Windstream has seen average revenue per user increase for business and high-speed Internet services, said the company’s CEO Jeff Gardner at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Leveraged Finance Conference yesterday. Business ARPU increased 5% and high-speed Internet ARPU increased 6% over the past...Learn More

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 30, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Windstream (Nasdaq:WIN) today announced it has formed Windstream Holdings, Inc., which will become a new publicly traded parent company of Windstream Corp. and its subsidiaries. The new company will trade on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange under...Learn More

This year’s Connect America Fund program aimed at helping to cover some of the costs of bringing broadband to areas that currently do not have broadband service garnered a considerably more positive response than a similar program did last year. Based on input Telecompetitor has...Learn More

LITTLE ROCK, AK – June 27, 2013 — Windstream (Nasdaq:WIN), a leading provider of advanced network communications, announced today during the Mitel Business Partner Conference in Hollywood, Fla., that it has entered into an agreement with Mitel to offer their leading edge MiVoice and MiCollab...Learn More

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – June 10, 2013 — Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a leading provider of advanced network communications, announced last week at the International Avaya Users Group (IAUG CONVERGE2013) in Orlando, Fla., that it is collaborating with Avaya to expand its managed Unified Communications (UC)...Learn More

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 3, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Windstream Hosted Solutions, one of the nation’s premier providers of enterprise-class managed hosted solutions, today announced plans to build a new enterprise-class data center in Charlotte, N.C. Design and construction have already started and will result...Learn More

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 16, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Each year, the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) makes available $400 million in funding through the Rural Health Care (RHC) program, to be used for telecommunications and Internet services for health care providers located in rural...Learn More

Windstream has been gradually transforming itself from a local phone company serving tier 2 and tier 3 markets to a nationwide carrier focused on business services. And according to Windstream CEO Jeff Gardner, the company’s optimal strategy in that market is to focus on customers...Learn More

CenturyLink, Frontier and Windstream made another attempt Friday to persuade the FCC to release Phase 1 Connect America Funds for broadband construction projects in rural areas that currently do not have broadband service. The carriers are now offering to match whatever funding the commission releases...Learn More

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Windstream (Nasdaq:WIN) announced today that the General Services Administration (GSA) of the U.S. Federal Government has awarded it a contract to provide voice, Internet and data services. The contract represents multi-million dollar potential revenue annually, covering...Learn More

As their traditional residential voice business dwindles, many Tier 2 (and Tier 3) telcos are aggressively pursuing the business and wholesale markets, as a couple of announcements today illustrate. CenturyLink launched a new ad campaign for the business market. And Windstream announced the nationwide expansion...Learn More

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 4, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — With this year’s E-Rate filing deadline rapidly approaching, Windstream (Nasdaq:WIN), a leading provider of advanced network communications, is urging all K-12 schools and libraries across the country to apply in order to leverage discounts on telecommunications,...Learn More