5 Companies Win U.S. Telecom Contract |
| New York Times - Jun 1, 2007 |
Five companies — AT&T, Level 3 Communications, Qwest Communications, Sprint Nextel and Verizon — were awarded a federal telecommunications contract on Thursday that is worth up to $20 billion over 10 years.
The companies, winners of the so-called Networx Enterprise contract, must now compete with one another to win business from agencies looking to improve their voice, data and other telecom services.
It was the second telecom contract awarded by the General Services Administration in about two months.
In late March, Qwest, AT&T and Verizon were named winners of the much larger Networx Universal contract, the largest federal telecom contract ever awarded. That deal is potentially worth up to $48 billion over a decade.
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- Posted: 2007-06-01 09:57:22
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