Topic: ISPs, Costs and Charges
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Starbucks Marks First Store Opening in South America with Introduction of Single Origin Peruvian Coffee.
Peruvian coffee represents socially and environmentally beneficial partnership with Conservation International
LIMA, PERU; August 19, 2003 - Starbucks Coffee International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) today announced the opening of its first South American store in Ovalo Gutierrez of Miraflores, one of the most prominent business and restaurant districts in Lima, Per?.
Starbucks and Lasino S.A. signed a licensing agreement earlier this year to open stores in Per?. Lasino S.A is responsible for managing the operations in the market.
All 30 Million Verizon Customers Now Receiving Revamped, Easier-To-Understand Bills as Rollout is Expanded in August to Seven Additional States
August 21, 2003
NEW YORK - Verizon customers in seven additional states are receiving redesigned phone bills this month, completing the first phase of a massive 12-month program to make the monthly phone bill dramatically easier to read and understand for the company's 30 million residential and business customers across the country.
Lenel, Enterprise Air and Symbol Technologies Join Forces to Provide Advanced, Mobile Security Solution for Little League World Series.
Rochester, N.Y. - August 18, 2003 - Lenel Systems International, Inc. today announced that it has teamed with Enterprise Air and Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: SBL) to donate an advanced mobile security solution for the 2003 Little League Baseball World Series, which will be held August 15-24 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Lenel is a global leader in the development and delivery of integrated security systems. Enterprise Air is a leading manufacturer of mobile security software, and Symbol Technologies is a global leader in enterprise mobility solutions. Their collaborative effort will help further safeguard the annual youth sporting event by enabling security personnel to use wireless computing technologies to control access to restricted areas.
New Agiliti Service Enables More Efficient, ?Globally Connected? Remote and Mobile Workforces
ST. PAUL, MN ? August 18, 2003 ? Agiliti Inc., a leading managed IT services firm, announced today it has introduced a state-of-the-art service to enable its customers? employees to have secure, reliable access to the Internet and to their corporate network while traveling globally or working remotely. It also announced that XIOtech, a global data storage technology firm based in the Twin Cities, is its first customer for the service.
McDonald's Announces Largest Wi-Fi Launch to Date
In collaboration with Toshiba and Intel, more than 100 McDonald's Restaurants to Offer Toshiba SurfHere? High-Speed Wireless Access for Customers.
Chicago ? McDonald's today (August 12, 2003)announced the launch of high-speed wireless Internet access for customers in an anticipated 100 restaurants throughout the Chicagoland and Milwaukee areas, with more than 60 of those restaurants offering wireless services immediately. Additional locations will be completed by the end of September.
Verizon Local, Long-Distance Network Continues To Serve Customers During Blackout
Backup Power Kicks in to Keep Supplying Dial Tone, 9-1-1 To 20 Million Customers
NEW YORK - The Verizon local and long-distance network in the states affected by the massive electrical power outage continued to operate throughout the night and this morning.
More than 500 Verizon central switching offices serving the affected area continued to provide dial tone and 9-1-1 service to homes, businesses and pay phones when they automatically switched to backup power. These switching offices are in New York State, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Verizon serves some 20 million lines in the area.
ANDOVER, MA-- August 11, 2003--Enterasys Networks Inc. (NYSE: ETS), a global provider of Business Driven NetworksTM for enterprise customers, today announced a partnership with InMon Corporation, the leading provider of traffic management solutions for high-speed networks. This partnership brings together Enterasys? X-Pedition Series Routers with the InMon Traffic Server, providing customers with superior operational control over network traffic and increased security.
AUSTIN, TX. - August 6, 2003 - Wayport, the leading provider of Wi-Fi (802.11b) wireless and wired high-speed Internet access in more than 650 locations including 565 hotels, 13 airports and 75 San Francisco-San Jose area McDonald's, today announced a services and roaming agreement with SBC Communications Inc., the nation's leading DSL provider. The agreement includes Wayport services in support of SBC Wi-Fi hot spot deployment and provides SBC customers with access to Wayport's nationwide neutral-host high-speed network.
BROADBAND CENTRAL DOUBLES SIZE OF PLANNED BLUE ZONE DEPLOYMENT TO 22 STATES.
Company to focus resources on deploying Blue Zones
and Control Access Units in 22 states until early 2004
DRAPER, Utah - August 7, 2003 - Broadband Central, the largest provider of high-speed wireless Internet services in the western United States, today announced it has doubled the size of its planned deployment of Blue Zones to 22 states.
Broadband Central has added 11 new states to its list of states slated for Blue Zone deployment: Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio and Wyoming. The company had previously announced Blue Zone deployment in 11 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington.
IPWireless Mobile Broadband System Deployed for AtlasONE?s National Broadband Wireless Network in Malaysia
Malmesbury, UK. Aug. 7, 2003 ? As part of the US$180 million deal signed by AtlasONE and Thales on Friday, IPWireless? Mobile Broadband system has been selected by AtlasONE for its national broadband wireless network in Malaysia, IPWireless announced today. The announcement comes after successful trial services coordinated by IPWireless? strategic partner Thales, marking another commercial deployment for IPWireless.