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Stanton Communications invested in private cable television in the Soviet Union and cellular communications service in Hong Kong. [5] Stanton was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Pacific Northwest Cellular, established in 1992. The company grew to become the United States' eighth-largest independent cellular company. [5]
Pac-West has over 20 creditors, many of which are a mix of large service providers and CLECs including; AT&T (NYSE: T), CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL), Frontier (Nasdaq: FTR), Telus (Toronto: T.TO), and Alpheus Communications. On September 9, 2013, TNCI Operating Company LLC completed the acquisition of Pac-West Telecomm Inc.
The pace of acquisition picked up in 2001 and 2002 with the purchases of Pacific Broadband and Unisphere Networks. [3] In 2004 Juniper made a $4 billion acquisition of network security company NetScreen Technologies. [4] Juniper revised NetScreen's channel program that year and used its reseller network to bring other products to market. [5]
The Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) is a telecommunications industry non-profit trade association representing wireline, wireless, Internet, and other information, communications, and technology companies across the forty nations that make up the Pacific Rim.
Jenny Yue-fon Yang [2] was born in the San Fernando Valley and raised in Chatsworth, Los Angeles.She is a second-generation Taiwanese-American. [1] Yang studied chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked in the laboratory of Jeffrey R. Long.
Southwestern Bell Corporation, which changed its name to SBC Communications in 1995, acquired Pacific Telesis in 1997, SNET in 1998, and Ameritech in 1999. In February 2005, SBC announced its plans to acquire former parent company AT&T Corp. for over $16 billion.
Beginning in 1993, US West Communications, a Bell Operating Company, began selling some of its telephone lines to Pacific Telecom. In 1993, Pacific Telecom announced it would acquire 45 exchanges serving 50,000 telephone lines in Colorado from US West. [2] The deal closed in February 1995, becoming a part of PTI's Eagle Telecommunications division.
After the Bell Systems breakup, Ginn joined Pacific Telephone in 1978 as vice president in Los Angeles, going on to serve as chairman and CEO of Pacific Telesis from 1988 until 1994. When he resigned, Ginn launched AirTouch Communications , an early pioneer in the cellular industry that went public in 1994 with an IPO of $10 billion.