DAY 2 (Adelstein, continued from page 1) made in the process to make it easier to apply. “We’ve never had the resources to do this, but “We hope to target high caliber projects, so I (ATLANTIC-ACM, continued from page 1) we do today,” Adelstein pointed out. “Given the hope if you applied and didn’t get funded during study, based on more than 1,000 individual situation with the federal budget, this is a unique the first round, or if you didn’t apply during the carrier evaluations by their wholesale customers. opportunity for the rural areas.” first round, you will consider doing so during this Winners were: He said that during the first round of funding, second round,” he said. • AT&T: Brand, Network, Voice Product the RUS provided about 10 percent of the money “This has really been a key priority for our Quality, Data Product Quality it allocated to CLECS. Other applicants included Secretary [of Agriculture Tom] Vilsack and for • Qwest: Provisioning ILECS and wireless providers. President Obama to make sure that rural parts • Sprint: Provisioning In all, the RUS awarded more than $800 million of America have access … to the latest in broad- • XO: Sales Reps, Provisioning, Billing, in stimulus money to telecom companies. The band technology. Cutting-edge technology so Customer Service, Voice and Data Product Price, money is targeted for 22 broadband infrastructure that small businesses ... farmers and ranchers Data Quality projects in 18 states. can have up-to-date information,” Adelstein “For the second year in a row, we saw scores As the second round of funding takes place, emphasized. for product quality and operations improve Adelstein said even more money, $2.2. billion, is Lauding COMPTEL’s members for their while price satisfaction declined,” said ATLAN- available and will be awarded. The deadline to commitment to competition and innovation, he TIC-ACM president Fedor Smith. apply for the funds, which come in the form of said, “I hope you are as thrilled as we are about “The macroeconomic trends and pressures grants or loans, was extended until March 29. The this program. And we look forward to putting that impacted last year’s pricing scores remain administrator also said that some changes were broadband in all parts of the nation.” at play in this year’s scores,” Smith said. “Unlike last year, however, declines in price satisfaction were greater than satisfaction increases in other (COMPTEL Elects, continued from page 1) areas, signaling greater opportunities for price- Medium Member Category • EarthLink (New Edge Networks) - Penny H. based wholesalers to capture share.” • Alpheus Communications - Paul Hobby, Bewick, Vice President - External Affairs Boston-based ATLANTIC-ACM serves the Chairman and CEO • Sprint - Dan Dooley, President, Sprint telecommunications and information indus- • Hypercube - Ron Beaumont, Founder and CEO Wholesale Solutions tries. In addition to producing the industry’s • Lightyear Network Solutions - J. Sherman • tw telecom - Don Shepheard, Vice President, principal benchmarking, sizing and opportunity Henderson III, President and CEO Federal Regulatory Affairs and Policy studies, the company assists clients in evalu- • Zayo Group - Scott E. Beer, General Counsel ating telecommunications opportunities for • Zone Telecom - Dan Boynton, President During today’s board meeting, the successful investment, market entry and long- and CEO COMPTEL Board of Directors will elect the term planning. association’s new chairman, vice chairman, For information, visit ATLANTIC-ACM’s Web Large Member Category
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