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Visionary Rolls Out Wholesale Broadband Division
Visionary Communications has formed a wholesale DSL division, called Mammoth Networks.
(PRWEB) February 26, 2005 -- Visionary Communications has rolled out a wholesale broadband division to sell Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) to rural and regional Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The new division, known as Mammoth Networks, will allow a wide range of providers to use the private network to resell DSL to their broadband customers, or End Users.
Initially, Mammoth Networks covers six of Qwest's 14 state region, including Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The company will offer service in Oregon in June, and Arizona and New Mexico shortly after.
"We started Mammoth because someone had to," says Brian Worthen, President of Visionary Communications. "Everyone we talked to were in the same boat - they wanted a larger coverage area, but couldn't justify the cost."
Worthen says the company has created a network they would want - one devoid of term contracts and termination charges. Mammoth allows a provider to control the ordering process and direct the bills for the DSL loop to the End User. Typically, wholesale DSL providers require an ISP to order the loop on contract from the wholesaler, and invoice the ISP for the loop and network access. Mammoth charges the ISP for network access only, and provides the ISP flexibility on how the loop is paid for.
"A CLEC wanting to use Mammoth can order DSL at a wholesale level and have the loop billed to them. A small ISP can have the loop billed directly to the customer on their Qwest bill. We don't see a reason to control that," states Worthen.
More than 20 service providers have pursued agreements with Mammoth after hearing about the company's product through industry conversations. The company had signed agreements in January, a full month before going live.
"The impact this will have for rural ISPs is phenomenal," says Clay Cundy, Visionary's head of Business Development. "There are providers out there that turn down service to customers each week because they are 10 miles away in another state, and they don't have service there. Mammoth destroys those barriers."
Visionary, Mammoth's parent company, was started in a basement in Gillette, Wyoming in 1994. Visionary has grown through a series of mergers and acquisitions, and operates a network that spans from Seattle to Denver, delivering fixed wireless in eleven (11) communities and their own DSL collocations with Qwest in communities via their CLEC, InTTec Inc. The company resells Qwest's DSL in 376 communities in the Rocky Mountains.
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