Choice One Communications
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| Choice One Communications | |
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Rochester, New York, USA |
| Key people | Thomas Casey, CEO |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Products | Telecommunications |
| Revenue | Unknown |
| Employees | Appr. 1500 |
| Slogan | When you compare, there's only one |
| Website | www.choiceonecom.com |
Choice One Communications is a Rochester, New York-based CLEC providing Telecommunications services to commercial entities. The company was founded in 1998 as an "alternative to the incumbent local phone carriers". As of 2005 the company operates in 12 states and 29 markets and claims over 100,000 customers. Mostly in the NE and upper mid-west, the company provides a variety of simple-to-complex local, long distance and internet services. They are known for a promotion called. Free, which provides free high-speed Internet service to small businesses.
In 2003, the company web site reports that they announced that the company was cash flow positive. Having gone bankrupt in late 2004, they completed a financial restructuring that took the company private, reduced debt to $205 million and secured $30 million in new financing.
In 2005 they became one of the first telephony carriers to introduce the concept of "Dynamic Bandwidth" as an official product. Dynamic Bandwidth works by transmitting voice and data over a T1 connection using ATM as the underlying protocol. The amount of available bandwidth for data "expands" by 64k for each voice line not in use. When a voice line goes off-hook, the bandwidth reserved for that voice line becomes solely available for use with that line until the call ends, when it becomes usable for data again. Using this concept, a T1 that would normally provide 768k of data and 12 voice lines can provide a full 1.536 Mbit/s connection when no voice lines are in use.
In early 2006, a merger was announced with CTC Communications and the two companies acquired Conversent Communications before announcing their new name on July 24, 2006: One Communications. [1]
