Bij bizjournals.com is het opmerkelijke nieuws te vinden dat Dell, MS en Intel elk $10 miljoen investeren in een volledig onbekende telecommaatschappij: 2nd Century Communications uit Arlington. De industriegiganten helpen de telecommer om een nationaal netwerk op te zetten. Hier het fantastische nieuws: 2nd Century Communications heeft al 100 (honderd) klanten! Das nog eens een bedrijf waar je wel wat miljoentjes in wilt investeren.
And here's the kicker: The company has only about 100 customers to date. But CEO John Prisco isn't worried about that.
"We only [launched] in January," Prisco says. "We're in a position to expand geographically and carry out our plan to hit 48 cities by next year. ... We have terrific venture firms backing us."
Founded in Tampa, Fla., 2nd Century quietly has been building its operations and installing equipment at telecom switching stations around the country. With little fanfare, 2nd Century moved its headquarters to Arlington last month. About 40 employees work there now, with more than 100 expected to move in by year's end. The Tampa offices will maintain about 200 employees.
The young telecom company does a little bit of everything. It bundles a variety of services, including local and long-distance phone, high-speed Internet, Web applications, email and other applications. Bundling virtually every service a business might need and sending it over one high-speed pipe is a trend being pursued by plenty of local telecom players these days, from old guard phone companies to fiber and Internet firms.
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