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Overland Park, Kan. – March 31, 2010 – Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced that it has received the Frost & Sullivan 2010 North American Product Leadership Award in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Business Customers, outperforming rivals AT&T and Verizon.

According to Frost & Sullivan, “To enterprises, SLAs represent a reason to believe that the communications services provider stands behind its network performance claims. They represent a level of trust that is fueled by transparency into network performance; Sprint’s innovative approach to SLAs gives it an edge.”

The award also noted that Sprint “prides itself on its transparency, which plays a key role in its relationships with its customers, and the company extends that approach to prospective customers by offering a high degree of visibility into its network performance and SLAs.”

In addition to the industry-leading SLAs, Sprint Global MPLS more

Merger Will Combine Nation’s Largest IP Broadband Footprint with Complete Suite of Managed Services

SAN JOSE & COSTA MESA, Calif. — Covad Communications Company, a leading national provider of IP broadband services, and MegaPath Inc., a leading provider of managed IP data, voice and security services in North America, today announced an agreement to combine the operations of Covad and MegaPath.

Pending federal and state regulatory approvals, the transaction will create one of the largest managed service local exchange carriers (MSLEC) in the United States. The combined businesses will have the largest Ethernet, DSL and T1 footprint in North America and be the only MSLEC capable of providing a full range of Internet, voice, security and VPN services nationwide.

“This transaction brings together two industry leaders who will focus on expanding service offerings and distribution channels to further our leadership positions in the SMB, enterprise and wholesale more

Most Comprehensive Guarantee Offer among All Wireless Carriers Today

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Sprint (NYSE: S) is backing up its promise to be the best value in wireless, by announcing the only full money-back satisfaction guarantee on service plans that exists in the wireless industry today.

Beginning tomorrow, the Sprint Free Guarantee gives any customer opening a new line of service the chance to try Sprint for 30 days. If a customer isn’t completely satisfied, they can get reimbursed for the device purchase and activation fee, get the early termination fee waived, get a full refund for service plan monthly recurring charges incurred and get all associated taxes and Sprint surcharges associated with these charges waived. In addition, Sprint will waive the restocking fee for new customer exchanges as part of this policy.

“Sprint’s new guarantee policy is yet another effort by them to respond to the more

Plugfest Verifies 3GPP Femtocell Standard, the Key to Mass Market Deployments

MELBOURNE, Fla. — IntelliNet Technologies, a leading provider of wireless data offload solutions, announced today that it has successfully participated in the world’s first femtocell interoperability event. The plugfest was sponsored by the Femto Forum, an independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, in cooperation with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The plugfest had widespread vendor support with twenty-two companies participating, including major vendors, niche femtocell providers, and software and hardware component suppliers.

“IntelliNet had already developed proprietary femtocell gateway software that has been widely trialed and deployed by major network operators,” more

NEW YORK, March 31 — More than ever, government agencies are providing their workers with mobile communications tools such as smart phones, laptops and other wireless devices. A tailored managed mobility solution from Verizon helps agencies manage and secure those mobile assets.

The solution, Verizon’s Mobility Management for Government (MMG), helps agencies protect physical and intellectual assets while meeting the unique security mandates of federal agencies and other public institutions.

Verizon MMG, an expansion of Verizon’s comprehensive Managed Mobility portfolio for enterprises, is available immediately under the U.S. General Services Administration’s Washington Interagency Telecommunications System (WITS 3) contract and as an IT solution using the Alliant contract. The solution complies with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 and applicable Security Technical Implementation Guide security guidelines for federal agencies.

One federal agency already is taking advantage of the government mobility solution. The U.S. Geological Survey, a more

Optical Access Platform with IEEE 1613 Compliance Honored for Outstanding Innovation

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Mar 29, 2010 — ADTRAN(R), Inc. (ADTN 26.63, -0.03, -0.11%) , announced today that theOPTI-6100(R) Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP) with IEEE 1613 compliance has received a 2009 Smart Grid Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Intelligent Communications Partners (ICP).

Utility companies across the U.S. are moving to take advantage of the $4.5 billion in stimulus funding through the use of Smart Grid technologies. In direct response to customer requests, ADTRAN introduced a version of its industry-leading OPTI-6100 platform for utility substations that is IEEE 1613 compliant. The OPTI-6100 IEEE 1613-compliant subsystems are specially designed for Smart Grid-compliant substations and meet stringent industry standards for electromagnetic interference and do not disrupt network operation in the presence of electrical disturbances. This OPTI-6100 enables utility companies to extend the use of this optical more

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PHILADELPHIA, PA – March 30, 2010 – Alteva, North America’s largest enterprise hosted VoIP provider, today announced that it will participate in Chorus Communications’ 2010 webinar series, to run every Tuesday, starting March 23rd. The webinar series is designed to provide sub-agents with the knowledge base needed to sell the hottest products in the marketplace today, including hosted VoIP and unified communications solutions.

As a highly regarded thought leader in this industry, Alteva has been asked to participate in the following webinars:

• Tuesday, April 6th and Tuesday, April 13th at 10:00 AM eastern time
Topic: International VoIP Connectivity, SIP Trunking & Session Border Controls
Presenters: InPhonex with Alteva

International porting capabilities offer the ability for phone service providers to seamlessly connect their customers with other locations abroad without the common constraints of cost normally associated with this type of connection. more