XO Communications News

Wednesday, May 16th

• XO Communications Surpasses 10,000 Business VoIP Customers

  XO Communications today continued to demonstrate its leadership in providing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions for businesses, announcing that XOptions(R) Flex, its award-winning VoIP services bundle, now supports more than 10,000 business customers in more than fifty-five major metropolitan markets across the United States....

Friday, January 26th

• Web Hosting VoIP Firm, XO Communications, Reaches 80 Percent Annual Growth

  Web host, Internet and telecommunications services company, XO Communications, has reported that the amount of voice traffic carried across its nationwide IP network, exceeded 15 billion minutes in 2006....

Wednesday, January 24th

• XO Charts VoIP Progress

  XO Communications this week said its VoIP traffic grew 80% over the past year, exceeding 15 billion minutes in 2006.
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Tuesday, October 17th

• XO Holdings to Retain and Grow Core Businesses

  XO Holdings, Inc. today announced that it has determined that a continued focus on its core businesses is its most promising strategy for maximizing shareholder value at this time, rather than a sale of XO Communications, the Company’s national wireline telecommunications business....

Monday, October 9th

• XO Communications Named Best Wholesale VoIP Provider

  Today at the CompTel Plus Fall 2006 Convention & Expo, XO Communications announced it has received the 2006 Wholesale Carrier Excellence Award for best wholesale voice over IP (VoIP) service provider from ATLANTIC-ACM, a Boston-based telecommunications research consultancy....

• XO Communications Completes Next Generation Nationwide Inter-City Fiber Optic Network

  XO Communications today announced that it has completed its new next generation nationwide inter-city fiber optic network and is now carrying customer traffic across all segments. XO has also begun deploying additional capacity upgrades along major routes on the network in response to customer demand. The XO network represents one of the industry’s most advanced deployments of digital optical technology and allows XO to more than double network capacity and offer a broader range of higher-speed data transport services to content providers, enterprises and service providers....

• XO Communications Realigns Business Structure for Future Growth

  In order to drive greater agility in the execution of its growth strategy, XO Communications today announced the formation of two new business units, XO Business Services and XO Carrier Services, each of which will be led by its own president. The creation of lines of business strengthens the company’s focus around specific customer segments and highlights the company’s unique competitive advantages in serving business and wholesale customers as the telecommunications industry consolidates. ...

Thursday, August 31st

• XO Communications Brings Industry-Leading VoIP Services Bundle to Businesses in Tucson

  XO Communications today announced the launch of its industry-leading business-class Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services bundle, XOptions® Flex, in Tucson. Today, more than 5,000 businesses nationwide have deployed XOptions Flex and are taking advantage of the cost savings and flexibility of VoIP provided by XOptions Flex....

Monday, August 28th

• XO Communications Deploys Fixed Broadband Wireless in Nine Cities to Expand Metro Coverage and Reduce Network Access Costs

  XO Communications today announced its first significant market deployments of fixed broadband wireless technology that will broaden its ability to deliver business-class broadband solutions directly to businesses and help the company reduce local network costs....

Wednesday, August 9th

• XO Holdings Reports Second Quarter 2006 Results

  XO Holdings, Inc. today reported its second quarter 2006 financial and operational results. For the second quarter ended June 30, 2006, XO Holdings reported $354.3 million in revenue, $20.3 million in adjusted EBITDA2 and a net loss of $36.1 million. XO Holdings (XOH) operates two business units, XO Communications, LLC (XOC), its wireline business, and Nextlink Wireless, Inc. (Nextlink), its wireless business....

Monday, July 31st

• XO Communications Surpasses 5,000 XOptions Flex Business VoIP Customers

  XO Communications today announced that its award-winning, business-class Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services bundle, XOptions Flex, has surpassed the 5,000 customer milestone. Launched just fifteen months ago, XOptions Flex’s rapid adoption has firmly established it as one of the fastest growing VoIP solutions for businesses....

Monday, July 17th

• XO Communications Tops 3.8 Billion Minutes of VoIP Traffic in Second Quarter of 2006

  XO Communications today announced that it carried 3.89 billion minutes of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) traffic across its private nationwide IP network in the second quarter of 2006, a 34 percent increase over the previous quarter and a 140 percent increase over the second quarter of 2005. The increase was driven by greater deployment of XO VoIP solutions by businesses and service providers, demonstrating the increasing demand for delivering voice services over an all IP network environment....

Wednesday, June 21st

• XO Communications Offers 10 Steps to Implement VoIP Successfully

  XO Communications, a provider of business VoIP solutions, has come up with 10 steps for successful VoIP implementation. ...

Monday, April 17th

• XO Communications Announces Nationwide Availability of Enhancements to Industry-Leading Business VoIP Services Bundle

  XO Communications today announced the nationwide availability of new enhancements to XOptions Flex, its industry-leading voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services bundle, that enable medium-sized businesses to take advantage of the cost-savings and flexibility of VoIP without having to replace their existing phone systems. Today, more than 3,000 businesses nationwide have deployed XOptions Flex, and the new enhancements expand the market for XOptions Flex by extending its availability to businesses with up to 160 employees at each location....

Wednesday, March 15th

• XO Communications Expands Wholesale VoIP Solutions with New Voice Origination Service

  Today at Spring 2006 VON, XO Communications announced an expansion of its wholesale voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions, introducing a new IP voice origination service that offers service providers a scalable and cost-effective means for originating voice calls nationwide....