TelePacific Communications

TelePacific Communications
Privately Held
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1998
Founder David Glickman
Headquarters 515 S. Flower St., Los Angeles 90071
United States
Area served
 California, Nevada, and Texas
Key people
 Dick Jalkut (CEO)
Products Voice services, colocation, voice over IP services (VoIP), data networking services, datacenters, local and long distance, business lines, MPLS, SIP services, cloud services
Services Voice, data, networking, mobile, cloud, colocation, data security
Website telepacific.com

TelePacific Communications (also known as U.S. TelePacific)[1] is a privately held facilities-based competitive local exchange carrier.[2] TelePacific Communications offers voice services, local and long distance phone services, Internet access, private networking, data colocation, voice over IP applications, integrated services, and other data services targeted to business customers primarily in California and Nevada.[3]

Company background

Founded in 1998 by David Glickman, TelePacific Communications is headquartered in Los Angeles. It operates from 40 regional offices in areas of California and Nevada, including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, and San Diego.

U.S. TelePacific Corp. operates as a subsidiary of U.S. TelePacific Holdings Corp. U.S. Currently, investors in the company are led by Clarity Partners and Investcorp.

TelePacific is currently headed by Dick Jalkut, former CEO and Chairman of Regional Bell Holding Company (RHC) NYNEX Telephone.[4] Other key executives include Timothy J. Medina, Chief Financial Officer, Josephine Young, Chief Information Officer, Rob Madore, Senior Vice President of Operations, Ken Bisnoff, Senior Vice President of Strategic Opportunities, Michael James, Senior Vice President of Customer Care, Russ Shipley, Senior Vice President of Wholesale and Network Services, and David Zahn, Vice President of Marketing . Notable members of the Board include Pete Wilson, former governor of California.

Services

TelePacific Communications offers a range of services to businesses and to other carriers on a wholesale basis. These services include:[5]

Recent acquisitions

TelePacific Communications expanded its markets, customer base, and service portfolio by acquiring a number of telecommunications companies.

In August 2010, it was announced that TelePacific purchased Sacramento-based 01 Communications Inc's retail customer business as well as its downtown Sacramento data center.[6] With the acquisition of 01 Communications, TelePacific gained 50 new employees, an additional 1,000 business customers, enhanced IP assets in California, as well as 01's data center. This purchase increased TelePacific's total footprint to 1.18 million access lines, serving about 38,000 business and wholesale customers in California and Nevada.[7]

In December 2010, TelePacific announced the purchase of Covad Wireless, also known as NextWeb, Inc., from MegaPath, allowing TelePacific to offer more services to their enterprise customers in California and Nevada.[8][9] With the acquisition of Covad Wireless, TelePacific was able to provide their customers with more choices of high-bandwidth data products, having symmetrical uploads, retain a maximum download speed of 100 Mbit/s, special event Internet access and new redundancy options.[10] More specifically, through this acquisition, "TelePacific now controls a WiMAX-featured wireless broadband network, a licensed microwave backhaul network, and a high bandwidth wireless network operating in licensed LMDS spectrum. The new network assets complement TelePacific's existing footprint and allows the company to broaden its product offerings.."[11]

TelePacific also announced their acquisition of Telekenex in May 2011. It was a definitive agreement to acquire all of the assets and customers of IXC, Inc and IXC Holdings, Inc, which did business as Telekenex. With the purchase of Telekenex, a business-grade Internet Service Provider (ISP) headquartered in San Francisco and Seattle, TelePacific Communications gained approximately 1,000 business customers and 122 employees.[12] In addition to TelePacific existing service portfolio, Telekenex brought with it a robust hosted PBX platform with nationwide voice capabilities, a PCI compliant MPLS backbone, a fiber network in the San-Francisco-Oakland Bay Area, providing support for complex network deployments and managed security services through a cloud-based firewall.[13]

TelePacific Communications announced plans to acquire Orange County Internet Xchange in May 2011 and finalized the acquisition in June 2011. This acquisition gave TelePacific an extra 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) SAS 70 Type II certified data center, located in Santa Ana, California.[14] TelePacific also announced plans to expand the OCiX facility to 18,000 square feet (1,700 m2) to accommodate current customers with more private meeting space and storage space. The acquisition also helped OCiX customers consolidate their voice and data services with one provider.[15]

TelePacific also announced plans to acquire Tel West in Texas in June 2011, which would expand TelePacific's footprint into Texas. Tel West is to bring TelePacific about 3,400 Small and Medium Business (SMB) customers across Texas, as well as a service portfolio of high speed Internet and other telecommunications services, including nationwide capabilities.[16] Enterprise customers and governments to be gained by TelePacific through this acquisition span across six major metropolitan areas in Texas, including Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth, and Corpus Christi.[17] Assets purchased from Tel West include nationwide PCI compliant MPLS/OC-192 backbone, cloud-based security services, managed network services, and a hosted PBX platform.[18]

Sales Organization

TelePacific distributes and sells its services through a mix of independent sales channels: midmarket (direct), wholesale, and indirect. The direct and indirect channels report to Ken Bisnoff. The wholesale channel reports to Russ Shipley. The top performing TelePacific indirect sales agencies in 2010 include Sandler Partners, World Telecom Group, PSI Network, Intelisys, Telecom Brokers, DataTel Solutions, BridgePoint Technologies, and Telarus.[19]

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ↑ Yahoo! Business Profiles Retrieved August 12, 2011
  2. ↑ "U.S. TelePacific Corporation" PrivCo Company Research. Retrieved August 12, 2011
  3. ↑ Bloomberg Businessweek Company Profiles Retrieved August 11, 2011
  4. ↑ "US TelePacific Corporation" NPRG's Service Provider Research. Retrieved August 12, 2011
  5. ↑ TelePacific Business Solutions TelePacific. Retrieved August 15, 2011
  6. ↑ Anderson, Mark (August 2, 2010) "01 Communications sells retail business to TelePacific" Sacramento Business Journal. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  7. ↑ Buckley, Sean (October 4, 2010) "TelePacific's 01 Communications acquisition strengthens its SMB service ties" Fierce Telecom. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
  8. ↑ Powell, Rob (December 23, 2010) "TelePacific Purchases Covad Wireless" TeleCom Ramblings. Retrieved August 12, 2011
  9. ↑ Buckley, Sean (April 4, 2011) "TelePacific finishes acquisition of Covad's wireless unit" Fierce Telecom. Retrieved August 12, 2011
  10. ↑ Azuri, Calvin (April 4, 2011) "TelePacific Communications Acquires Covad Wireless" Mobility Techzone. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  11. ↑ (April 4, 2011) "TelePacific Communications Completes Acquisition of Fixed Wireless Internet Service Provider Covad Wireless" The Street. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  12. ↑ (May 5, 2011) "TelePacific Communications to Acquire Telekenex" PR Newswire. Press Release. Retrieved August 12, 2011
  13. ↑ (May 5, 2011) "TelePacific Communications to Acquire Telekenex" Telecom Ramblings. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  14. ↑ (May 5, 2011) "TelePacific Communications to Acquire Orange County Internet Xchange" PR Newswire Press Release. Retrieved August 11, 2011
  15. ↑ Shanbhag, Jyothi (June 3, 2011) "TelePacific Communications Acquires Orange County Internet Xchange" Financial Tech Spotlight. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  16. ↑ Berndtson, Chad (June 28, 2011) "competitive local exchange carrier TelePacific Continues Acquisition Spree With Tel West" CRN.com. Retrieved August 12, 2011
  17. ↑ Speir, Marc (June 28, 2011) "TelePacific Communications to acquire Tel West" RCR Wireless Austin. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  18. ↑ Buckley, Sean (June 29, 2011) "TelePacific establishes Texas market presence via Tel West acquisition" Fierce Telecom. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  19. ↑ Henderson, Khali. "TelePacific Appreciates Its Telepartners". Channel Partners Online. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  20. ↑ (January 26, 2009) "Justin Chris-Tensen Voted Finalist for PHONE+ Channel Executive of the Year" Press Release. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  21. ↑ Baldwin, Dan (2009) "2009 TA 'Member's Choice' Award Winners in Alpha Order" Telecom Association. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  22. ↑ Baldwin, Dan (2009) "2009 TA 'Member's Choice' Award Winners in Alpha Order" Telecom Association. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  23. ↑ (February 8, 2011) "TelePacific Communications Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine's Thirteenth Annual Product of the Year Award" PR Newswire. Press Release. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  24. ↑ (May 10, 2011) "TelePacific Receives 2011 NGN Leadership Award from NGN Magazine" PR Newswire. Press Release. Retrieved August 16, 2011
  25. ↑ (2011) "2011 Inc. 5000 companies operating in the Telcommunications industry" Inc. Magazine. Retrieved August 24, 2011
  26. ↑ (2011) "Company Profile: TelePacific Communications" Inc. Magazine. Retrieved August 24, 2011

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