query: what type of business is the company charter communications

pos: Charter Communications 21, 2017, it was reported that Charter was in talks to buy Cox Communications. On March 12, 2018, it was reported that Softbank had purchased 5% of Charter's stock from the open market. In June 2018, the New York Public Service Commission fined Charter $2 million for failing to meet obligations it agreed to as conditions of its acquisition of Time Warner Cable. Charter was required to expand broadband service to at least 145,000 unserved or underserved residential units over 4 years, with a minimum of 36,250 new units per-year. The company was accused of making false statements in its

pos: One Touch Make Ready best serve local needs, and enacted an ordinance that aligns with and supports federal policy," Nashville's filing supporting the motion said. On October 5, 2016, Charter Communications, a utility company that owns Time Warner Cable and does business in Louisville, filed a lawsuit against the city's Metro Government. In the lawsuit, Charter alleges that the city's OTMR ordinance violates Charter's fifth amendment rights, specifically over what is referred to as the "Taking's Clause." The takings clause states that "... private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation."" Charter's lawsuit also hinges on the argument that their

pos: Types of business entity in Russia be public and nonpublic, but not Closed or Open. Public Joint-stock is like an OAO (shares are publicly traded). Moreover, it is important to have the word "public" in the Name of the Company (ПAO, PAO). All companies which were ЗАО become OOO and have to correct the type of Company in their founding documents (charter). The statutory minimum charter capital is 5000 Russian minimum wage rates (in 2014 1 minimum wage rate is 5554 roubles) Open joint-stock company ( (abbreviated OAO) is a legal entity where shares may be publicly traded without the permission of other shareholders. An OAO

pos: NaviSite honored NaviSite with the Best Performance in Public Markets Award. 2006: HostReview recognized NaviSite with the Best Managed Hosting Service Award. 2006: NaviSite was chosen as the Best Dedicated Server Web Hosts in the business by Web Host Directory. 2005: NaviSite was ranked among the Area’s Fastest Growing Company based on two year revenue growth by The Boston Business Journal. 2001: NaviSite was chosen as the Best Hosts in the Managed Services category by Web Hosting Magazine. NaviSite Navisite, a Charter Communications Company, is a provider of hosting, application management and managed cloud services for enterprises, founded in the United

pos: Business marketing direct (inside or outside) sales force is often critical in the business market. When selling through distribution channels also, the number and type of sales forces can vary tremendously and success as a marketer is highly dependent on their success. One of the distinguishing features of the B2B sales cycle is it's comparably longer lead times compared to B2C. The result of this longer lead cycle affects the entire B2B marketing process. The purpose of B2B marketing communications is to support the organizations' sales effort and improve company profitability. B2B marketing communications tactics generally include advertising, public relations, direct mail,

pos: Charter Communications paid about $300 million for a controlling interest in Crown Media Holdings and acquired Cable South. In 1997, Charter and EarthLink joined forces to deliver high-speed Internet access through cable modems to Charter's customers in Los Angeles and Riverside, California. In 1998, Paul Allen bought a controlling interest. The company paid $2.8 billion to acquire Dallas-based cable company Marcus Cable. Charter Communications had 1 million customers in 1998. In November 1999, the company went public, trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange. At the time, it had 3.9 million customers. Charter completed more than 10 major acquisitions in 1999 when it:

pos: Robert Cohn York-based, tech-only hedge fund. He is a trustee of Robert Ballard’s Ocean Exploration Trust, and a Board Member Emeritus of Business Executives for National Security, a volunteer organization of business leaders that works with the Department of Defense. Cohn previously served on the boards of many companies, private and public. Some of these were Octel, Trimble Navigation (GPS navigation), Charter Communications (cable company), Right Hemisphere (3-D software, now part of SAP), Electronic Arts (video games), Ashford.com (high-end online retail), Digital Domain (special effects for commercials and feature films) and BlueLithium (internet advertising, now part of Yahoo!). He was a member

pos: Fannie Mae nature as a Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) that provided the 'implied guarantee' for their borrowing. The charter also limited their business activity to the mortgage market. In this regard, although they were a private company, they could not operate like a regular private company. Fannie Mae received no direct government funding or backing; Fannie Mae securities carried no actual explicit government guarantee of being repaid. This was clearly stated in the law that authorizes GSEs, on the securities themselves, and in many public communications issued by Fannie Mae. Neither the certificates nor payments of principal and interest on the certificates

pos: Charter Communications 21, 2017, it was reported that Charter was in talks to buy Cox Communications. On March 12, 2018, it was reported that Softbank had purchased 5% of Charter's stock from the open market. In June 2018, the New York Public Service Commission fined Charter $2 million for failing to meet obligations it agreed to as conditions of its acquisition of Time Warner Cable. Charter was required to expand broadband service to at least 145,000 unserved or underserved residential units over 4 years, with a minimum of 36,250 new units per-year. The company was accused of making false statements in its

pos: Suddenlink Communications the sixth largest pay tv service provider with 3.50 million subscribers. The predecessor to Suddenlink Communications was Cebridge Communications that was formed in September 2003 by its parent company Cequel III. Cequel III was formed in January 2002 by Jerry Kent, a former CEO for Charter Communications, Charter's co-founder Howard Wood and Dan Dergstein, a telecommunications lawyer. The company invested in Classic Communications on February 10, 2003 shortly after it emerged from bankruptcy. Classic Communications was founded in 1992 by Merritt Belisle and Steven Seach and the company was taken public on October 31, 1999 and filed for Chapter 11

pos: Utica, New York low-power television stations, such as WPNY-LP 11 (MyNetworkTV), also broadcast in the area. Cable television viewers are served by the Syracuse office of Charter Communications (doing business as Charter Spectrum), which offers a local news service and public-access channels. Dish Network and DirecTV provide satellite television customers with local broadcast channels. Utica's main daily newspaper is the "Observer-Dispatch"; the "Utica Phoenix", established in 2002, is an alternative. The city has 26 FM radio stations and nine AM stations. Major station owners in the area include Townsquare Media and Galaxy Communications. In addition to minor popular-culture references, "Slap Shot" (1977) was

pos: MV Kalia and three offers received. Sealift Incorporated protested the charter award with the Government Accounting Office (GAO), claiming that TransAtlantic Lines LLC understated its fuel-consumption costs. The GAO denied this protest, as well as an additional technical complaint about what business entity actually employed crewmembers. On January 24, 2007, Ocean Tankers Holdings Public Company Limited purchased the ship and renamed it "Kalia". The purchase made "Kalia" the company's fourth tanker. Ocean Tankers is a Cyprus-based ships-management and maintenance company, with a subsidiary company for each of its four ships. Its subsidiary company Kalia Maritime Co Ltd, is registered in Cyprus and

pos: PIER Systems that there were better ways of solving the communication problem that would really facilitate what needed to be done." - Gerald Baron, 1999 In 2003 PIER Systems, Inc. corporation name was changed to AudienceCentral, Inc. The name was changed back to PIER Systems, Inc. in 2007. PIER Systems PIER Systems, Inc. is a company that develops and supports an on-demand, web-based, communications software called The PIER System. Their product is designed for information management, crisis communications, business continuity, disaster recovery, public relations, mass notification, news monitoring, press release distribution and the management of documents, contacts, inquiries, and media. Their headquarters

pos: Communications Clinic upheld the complaint. Communications Clinic The Communications Clinic is an Irish communications company on Adelaide Road in Dublin, set up by former employees of Carr Communications. The company's work involves public relations, interview and media coaching. The company was set up by Terry Prone and Tom Savage. Many other staff from Carr joined the business, including Hilary Kenny, Anton Savage and Gerard Kenny. Tom Savage is also Chairman of the RTÉ Authority, having had an extensive career in public relations and media previously. Terry Prone is currently the chairperson of the company. In 2010, the company aimed to have over

pos: Communications Clinic Communications Clinic The Communications Clinic is an Irish communications company on Adelaide Road in Dublin, set up by former employees of Carr Communications. The company's work involves public relations, interview and media coaching. The company was set up by Terry Prone and Tom Savage. Many other staff from Carr joined the business, including Hilary Kenny, Anton Savage and Gerard Kenny. Tom Savage is also Chairman of the RTÉ Authority, having had an extensive career in public relations and media previously. Terry Prone is currently the chairperson of the company. In 2010, the company aimed to have over twenty employees. The

pos: DiGennaro Communications DiGennaro Communications DiGennaro Communications, also known as DGC, is an independent B2B and B2C public relations and communications company based in New York City. The company has been on Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing companies since 2011. DiGennaro Communications was founded in 2006 by its chief executive officer, Samantha DiGennaro, who previously ran the corporate communications team at J. Walter Thompson. In January 2012, DiGennaro Communications partnered with Eulogy, a London-based public relations firm, to broaden its global business. In 2012, DiGennaro Communications was awarded the bronze Stevie Award for Company of the Year in the

pos: DiGennaro Communications speaker circuit. DiGennaro Communications DiGennaro Communications, also known as DGC, is an independent B2B and B2C public relations and communications company based in New York City. The company has been on Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing companies since 2011. DiGennaro Communications was founded in 2006 by its chief executive officer, Samantha DiGennaro, who previously ran the corporate communications team at J. Walter Thompson. In January 2012, DiGennaro Communications partnered with Eulogy, a London-based public relations firm, to broaden its global business. In 2012, DiGennaro Communications was awarded the bronze Stevie Award for Company of the Year

neg: Charter Communications these stations due to a breakdown in negotiations. Charter Communications quickly replied that a resolution to the issue was not out of the question. The cable operator would have lost access to all of the stations owned by Belo. However, an agreement was reached days before the shutdown date. In 2011, "PCWorld" awarded Charter with several "fastest ISP"-type awards. Charter had upgraded its Internet speed tiers and gave most of its customers a free upgrade in speed twice during the 2011 business year. During the spring of 2008, Charter was honored with third place among companies with over 2,000 employees

neg: Marketing communications incompatible for the integration. Integrated marketing communication is the process of communicating an idea in order to attract customers using an array of tools. It is the process of sending out a message to a receiver (Communications, 2016). Depending on the company values and the type of product or service they offer, the most appropriate message to deliver will depend on the brand and consumer. To understand how integrated marketing communication can benefit a business, three main areas will be discussed. These areas being who the Sender is? Who is the Receiver? And what tools can the sender use in

neg: Charter Company million in equity. At one time, Tydings was the largest Charter stockholder outside of the Mason family. A Life Magazine article in 1970 suggested that the senator used his influence to assist Charter in business deals, but no laws were broken. In 1975, Charter purchased "Redbook" from Norton Simon Inc. In 1978, Charter acquired Downe Communications, the publisher of the "Ladies' Home Journal". Charter had had a controlling stake in Downe for several years prior. The year before, Downe had acquired Bartell, the publisher of such magazines as "Sport". Charter acknowledged that in 1978 and 1979, two of its oil

neg: Cookeville, Tennessee Cookeville is also the headquarters of the "Upper Cumberland Business Journal", a quarterly business newspaper serving the 14-county Upper Cumberland region. Cookeville is also home one broadcast television station, WCTE TV 22 (PBS). Charter Communications provides cable television service, and Dish Network provides satellite television. Using cable or satellite, television stations and network affiliates from the Nashville media market can be received. Local Internet service providers include Charter Communications, Frontier Communications, and Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative which has introduced gigabit broadband internet service in Cookeville. Cookeville is also served by thirteen FM and three AM radio stations. Tennessee Tech University's

neg: Wave Broadband Wave Broadband Wave Broadband (stylized as wave) is an American provider of residential, business, and enterprise class cable TV, broadband Internet, and telephone services to around 455,000 customers in Washington, Oregon, and California. Wave provides services via their own fiber-optic network and has approximately 1,300+ employees. The company was founded by its current CEO, Steve Weed, in 2003, by purchasing cable systems owned by Northland Communications, Cedar Communications, and Charter Communications in Washington and Oregon. It was expanded by acquiring other, some distressed, cable, telecommunications, and broadband companies. On May 22, 2017 it was announced that Wave was to be

neg: Charter Communications Charter Communications Charter Communications, Inc. is an American telecommunications company that offers its services to consumers and businesses under the branding of Spectrum. Providing services to over 26 million customers in 41 states, it is the second-largest cable operator in the United States by subscribers, just behind Comcast, and third largest pay TV operator behind Comcast and AT&T U-verse/DirecTV. It is the fifth largest telephone provider based upon residential subscriber line count. In late 2012, with the naming of longtime Cablevision executive Thomas Rutledge as their CEO, the company relocated its corporate headquarters from St. Louis, Missouri, to Stamford, Connecticut,

neg: Advance Publications private company in the New York area in 2012. In addition to holding publishing and communication assets, Advance serves as the holding company for the family's 31% stake in cable entertainment company Discovery Inc. Advance also owns a 13% stake in Charter Communications, which it received when Bright House Networks merged with Charter. In August 2018, Advance/Newhouse ("A/N") notified Charter Communications that it intends to establish a credit facility collateralized by a portion of Advance/Newhouse Common Units in Charter Communications Holdings, LLC. That same month, Condé Nast CEO announced his five-year strategy to generate $600 million in new revenue from

neg: Wildix Wildix Wildix is a global company operating in the sphere of telecommunications and specializing in Voice over IP (VoIP) products. The company creates and develops Unified Communications and CEBP (Communication-Enabled Business Process) solutions. Wildix creates and develops software based IP-telephony solutions for business communications that bring together presence information, audio and video calls, Instant Messaging, conferences, online chat, fax and SMS sending and desktop sharing. All the users belonging to the same corporate network can monitor the activity status of their colleagues and contact each other using a single tool for any type of communication accessible via the web (CTI

neg: Charter Company 1992, the Charter Company was renamed Spelling Entertainment Group, Inc. and updated its NYSE ticker symbol from "CHR" to "SP." Viacom purchased the remainder of Spelling Entertainment it did not own in 1999, effectively subsuming the final part of Charter Company into its larger corporate structure. Current-day American cable company Charter Communications is completely unrelated to Charter Company. Charter Company The Charter Company of Jacksonville, Florida was a conglomerate with more than 180 subsidiaries that was in the Fortune 500 for 11 years beginning in 1974 and ranked 61st in 1984. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in late 1984,

neg: Downe Communications circulation department had completed the development of its new computer system that stored the names and addresses of customers on magnetic tape. This new fulfillment system gave rise to the idea for a new business, with six Look employees looking for their first client. Publisher Edward Downe, Jr. agreed to not only be the company’s first client, but also its owner – if the company was named after him. Thus, on April 1, 1972, Downe Computer Services opened with 172 employees and one client. In 1977, the Charter Company in Jacksonville, Florida, started buying Downe Communications’ stock. Downe sold his

neg: Charter Communications all subscribers with an internet and television bundle. On August 28, 2017, Charter agreed to a $225,000 settlement in the state of Missouri over violations of telemarketing and No-call list laws. Charter Communications Charter Communications, Inc. is an American telecommunications company that offers its services to consumers and businesses under the branding of Spectrum. Providing services to over 26 million customers in 41 states, it is the second-largest cable operator in the United States by subscribers, just behind Comcast, and third largest pay TV operator behind Comcast and AT&T U-verse/DirecTV. It is the fifth largest telephone provider based upon residential

neg: Types of business entity in Russia can distribute its shares to an unlimited number of shareholders and sell them without limitations. The statutory minimum charter capital is 100,000 Russian roubles. Closed joint-stock company ( (abbreviated ZAO) is a legal entity whose shares are distributed among a limited number of shareholders - maximum 50. The statutory minimum charter capital is 10,000 Russian roubles. In Russia, a JSC can be completely or partially owned by the federal government. Such JSCs are different from another type of state-controlled company, the unitary enterprise. This is a commercial organization that operates state-owned assets. State-owned JSCs do not own or operate any

neg: Downe Communications controlling interest in the company to Charter for approximately $9 million in 1978. The company name was changed to Charter Data Services (CDS). Downe Communications Downe Communications was a publishing company founded by Edward Downe, Jr. that produced several popular magazines and provided subscription fulfillment services from 1967 to 1978. Downe was a trained journalist who worked at newspapers before becoming a magazine editor. In 1966, Downe purchased Family Magazine, a newspaper insert similar to Parade Magazine. He founded Downe Communications the following year. The company acquired the Ladies' Home Journal and The American Home in 1968 from Curtis Publishing

neg: NaviSite NaviSite Navisite, a Charter Communications Company, is a provider of hosting, application management and managed cloud services for enterprises, founded in the United States in 1996. Navisite provides application services, enterprise hosting, and managed cloud services for outsourcing IT infrastructure. The company is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts and has its sales offices, network operating centers, and 10 data centers in the US, UK, and India. The company has partnered with Microsoft, Intel, and Sun Microsystems. Their managed services include hosting and management of computing infrastructure, full lifecycle management for various business application suites including Microsoft SQL, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, PeopleSoft,

neg: Robert Marcus Cable’s derivation from Time Warner and its shift to a publicly traded company. Marcus also worked as President, Senior Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions, Acting Chief Financial Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Head of Business Strategy Development and Treasurer, Senior VP of Content Businesses, Executive VP of Business Development and VP of Mergers and Acquisitions. In 2014, Marcus was the CEO and Chairman of Time Warner Cable until the company was purchased by Charter Communications in May 2016. In October 2016, the United States Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee mistakenly announced that Marcus was being called to

neg: Rogers Telecom accounts formerly served by Rogers. Rogers Telecom Rogers Telecom Inc. is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications. It is a Canadian company based in Toronto that focuses on integrated communications as a provider of data, e-business and voice services to business and households. It used to be known as Sprint Canada Inc., pursuant to a 1993 branding agreement between parent Call-Net Enterprises Inc. with what is now Sprint Nextel Corporation. In 1998, Call-Net acquired long-distance service and data-circuit provider Fonorola of Montreal for about $1.8 billion and merged it into Sprint Canada. On May 11, 2005, Rogers Communications Inc. and Call-Net

neg: Rogers Telecom Rogers Telecom Rogers Telecom Inc. is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications. It is a Canadian company based in Toronto that focuses on integrated communications as a provider of data, e-business and voice services to business and households. It used to be known as Sprint Canada Inc., pursuant to a 1993 branding agreement between parent Call-Net Enterprises Inc. with what is now Sprint Nextel Corporation. In 1998, Call-Net acquired long-distance service and data-circuit provider Fonorola of Montreal for about $1.8 billion and merged it into Sprint Canada. On May 11, 2005, Rogers Communications Inc. and Call-Net jointly announced that they entered

neg: Charter Communications to the Commission and its customers." Within 60 days, Charter was to submit a plan to divest and migrate its New York state cable operations (which serve around 2 million customers) to new owners. Charter CEO Tom Rutledge has threatened legal action against the Commission. The company was later granted an extension of its deadline to February 11, 2019. Charter Communications offers service to an estimated 25 million people in 41 states with significant coverage in 48 states. In November 2013, the company announced the re-branding of its residential services to Charter Spectrum which encompass an upgrade to an all-digital

neg: SAGEMCOM SAGEMCOM SAGEMCOM is a French communications company based in Rueil-Malmaison. The company is split into four organisational divisions: "Broadband", "Documents", "Digital" and "Energy & Telecom". Sagem Communication was the original name for what is now SAGEMCOM (Although still called "Sagem Communication" at times). It was part of the SAGEM, a major French company involved in defence electronics, consumer electronics and communication systems. In 2005, SAGEM and SNECMA merged to form SAFRAN. In 2008, the SAGEM group spun off its communications and mobile telephony businesses (known simply as: Sagem Mobile) to focus on core company values. The mobile phone business was

neg: Peoria Charter Coach Company Valley Family Business of the Year award. In 2003, it received an honorable mention distinction for Better Business Bureau's International Torch Award for marketplace ethics, a competition in which there were 1,500 contestants. In 2012, it received a Department of Defense safety certification from Trailways. Peoria Charter Coach Company Peoria Charter Coach Company is a family-owned bus company based in Peoria, Illinois, which provides charter bus services, custom group tours, and transportation from several universities in Illinois to Chicago suburbs and airports. It is a contract charter bus service provider for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Peoria Charter Coach

neg: CDS Global their customers on magnetic tape. Two months later, when Look ceased publication, six employees took this new fulfillment service to Edward Downe, Jr., publisher of Ladies Home Journal and The American Home. He agreed to be their first client, and owner, opening Downe Computer Services April 1, 1972, with 172 employees. In 1977, the Charter Company in Jacksonville, Florida, bought outDowne Communications’ stock and renamed the company Charter Data Services (CDS). Hearst Corporation acquired two Charter Company properties in 1982, "Redbook" and CDS, which they rechristened Communications Data Services and then, in 2007, CDS Global. The number of magazine titles

neg: Galavisión Customers (although it is a Subsidiary of U-Verse's parent company, AT&T) as this was done in a different contract before AT&T acquired DirecTV. All of Univision's networks, including Galavisión, were returned to the U-verse lineup on March 24, 2016 after finalizing a carriage deal. On January 27, 2017, Charter Spectrum (along with Time Warner Cable and Bright House, the latter merged with Charter Communications on 2016) faced another dispute with Univision, warning Charter Communications that Galavision and its sister channels could be removed from Charter by January 31, 2017. Prior to then, Univision sued Charter over pay carriage rates at

neg: Steven Myers as the Chairman of the National Security Membership Committee and was on the Board of Directors for the Pacific Council on International Policy. Steven is the former Chairman of the Orange County Homeland Security Advisory Council and currently serves on the board of the publicly listed company Caladrius. As an Airline Transport Pilot, Steven has more than 6,000 hours of flight time and twelve jet type ratings. Between 1994 and 2007, his jet management business operated charter flights worldwide. Steve's private equity investment company, Dolphin Capital Holdings, invests in companies with business strategies such as applied materials development, stem-cell therapeutics

neg: Charter Communications sell cable systems serving approximately 43,000 customers in Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah to Orange Broadband Holding Company (since renamed Baja Broadband). Charter also sold cable systems in West Virginia and Virginia to Cebridge Connections (now known as Suddenlink Communications) and cable systems in Kentucky and Illinois to New Wave Communications. On October 14, 2008, the "Fairmont Sentinel" reported that Charter was selling parts of their system to Midcontinent Communications, including Charter's offices in Bemidji and International Falls, Minnesota. Starting February 1, 2009, Midcontinent took over some of Charter's cable system in Minnesota including Balaton, Bemidji, Canby, Ely, Fairmont,

neg: Bresnan Communications Charter Communications' umbrella. Bresnan re-entered the cable business in April 2002, with the $735 million purchase of former AT&T Broadband Rocky Mountain systems from Comcast. The acquisition included some 300,000 subscribers in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. Cablevision acquired Bresnan on June 13, 2010 for $1.37 billion and rebranded the systems as Optimum West. In February 2013, Charter Communications agreed to buy the former Bresnan systems for $1.625 billion. Bresnan Communications Bresnan Communications was an American cable television provider formed by William Bresnan in 1984. It originally operated cable systems on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Over the next fourteen years, its

neg: Casiano Communications Casiano Communications Casiano Communications Inc. (CCI) was founded in 1973, by Manuel A. Casiano, who died on May 19, 2017 at the age of 86. Casiano Communications published a modest business and financial newsletter on Puerto Rico which evolved into what is now "Caribbean Business". Recognizing the unfilled niche that an area business publication would fill, Mr. Casiano launched the newsletter that would later evolve into what is now "Caribbean Business" newspaper. For forty-three years, it had been the recognized Business Authority in Puerto Rico and the region. It was published weekly in English, and its in-depth news and analysis

neg: Unhaggle Canada and the only business from the Greater Toronto Area to be invited to the International Startup Festival in Montreal to present to investors and industry professionals. On April 17, 2013, it won an award in the TiEQuest business competition, earning first place. Later in June, the company won the StartMeUp Ryerson’s Slaight Communications Business Plan Competition. Unhaggle Unhaggle is a Canadian automotive buying, pricing, and data company, operating a live online marketplace for new cars. The company was founded in 2011 by Andrew Tai, Radek Garbowski, and Neal Shah. Through Unhaggle, car buyers can view what others paid for

neg: Consolidated Communications Consolidated Communications. Consolidated Communications Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc., doing business as Consolidated Communications, is a broadband and business communications provider headquartered in Mattoon, Illinois. The company provides data, internet, voice, managed and hosted, cloud and IT services to business customers, and internet, TV, phone and home security services to residential customers. With 36,000 fiber route miles, it is a top ten fiber provider in the U.S., serving customers in 23 states. Consolidated Communications began trading on the NASDAQ under ticker symbol CNSL in 2005. Consolidated Communications was founded as the Mattoon Telephone Company in 1894 by Dr. Iverson A. Lumpkin

neg: Charter Communications in Charter as well as a small minority interest in Time Warner Cable were spun off as a separate holding company named Liberty Broadband Corporation, which as of early 2015 was 47.1% controlled by Malone. On January 13, 2014, Charter Communications said it was interested in buying its larger rival Time Warner Cable. After three previous attempts to buy and merge with the company, all of which failed, Charter's chief executive officer Thomas Rutledge wrote in an open letter to Time Warner Cable's chief executive officer Robert Marcus stating, "I believe we have a significant opportunity to put our companies

neg: Switch Communications, Inc. and was previously a venture capital investor at Telesoft and a corporate and securities attorney. Firespotter Labs, a tech incubator, launched several products including: In 2014, the company rebranded as Switch Communications, Inc. upon the launch of their new product, a business phone system called Switch.co. The company won TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 with their product UberConference. They were also voted as Best Place to Work by SF Business Times, and awarded silver winner in The American Business Awards Telecommunications Company of the Year. Switch Communications, Inc. Switch Communications Inc. is a privately held company in San Francisco, California. The company,

neg: Attempted purchase of Time Warner Cable by Comcast On April 24, 2015, Comcast officially announced that it had called off the merger. Following the abandonment of the deal, it was reported that a TWC financial advisor had been in talks with representatives from Cox Communications regarding a merger; however, a Cox representative denied that they were exploring a sale, and that the company would "continue to explore any potential growth opportunities that align with our business objectives." On May 26, 2015, Charter Communications announced a $78.7 billion deal to acquire TWC, along with a $10.1 billion deal to acquire Bright House Networks. Attempted purchase of Time Warner Cable

neg: Charter Communications announced an agreement to acquire some former Bresnan Communications systems from Cablevision in a transaction worth US$1.63 billion. The deal brought Charter cable systems to 375,000 customers in Colorado's mountains and Western Slope, as well as in Utah, Wyoming and Montana. Approximately one month later, on March 19, 2013, Charter announced that Liberty Media, a company controlled by former TCI CEO John C. Malone, would be acquiring a 27.3% ownership interest in the company, making it the company's largest single shareholder, largely through the purchase of interests held by investment funds following Charter's 2009 restructuring. In November 2014, Liberty's holdings

neg: Miller Freeman, Inc. boom was nothing less than electrifying. I had what I would call unbridled opportunism there. That means going into markets, not being constrained and jumping on opportunities." Miller Freeman, Inc. Miller Freeman, Inc., was a San Francisco-based publisher of trade books and business magazines, as well as a manager of trade and industry expositions. It was an innovative force in business technology and communications in the 1990s. The company name is owned by United Business Media, but it no longer exists as an independent company. The company was founded in 1902 by Miller Freeman, a fishing industry magnate, Republican party

neg: Spectrum (cable service) Spectrum (cable service) Spectrum (formerly Charter Spectrum) is a brand of Charter Communications which was launched in 2014 and used to market consumer cable television, Internet, and telephone provided by the company, and formerly provided by Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, which Charter Communications acquired in May 2016. Spectrum TV offers cable television service in three tiers: Spectrum TV Choice: allows a choice of 10 channels to create a custom channel lineup and includes local broadcast channels. Spectrum TV Stream: offers 25 channels including local news and live sports. No Spectrum equipment is required for TV Choice or

neg: Consolidated Communications Consolidated Communications Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc., doing business as Consolidated Communications, is a broadband and business communications provider headquartered in Mattoon, Illinois. The company provides data, internet, voice, managed and hosted, cloud and IT services to business customers, and internet, TV, phone and home security services to residential customers. With 36,000 fiber route miles, it is a top ten fiber provider in the U.S., serving customers in 23 states. Consolidated Communications began trading on the NASDAQ under ticker symbol CNSL in 2005. Consolidated Communications was founded as the Mattoon Telephone Company in 1894 by Dr. Iverson A. Lumpkin in Mattoon,

neg: Charter Communications although many operations still remain based out of St. Louis. On May 18, 2016, Charter completed its acquisition of Time Warner Cable and its sister company Bright House Networks, making it the third-largest pay television service in the United States. Charter ranked No. 74 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. Charter Communications was founded in 1993 by Barry Babcock, Jerald Kent and Howard Wood, who had been former executives at Cencom Cable Television in St. Louis, Missouri. It was also incorporated in the state of Missouri in 1993. In 1995, Charter

neg: Charter Communications that Charter Communications redirected error pages and Windows Live Search results to a Charter search page without notifying customers. Users may opt out of redirection by clicking a link from the Charter search page; however, the opt-out link saves a cookie on the customer's computer, so deleting cookies will require the user to opt out again. It was reported that on January 21, 2008, during a routine sweep of inactive accounts, Charter accidentally and irretrievably deleted the email accounts of approximately 14,000 customers. The company since decided to give a $150 account credit to each affected user. In May 2008,

neg: Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment the cable systems, which were spun-off into a separate company in 2009. That unit would eventually become part of Charter Communications. In 2011, MTV Networks changed its name to Viacom Media Networks. The networks that were a part of Warner-Amex are owned by numerous parties. The pay-per-view unit remained under the ownership of Warner Cable (which became Time Warner Cable after the merger of their parent company Warner Communications and publisher Time, Inc., later Time Warner Cable was acquired by Charter Communications in May 2016) and has undergone numerous transformations before its current incarnations as iN DEMAND and the differing

neg: Spectrum (cable service) mobile data, and requires a Spectrum internet subscription. Spectrum (cable service) Spectrum (formerly Charter Spectrum) is a brand of Charter Communications which was launched in 2014 and used to market consumer cable television, Internet, and telephone provided by the company, and formerly provided by Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, which Charter Communications acquired in May 2016. Spectrum TV offers cable television service in three tiers: Spectrum TV Choice: allows a choice of 10 channels to create a custom channel lineup and includes local broadcast channels. Spectrum TV Stream: offers 25 channels including local news and live sports. No

neg: Types of business entity in Russia of shares, cost of shares, the order for settling payments and the rights and responsibilities of the founders. This agreement then becomes the organization charter, which contains information on the name of the company, the locations of offices, the type of company (OAO or ZAO), as well as other specific information on shares, capital, and so on. The company shares allotted upon founding the company must be fully paid within a year from the company's foundation, unless a shorter period is required by the founding contract. However, at least half of the shares must be paid within three months, starting

neg: Lincoln Fillmore Utah Lincoln got a degree from the University of Utah in Mass Communications. He has spent his professional career working in education as a teacher, principal, and as a school business manager. He is the president of the company Charter Solutions. Senator Fillmore serves is the Senator of district 10 in Utah. Before being appointed to the Senate in 2016, he served as a county and state delegate for the Republican Party. He also has been a precinct, legislative, and regional chair for the party. Senator Fillmore is currently up for reelection because he was appointed to fill the last

neg: Joint-stock company Royal Charter or Act of Parliament. A special type of corporation is a corporation sole, which is an office held by an individual natural person (the incumbent), but which has a continuing legal entity separate from that person. Several types of conventional corporations exist in the United States. Generically, any business entity that is recognized as distinct from the people who own it (i.e., is not a sole proprietorship or a partnership) is a corporation. This generic label includes entities that are known by such legal labels as ‘association’, ‘organization’ and ‘limited liability company’, as well as corporations proper. Only

neg: Charter Communications operator in the country. In addition to the 1.4 million divested subscribers, Comcast also agreed to swap 1.6 million subscribers with Charter in an even, tax-efficient exchange whose intent is to improve the geographic spread of both companies. In a third part of the agreement, Comcast would spin off 2.5 million subscribers into a new publicly traded company in which Charter would hold a 33% stake – with an option to eventually own the whole company – and former Time Warner Cable shareholders would hold a 67% stake. In late March 2015, Charter announced plans to purchase Bright House Networks

neg: Macfadden Communications Group 1998, the conglomerate's line of youth music publications was sold off to Primedia; the rest were bought by Dorchester Media in 2004. The trade magazines "Chief Executive" and "Discount Merchandiser", as well as the company's stake in American Media, remained a separate company. American Media was sold in 1999 to the investment group Evercore Partners. The Macfadden trade titles were sold to VNU the same year. The executives of Macfadden Business Communications started a new company using the Macfadden name. It is a publisher of business-to-business magazines. Macfadden Communications Group Macfadden Communications Group is a publisher of business magazines. It

neg: Federated Wireless Federated Wireless Federated Wireless is an American-based wireless communications company headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia. The company is "commercializing CBRS spectrum for 4G and 5G wireless systems". Federated was founded in 2012 by Jeffrey H. Reed, Charles Clancy, Robert McGwier, and Joseph Mitola, the four of whom subsequently co-applied for a number of patents relating to the operation of shared spectrum for wireless networks. The company was created to develop technology to enable the operation of Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), and is "backed by communications industry stalwarts" such as Charter Communications, American Tower Corporation, and Arris. Iyad Tarazi, who

neg: Spectrum News Ohio market. Louisville, Lexington, Northern Kentucky and several other Kentucky cable markets were once served by legacy Insight Communications systems until the company was acquired by Time Warner Cable in 2012, and are now a part of Spectrum and Charter Communications. Spectrum News 1 is the only Spectrum News network not founded under Time Warner Cable or Charter ownership. The network dated back to the late 2000s as cn<nowiki>|</nowiki>2 (standing for "Community Network", and its main standard definition cable channel 2 slot) under Insight Communications ownership, and aired limited news updates, along with rolling weather updates. The network's service has

neg: General aviation in the United Kingdom by the customer, providing a more flexible service than airline travel. Air taxi operations offer charter services for third parties, and business or corporate aviation uses company-owned aircraft to transport employees and clients. Aircraft used in these operations include business jets, helicopters, and twin piston-engine aeroplanes carrying between six and ten people. An example of this type of operation is the transport by helicopter of spectators to the British Formula One grand prix at Silverstone. This involves so many flights that, according to Cranfield Aviation Services, on race day the heliport is temporarily the world's busiest airport. Aerial work is

neg: Airstream Jets 2008 by Peter Maestrales. Airstream Jets specializes in providing aircraft and crews for on-demand private air charter, pro & collegiate sports team travel, VIP airliner charter for international delegations and air medical services. They also conduct private jet management, corporate aircraft purchases and provide business aviation market intelligence. Airstream Jets Airstream Jets, Inc. is a Private Jet Charter company founded in 2008 with headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida. The company is a member of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA). The company is known for its Distance Card jet card as well as its additional private jet services. The Distance

neg: Charter Communications households, with at least 1 million being in markets where competing providers operate. The merger was completed on May 18, 2016. The purchase made Charter the third-largest pay television company in the United States, behind AT&T and Comcast (the former having completed its merger with DirecTV in mid-2015). On January 26, 2017, it was reported that Verizon Communications was in talks with Charter to discuss a possible buyout. President and CEO of Liberty Media, Greg Maffei said that they were not interested in the deal. The deal was rejected around the end of May 2017. Charter claimed that the deal

neg: Macfadden Communications Group Corporation bought a controlling share in Macfadden and merged with the company, forming Macfadden/Bartell. Bartell owned WADO New York, WOKY Milwaukee, and KCBQ San Diego. A share in Bartell was acquired by Downe Communications in 1967, with full control in 1969. Between 1969 and 1974 Downe was acquired by Charter Company. Bartell was fully acquired by Downe in 1976, and Downe was fully acquired by Charter in 1978. Downe purchased the newspaper supplement "Family Weekly" in 1966, and the "Ladies' Home Journal" and "The American Home" from the Curtis Publishing Company in 1968. Macfadden's women's magazines were spun off in

neg: Granite State Communications Granite State Communications Granite State Communications is a telecommunications company based in Weare, New Hampshire providing telephone, internet, fiber, and television services to seven towns across the southern part of the state. The company was founded in 1877 when the New Hampshire Legislature granted a charter to the Chester & Derry Telegraph Company, giving rights to construct a telegraph line between the towns of Chester and Derry. Just a year earlier Alexander Graham Bell invented a new gadget, the telephone. While telephones were yet to be widely available, the people of Chester worked to have telegraph service brought to town.

neg: Teletype Corporation Teletype Corporation The Teletype Corporation, a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm since 1930, came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company changed its name to the name of its trademark equipment. Teletype Corporation, of Skokie, Illinois, was responsible for the research, development and manufacture of data and record communications equipment, but it is primarily remembered for the manufacture of electromechanical teleprinters. Because of the nature of its business, as stated in the corporate charter, Teletype Corporation was allowed a unique mode of operation within Western Electric. It was organized as a separate entity,

neg: Computer Communications Network This system gave small businesses online, real-time access to the type of data processing that in the past only companies with large mainframes and very large budgets could afford. Computer Communications Network Computer Communications Network was a company founded in 1968 by brothers Edward and Robert Eskine in Nashville, Tennessee. The core of its employees came from UNIVAC and Burroughs Corporation. CCN was one of the first companies to use telecommunications for small business purposes. CCN used UNIVAC model 494 computers and Burroughs model TC 500 computers. They also created software for wholesale beverage distribution, hospitals, and airline reservations. Burroughs

neg: History of Burger King a brand identity, or as a company spokesman stated, "what the consumers take away with them after they visit us--what we stand for..." Grand Met also made several moves in an attempt to broaden BK's business operations while expanding its presence globally. The first move by the company was the creation of the BK Expressway business concept, a new store format designed for locations where a traditional stand-alone restaurant was impractical. The company introduced two separate formats designed to operate in different business environments; the first concept was intended as a kiosk-type store that would be placed in locations such

neg: Media in Binghamton, New York Media in Binghamton, New York There are a number of notable sources of media in Binghamton, New York. Located near the border with Pennsylvania, Binghamton media act as a source of information and entertainment for a large region, extending well beyond the metropolitan area. Most local television and radio stations broadcast from Ingraham Hill, which is located in the town of Binghamton, just south of the city. According to the Nielsen Company, Binghamton is the 159th largest TV market in the United States. There are also two local cable stations in Binghamton, both carried by Charter Communications (doing business as

neg: Daisy Group Daisy Group Daisy Group Limited (formerly known as Freedom4 Group plc and Pipex Communications plc) is a British company that sells Internet and telecommunications services, including internet hosting, broadband Internet connections, and VOIP. The company traces back to the October 2003 acquisition of Pipex by GX Networks, to create Pipex Communications plc. The following month Firstnet Services changed its name to PIPEX Communications Business Solutions. Pipex purchased AIM Listed Host Europe plc in April 2004. Pipex acquired the business communications provider Nildram in August 2004. In 2005, the company purchased Donhost and freedom2surf. John Caudwell sold Caudwell Communications UK Limited

neg: Charter International Charter International Charter International plc was a large British engineering business based in London. It was acquired by Colfax Corporation in January 2012. The British South Africa Company was founded in 1889 by Royal Charter. In 1965 it merged with The Central Mining & Investment Corporation and The Consolidated Mines Selection Company to form Charter Consolidated. In the 1980s Charter Consolidated disposed of its overseas mining concerns to concentrate on its British engineering interests. In 1993 the company's name changed to Charter plc. In 1994 it acquired ESAB and in 1997 it acquired Howden. In 2008 the business was restructured

neg: Air Europe reflect the value of the group's assets, in particular those of BCal. In addition, BCal's senior management felt that both airlines' nature of operations and their business strategies were incompatible and that therefore there were no synergies to be gained from combining BCal with what they regarded as "essentially a charter company". The presence of Dan-Air, a major scheduled and charter operator at Gatwick and Manchester, Air Europe's two largest bases, meant that Air Europe was facing a potential competitor for every additional scheduled service and charter contract that became available. Dan-Air's large-scale presence at Gatwick, the airport's increasing scarcity

neg: Akhali Kselebi Akhali Kselebi Akhali Kselebi Ltd ( new web), also known as New Net is the third largest telecommunication company of Georgia and Caucasus (After Silknet and MagtiCom). It is a private electronic communications network operator which has business relations with various leading communications companies worldwide. Company was founded in August 2, 1996. It was a new word in electronic communications development and modernization business. The company is under corporate management by the supervisory board and management. More than 700 workers are employed in the company. Akhali Kselebi is a member of (T&T Group) consisting of the following companies: Akhtel (blend

neg: United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company locomotives to replace animal powered vehicles on rails. C&A first purchased and operated (what is now the oldest surviving operable steam locomotive in the world today) the "John Bull", imported from Great Britain ca. 1832. Its operations also lead to the important development of the iron T-rail type rail tracks that became standard around the world. The United Company also included the Delaware and Raritan Canal, an early foe and then friend of the C&A. The new conglomerate also included the New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company, the first railroad across the New Jersey Palisades. The first railroad charter

neg: Sunday Communications Sunday Communications Sunday Communications Limited (branded as SUNDAY Communications) is a Cayman Islands incorporated holding company, but headquartered and listed in Hong Kong S.A.R., China. It is the parent company of a mobile network operator of Hong Kong, Mandarin Communications (do business as SUNDAY). Sunday Communications Limited, was registered in Hong Kong as a foreign company in 2000; it was a listed company on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong since March 2000. The group, via a subsidiary, Hong Kong incorporated Mandarin Communications (trading as SUNDAY), was a mobile network operator of Hong Kong; Mandarin Communications itself, was incorporated in

neg: Charter International with the creation of a new Irish resident holding company, Charter International plc. The company was acquired by Colfax Corporation, an American company, in January 2012. The company had two main businesses: Charter International Charter International plc was a large British engineering business based in London. It was acquired by Colfax Corporation in January 2012. The British South Africa Company was founded in 1889 by Royal Charter. In 1965 it merged with The Central Mining & Investment Corporation and The Consolidated Mines Selection Company to form Charter Consolidated. In the 1980s Charter Consolidated disposed of its overseas mining concerns to

neg: Integrated Device Technology Integrated Device Technology Integrated Device Technology, Inc. is a publicly traded American corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, that designs, manufactures, and markets low-power, high-performance mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for the advanced communications, computing, and consumer industries. The company markets its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Founded in 1980, the company began as a provider of complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS) for the communications business segment and computing business segments. The company is focused on three major areas: communications infrastructure (wireless and wired), high-performance computing, and advanced power management. The communications segment offers communication clocks, serial RapidIO solutions for wireless

neg: Astelit Mobile Communications June 2006 Astelit company became the first Ukrainian company to receive a prestigious international business award — Stevie called by New York Post — "The Oscar of business society" as the Best New Company of the World. Astelit's dialing prefixes are +38063, +38073 and +38093. Astelit Mobile Communications Astelit is the third largest Ukrainian mobile telephone network operator, operating in Ukraine under the brand, that was launched at the end of January 2005. The company is co-owned by (55%) and Astelit Mobile Communications (45%), a subsidiary of SCM Holdings. In February 2015 Astelit under the life:) brand bought the license

neg: Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. is a business-to-business communications company founded in 1905. Originally, the company was established to serve the transportation construction industry, and the publication Roads & Bridges, started in 1906, continues to be published today. Currently, 20 regular publications are produced by Scranton Gillette. These cover building and construction, healthcare, horticulture, the water industry, infrastructure (e.g. roads and bridges), home furnishings and music. Ed Gillette is the current CEO of Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. He is the great-grandson of the company's founder, Halbert Powers Gillette, who was named as one of the “Top 100

neg: Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. Private Sector Transportation Construction Professionals of the 20th Century” by the ARTBA Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF). Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. is a business-to-business communications company founded in 1905. Originally, the company was established to serve the transportation construction industry, and the publication Roads & Bridges, started in 1906, continues to be published today. Currently, 20 regular publications are produced by Scranton Gillette. These cover building and construction, healthcare, horticulture, the water industry, infrastructure (e.g. roads and bridges), home furnishings and music. Ed Gillette is the current CEO of Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. He is the great-grandson

neg: Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act loan, tax advising, or credit financing. A business is not an individual with personal nonpublic information, so a business cannot be a customer under the "GLB". A business, however, may be liable for compliance to the "GLB" depending upon the type of business and the activities utilizing individual's personal nonpublic information. Under the "GLB", financial institutions must provide their clients a privacy notice that explains what information the company gathers about the client, where this information is shared, and how the company safeguards that information. This privacy notice must be given to the client prior to entering into an agreement

neg: Charter Communications network for its video, voice and broadband services. The company relied heavily on a predominantly coaxial cable-based network. The newer fiber-optic service-delivery system provides higher bandwidth speeds than are available with its coaxial cable infrastructure. On May 2, 2006, the company announced it would restructure seven of its call centers in the United States in the following locations: Orders completed online or through retail partners with Charter Communications are directed to a call center located in Tempe, Arizona, operated by Teletech (Direct Alliance). This call center has inbound/outbound sales agents, as well as online chat agents. Outsourced call centers were

neg: Codan Minetec is an established technology and service partner to the mining industry. The company provides integrated safety, productivity and communications solutions for surface and underground mining operations, including advanced tracking, mine operations management and collision avoidance systems. Codan Codan Limited is a manufacturer and supplier of communications, metal detection, and mining technology, headquartered in Adelaide, South Australia with revenue of A$132.3 million (2014). In 2017, revenue was A$226.1 million. Codan Limited is the communications business unit and the parent company of the Codan group, which is engaged in business through its operating segment Radio Communications. This product range is sold

neg: David Levy (inventor) 2003, he invented the concept of tracing a finger over the image of a QWERTY keyboard to indicate which word the user is trying to type, for which he received US patent 7,175,438. Digit Wireless was sold to Nuance Communications in March, 2010. In 2013 he joined Innovate America, LLC, a Boston-based biotechnology startup as a business consultant. Levy restructured the company and renamed it "OH2 Laboratories", then to focus exclusively on monetizing a collection of patents on solubilizing G-Protein Coupled Receptors, a technology invented by Shuguang Zhang PhD and licensed from MIT. The OH2 business plan is to use

neg: Akhali Kselebi of ახალი ("new") and ტელეკომუნიკაციები ("telecommunications")) is one of the companies founded by Akhali Kselebi that successfully operates on the telecommunications market. Akhali Kselebi Akhali Kselebi Ltd ( new web), also known as New Net is the third largest telecommunication company of Georgia and Caucasus (After Silknet and MagtiCom). It is a private electronic communications network operator which has business relations with various leading communications companies worldwide. Company was founded in August 2, 1996. It was a new word in electronic communications development and modernization business. The company is under corporate management by the supervisory board and management. More than

neg: NetJets NetJets NetJets Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, is an American company that sells part ownership or shares (called fractional ownership) of private business jets. NetJets was founded in 1964 as Executive Jet Aviation. It was the first private business jet charter and aircraft management company in the world. By March 2018, Netjets had over 7,000 owners, operates more than 300,000 flights per year between 3,200 airports in 150 countries and flew in the previous year. NetJets Inc., formerly Executive Jet Aviation, was founded in 1964 as the first private business jet charter and aircraft management company in the world.

neg: Bus companies in Ontario Coach Lines is a small family-owned business which provides charter services in the southwestern Ontario cities of Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge. It has a diverse fleet of motor coaches, activity coaches and mini coaches. Badder Bus Service is a charter bus company that started in 1950 in Thamesville as a school bus company. In 1978, due to the demand for charter service, it acquired highway coaches. In 2006 the company was split, with Badder Bus Service Limited becoming a charter oriented company, with the integration of the newly acquired coach operations of 'Gino's Bus Lines of Ingersoll, and The Badder

neg: Peoria Charter Coach Company II. In 1979, Winkler stepped down and his sons Roger and Stanley took over the business. In 1990, Roger bought Stanley's share of the business when the latter retired. In 1999, Roger's son William and his wife Cindy took over the business, buying it from Roger. In 2010, Peoria Charter opened a new terminal in Urbana. In 2013, the company moved its pick up location in Joliet from the Joliet Mall parking lot to the Union Station parking lot, in order to meet customers' demand for overnight parking. The company introduced online ticketing in 2010. Peoria Charter serves five universities

neg: Cleo (company) Cleo (company) Cleo is a software company that provides business-to-business (B2B), embedded integration, application-to-application (A2A), cloud integration and big data integration solutions. The privately held company, formally known as Cleo Communications LLC, was founded in 1976, but goes by "Cleo." Cleo originally began as a division of Phone 1 Inc., a voice data gathering systems manufacturer, and built data concentrators and terminal emulators — multi-bus computers, modems, and terminals to interface with IBM mainframes via bisynchronous communications. The company then began developing mainframe middleware in the 1980s, and with the rise of the PC, moved into B2B data communications and

neg: British South Africa Company of the shares were owned by the British/South African mining company Anglo American plc. In the 1980s the company disposed of its overseas mining concerns to concentrate on its British engineering interests. In 1993 Charter Consolidated Ltd changed its name to Charter plc, and in 2008 to Charter Limited, which is incorporated in England and Wales, Company Number 02794949. The British South Africa Company still exists, and is registered as a non-trading business incorporated in England and Wales, Company Number ZC000011. British South Africa Company The British South Africa Company (BSAC or BSACo) was established following the amalgamation of Cecil

neg: NuWave Communications NuWave Communications NuWave Communications is an American privately held company, supplying cloud-based telephony, including unified communications (UcaaS] and collaboration services, to customers in the finance, healthcare, hospitality, government and small business sectors. The company is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada with office locations in Los Angeles; Washington, DC; New Jersey and Gujarat, India. NuWave operates as a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) in 45 states and has operations in 58 countries. NuWave Communications was founded in 1998 by Shawn Sims. In 2011, NuWave, which at the time was a VoIP termination and toll-free service provider, augmented its business with the

neg: Types of business entity in Russia for members to change the charter capital of the company. Furthermore, a private limited company can collectively or individually hold at least a 10% interest in the company’s charter capital, and it does not have the power to request a court expel another participant. All of this is not possible in a joint-stock company, or prohibitively difficult. Types of business entity in Russia There are three types of business entity in Russia. These are: limited liability companies (LLCs), Joint-Stock Companies (JSCs) and partnerships. The first two are joint-stock companies (in that they are owned by their shareholders) and have limited

neg: Satellite Business Systems Satellite Business Systems Satellite Business Systems, abbreviated as "SBS", was a company founded by IBM, Aetna, COMSAT (and later wholly purchased by IBM and then subsequently sold to MCI), that provided private professional satellite communications through its SBS fleet of FSS geosynchronous satellites, and was the first company to do so. SBS was founded on December 15, 1975 by the aforementioned companies with the goal of providing a digital satellite communications network for business and other professional clients. In late 1970, MCI Communications created a subsidiary company named MCI Satellite, Inc. The idea was that satellites could provide 'long distance'

neg: DukeNet Communications On October 7, 2013, Time Warner Cable (which later bought by Charter Communications in 2016) announced that it had agreed to acquire DukeNet Communications LLC for $600 million, and on January 6, 2014, the deal officially closed. DukeNet Communications DukeNet Communications is a telecom and internet infrastructure company that serves the southeastern United States. Products include a metro and long haul fiber-optic network capable of 100 Gbit/s bandwidth. Formed in 1994 as the telecommunications arm of Duke Energy, DukeNet primarily offered wholesale fiber transport services until moving into the newly developing Fiber to the Tower (FTTT) space in 2006. ,

neg: Astraeus Airlines Gatwick Airport. Astraeus Airlines also had a history of providing ad-hoc capacity to various clients. This included sports charters (Manchester United, Arsenal, UK and Irish FA and many others), military charters, show business charters (Disney, Warner Bros.), various government contracts and general charters for the leisure and business industry. Astraeus Limited held a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence and was therefore permitted to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats. Astraeus Airlines was an IOSA registered company with the International Air Transport Association. Astraeus Airlines commenced charter operations in 2002 with

neg: XO Communications by a business unit for small businesses and government markets. XO Communications XO Communications (previously Nextlink Communications, Concentric Network Corporation and Allegiance Telecom, Inc. is a telecommunications company owned by XO Holdings, Inc (OTCBB: XOHO). XO provides managed and converged Internet Protocol (IP) network services for small and medium-sized enterprises. XO delivers services through a mix of fiber-based Ethernet and Ethernet over Copper (EoC). In addition, the company has external network-to-network interface (E-NNI) agreements with traditional carriers and cable companies. In a news release dated February 22, 2016, Verizon announced plans to acquire XO Communications' "fiber-optic network business." A combined

neg: Stage Entertainment under construction. Several weeks before the August announcement, Condé Nast CEO announced his five-year strategy to generate $600 million in new revenue from new revenue streams while driving costs out of the business and Advance/Newhouse ("A/N") notified Charter Communications that it intends to establish a credit facility collateralized by a portion of Advance/Newhouse Common Units in Charter Communications Holdings, LLC. With the creation of TopTicketLine in 1990, Stage Entertainment established its own call center for ticket sales. In June 2005, the company’s German subsidiary took over Ticket Online, which operated a ticket booking system used by hundreds of ticket agencies

neg: Bresnan Communications Bresnan Communications Bresnan Communications was an American cable television provider formed by William Bresnan in 1984. It originally operated cable systems on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Over the next fourteen years, its operations spread to Minnesota Wisconsin, Mississippi and Georgia. In 1994, the company added international operations in Chile and Poland, with the creation of Bresnan International Partners. The company reached 400,000 subscribers after purchasing systems from TCI. When AT&T acquired TCI, Bresnan began to consider an IPO. Before that could occur, Paul Allen's Charter Communications made an offer, and purchased Bresnan's U.S. cable systems for $3.1 billion, organizing them under