SBC, New Edge Expand Agreement

New Edge Networks will now provide frame relay and ATM data services to all of SBC Ameritech's customers.

by Thor Olavsrud of internetnews.com [January 11, 2002]

SBC Ameritech Thursday contracted Vancouver, Wash.-based enhanced data and broadband communications service provider New Edge Networks to provision inter-LATA frame relay and ATM data services to its customers.

The companies did not disclose financial details of the multi-year agreement.

SBC and New Edge have had a similar agreement—one which covered SBC customers in Pacific Bell and Southwestern Bell territories—in place since 1996. The new deal expands the relationship to cover the five Midwestern states served by SBC.

"Our agreement with SBC represents a substantial new business opportunity for New Edge Networks in the SBC Ameritech region and builds on a long-standing relationship our two companies have," said Dan Moffat, president and chief executive of New Edge Networks.

The agreement allows SBC to act a single point of contact for ordering data communications services, minimizing the operational issues that stem from utilizing multiple carriers to install and maintain customers' wide area data networks.

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