List of All Telecom News
| Embarq Appoints Former Congressman to Board of Directors
26/06/2007
Regional telecom provider, Embarq Corp., announced yesterday that former U.S. Congressman, Richard A. Gephardt, would be joining its board of directors.Gephardt, 66, served as House leader for the Democrats from 1989 until his retirement in 2003. He is seen as a moderate economic populist, and is known for his pro-labour views.“As a highly regulated company, Embarq will benefit greatly by... |
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| Embarq Beats Estimates with $370-Million in Fourth-Quarter Profits
09/02/2008
Regional telecom carrier, Embarq Corp., reported fourth-quarter operating income of $370 million, or $1.23/share on Thursday, beating analysts’ average estimates of $1.10/share.Embarq’s overall revenue was $1.58 billion for the quarter, down 2.5% from $1.62 billion in the same period a year earlier, largely due to a ongoing decline in fixed-line telephone subscriptions. The carrier... |
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| Embarq Begins Testing Fixed-Mobile Convergence Services in Florida
24/08/2007
Regional telephone carrier, Embarq, is rolling out two new fixed-mobile convergence services; Find Me/Follow Me and Call Transfer.Find Me/Follow Me re-routes home phone calls to a customer’s mobile phone or another alternative number, causing both phones to ring simultaneously, and preventing missed calls.The live Call Transfer feature, meanwhile, lets customers instantly transfer calls... |
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| Embarq Begins to Stem Fixed-Line Telephone Losses
22/01/2007
As America’s fixed-line telephone market continues to deflate, the Chief Executive of Embarq is making some bold predictions that his company will be able to stem the ongoing tide of subscriber losses.Embarq president and CEO, Dan Hesse, acknowledges that competition from cable and wireless providers is a very real threat to traditional telephone companies, but says that it can be combated... |
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| Embarq Challenges Cable by Promoting DISH Satellite TV Service
19/09/2008
Regional U.S. telecom operator, Embarq Corp., is stepping up promotion of its resale partnership with EchoStar’s DISH Network service, in hopes of preventing a surging cable industry from poaching its customers.Encouraging its subscribers to sign-up for satellite TV service “knocks (Embarq’s) biggest competitor … plain of the field,” according to the company’s... |
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| Embarq Considers Selling Wireless Business, While Developing FMC Services
16/05/2008
Regional landline operator, Embarq Corp., will hold onto its wireless division for the time being but may sell it to another company next year, said the carrier’s Chief Financial Officer, Gene Betts, at a recent analyst conference in Washington, D.C.Embarq actively marketed cell phone services for over 18 months through a partnership with its former parent company, Sprint Nextel Corp. At... |
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| Embarq Keeps an Eye Out for Rural Telecom Acquisition Targets
12/06/2007
Regional telephone provider, Embarq Corp., is positioning itself to acquire smaller competitors in the months and years to come, as the telecommunications sector continues to consolidate.Buying up small rural phone carriers would help Embarq to slash costs and increase efficiency, said the company’s CEO, Daniel Hesse, in an interview late last week.“Today you have roughly 800 local... |
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| Embarq Launches 10-Mbps DSL Internet Service
18/01/2008
Embarq, a regional telecom provider formerly owned by Sprint Nextel, launched a 10-Mbps DSL offering across much of its footprint this week, after completing a four-month trial of the new service in Las Vegas, Nevada.Embarq has tweaked its broadband pricing scheme in order to accommodate the fastest tier, reducing the cost of its 3-Mbps and 5-Mbps DSL services from $44.95 and $54.95 to $39.95 and... |
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| Embarq Launches Converged Landline-Mobile Voicemail Feature
17/07/2006
After just a few months as an independent company, Embarq has announced its first fixed-mobile convergence service, in the form of an integrated voicemail system for wireless and fixed-line subscribers.This move represents Embarq`s desire to build a stronger presence in the converged communication market, while building customer loyalty though bundling. The company launched its own MVNO wireless... |
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| Embarq Launches Text-to-Voice SMS Messaging Service
27/11/2007
U.S. regional telephone carrier, Embarq, has started rolling out a new “text-to-landline” service capable of translating text messages, including acronyms, into voice messages.The new services has a two-way component, allowing message recipients to respond with a voice message or one of five pre-programmed text responses, including “yes,” “no,” and “where... |
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