Digital Business Lines - provides you with crystal-clear service, loaded with features (call waiting, call forwarding, call hunting, etc. ) to keep you business running smoothly.

Voice T-1 / PRI - interconnects your PBX or key system for local, long-distance, toll-free and international calling

Long-Distance, Cox Tll-Free, Cox Calling Cards - completes all your service needs.

Dedicated Long-Distance - provides inbound and outbound long distance for your higher volume calling needs.

Data Services:

Private Line transport Services - provides dedicated voice, data, and video transport services.  Interconnect your local offices, or connect to other carriers, long-haul providers, or data center operators.

Metro Ethernet Services - offers your business a simple, highly-scalable Ethernet networking solution that supports your Internet access requirments data-and bandwidth intensive applications,  and voice and data convergence strategies.

Internet Services:

Business Internet - delivers high-speed, cost effective Internet access with a rich set of Internet related features, providing your business with a highly customizable solution to you Internet service needs.

Optical Internet - provides a scalable, very high-speed, symmetrical Internet connection with the reliability of fiber optics.  OpticalInternet is  a fiber optic "direct to the premises" giving you an actual fiber optic hand off. Optical Internet scales to meet the needs of small businessess that require a cost-effective alternative to DSL services of higher cost T-1 Internet connections.

Video Services:

Digital Video Service - allows you to entertain and inform customers with excellent digital quality.

HD Video Service - gives you brilliatn collor and resolution up to six times sharper than traditional TV.

Cox Business in Tucson Arizona is the best choice for Local busines of any size for the following reasons:

• Superior network reliability curently running over four 9's of up time.
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• Cost-effective communication solutions customized to fit any budget
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·        12-month service agreement and purchase of Cox Business Internet and Cox Business Video required.

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·        Internet speeds up to 15.0M/2.0M!

·        Included at no cost - modem, DNS, 10 mailboxes & static IP!

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·        Business-class service level agreements.

·        Waived installation with a 12-month bundled service agreement!

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·        12-month service agreement and purchase of Cox Business Internet and Cox Business Telephone required.

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Offer valid until 12/31/08 to new commercial subscribers of Cox Digital Telephone, Cox Business Internet, and Cox Business Video in Arizona Cox-wired, serviceable locations. Minimum 1-year service contract required. Bundle is $115 per month and includes: Cox Business Internet 2.0Mbps/384Kbps, 1 phone line, 5 free features, free phone installation, and Cox Standard video service. Free features do not include Remote Call Forwarding, Voice Mail, and Distinctive Ringing. Free monthly minutes depend on number of lines purchased and limited to direct-dialed long distance calls within the contiguous U.S. Minutes have no cash value and expire at the end of each month. Additional long distance minutes will be charged at $0.05 per minute. Additional costs for installation, construction, inside wiring and equipment may apply. Offer does not include usage, applicable taxes, surcharges or fees. Discounts are not valid in combination with or in addition to other promotions, and cannot be applied to any other Cox account. Telephone modem equipment may be required. Modem uses electrical power to operate and has backup battery power provided by Cox if electricity is interrupted. Telephone service, including access to e911 service, will not be available during an extended power outage or if modem is moved or inoperable. Cox cannot guarantee uninterrupted or error-free Internet service or the speed of your service. Rates and bandwidth options vary and are subject to change. Services not available in all areas. Other restrictions apply. Telephone services are provided by Cox Arizona Telcom, LLC. ©2008 Cox Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.

Every business is different and has differnt needs / wants and differnt budgets that go along with those needs and wants.

Cox Business, is the best overall choice for busness in Tucson.  Not only does cox have a wide variety of different tyes of data products ranging from Direct to premise fiber optics, to gigabit ethernet, to SONET, to T1 over their Hybrid Fiber Coaxial, to their most popular Cox Business internet that has speeds 50Mb and above download speeds soon to be availiable on the release of DOCIS 3.0. but Cox Busniess does offer Business class Voice communcation products as well.  A fuly verbose VoIP infrastructre is in place and will be rolled out in Tucson very soon.

You will have the opportunity to get the lowest cost prices on the Internet for VoIP product such Cisco IP phones, Polycom, Avaya, Astra and Even Skype and Vonage handsets and tools.

The selection is huge and the prices ar low.  You won't be disappointed.

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T-Mobile Unveils Residential VoIP Phone Service

Mobile telephone service giant, T-Mobile, has landed on the VoIP telephone scene. As of today, the company plans to offer VoIP telephone service for residential users at a price of only $10 per month. The catch, however, is that you must be a T-Mobile cell service customer in order to be eligible for T-Mobile@Home digital phone VoIP service. On the surface, T-Mobile offering VoIP service at such a low price seems like a steal, but if you were to end up subscribing to their digital phone service, you would end up shelling out more cash than you originally thought.

The first cost associated with T-Mobile@Home, not including the low $10/month cost of the service, is that you would have to purchase a $49.99 router which connects your landline phone to your broadband connection. The second cost you would encounter is the monthly price of your broaband Internet connection. Since T-Mobile@Home uses broadband connectivity to make phone calls, you would have pay for a broadband connection. Many broadband providers offer a discount if you also subscribe to their digital phone service, and you would lose this discount if you went with T-Mobile@Home instead of your cable provider's VoIP service.

So if you are already a T-Mobile customer and are looking to try VoIP telephone service, then T-Mobile@Home might seem like a good bet. If you are not a T-Mobile customer, however, you would be better served going with a dedicated VoIP service provider that doesn't require you to be a cellular customer in order to receive the service…..I recomend Voip.com for a better residential Voip service. 

Sprint customers have to find new Internet providers

By Jack Gillum Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 06.20.2008

After eight years, Kevin Prodromides is getting cut off.

A long-time Sprint subscriber, Prodromides signed up for the company's wireless Internet access because no one else could provide him with connectivity when he first started looking in 2000. Cable Internet wasn't available, and digital subscriber line, or DSL, service wasn't possible because his neighborhood's copper phone wires weren't built for speed. So Sprint Broadband Direct, he said, "was our only option." But last month, Sprint began notifying customers that its wireless service would end by July 31, forcing its customers in Tucson and elsewhere to find replacement connectivity.

In the termination letter to its customers, Sprint said the Federal Communications Commission reallocated the wireless spectrum in which its Internet service had been operating for new, emerging technologies. "As the result of a recent FCC action, Sprint will no longer have access to the spectrum," the letter continued.

Sprint said its Mobile Broadband wireless service, which uses cell-phone towers, was a "comparable replacement," (What NOT for Business….?) although it could be harder to share the connection and usually requires a laptop-specific card. A Sprint spokesman said there were about 12,500 Broadband Direct customers nationwide at the time it sent out its service-termination notices last month. Sprint discontinued selling the service 2001, although it kept serving those customers until now.

Prodromides began looking elsewhere and came across Simply Bits, a Tucson-based wireless Internet provider. On Thursday, the 8-year-old Sprint equipment came down at his Northwest Side home, and the new antenna went up.

Simply Bits, among other local ISPs, is hoping to pick up Sprint's customer base.

After learning that Sprint was dropping its wireless coverage, Simply Bits launched LifeAfterSprint.com, a way to draw customers to its own wireless service — for a rate similar to what they were paying Sprint. So far, Simply Bits has signed up more than 100 ex-Sprint customers, said Bradley Feder, a Simply Bits managing partner. Customers who hand over their service-termination letters to Simply Bits get their service locked in with a three-year contract, usually for about $45 month for Simply Bit's 1-megabit download and 384-kilobit upload speeds.

DakotaCom.Net, another Tucson-based ISP that offers DSL Internet access, is also busy signing up former Sprint clients. About 20 Sprint Broadband customers subscribed to DakotaCom.Net services in the past week alone, said Chris Phillips, vice president of sales for DakotaCom.Net.

"A lot of them are qualifying for DSL," said Phillips. He noted that many people signed on with Sprint initially because they couldn't get Qwest Communications' DSL service because of equipment limitations.DSL offers high-speed Web surfing at prices starting at about $30 a month, plus ISP fees.

DakotaCom.Net also offers a fixed-wireless Internet service starting at about $60 a month, Phillips said.

While Web surfers have more options today for Internet access — cable providers have expanded their high-speed coverage, and DSL technology has improved — there are still some who need a wireless solution because of poor infrastructure or their remote location.

● Contact Jack Gillum at 573-4178 At the AZ Daily Star

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Sprint Apparently sold their licensed frequency that they operated their Fixed wireless service in.

Personally I am glad to see the service finally die…It was not a very reliable service in most of Tucson AZ

The good news is that a lot of those that thought they could not get service any other way when they first were forced to settle with the Sprint fixed wireless solution now have other options.

Did you know that Cox communications and Cox Business has dramatically extended their network over the past few years?

If you are a Southern Arizona business being dumped by Sprint and you need new service ASAP give me a call

Keith with Cox Business 520-867-7600

Comcast and Time Warner to bankroll WiMax joint venture

Comcast and Time Warner Cable are looking to help bankroll a new joint venture between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire to deliver 4G wireless services, according to a report in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal.

According to unnamed sources, the companies are discussing a plan to provide funding for a new wireless company that would be operated by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire. The new company would use network spectrum and assets from both companies to form a nationwide wireless network using WiMax.

Last summer, Sprint and Clearwire announced they'd be working together to build a nationwide network. In November, they terminated their agreement, but each company has said separately that it is talking to the other about ways to work together. For months, rumors have floated around that Sprint would spin off its WiMax network, known as Xohm, and combine it with Clearwire's network.

The Journal said the companies are now trying to raise $3 billion to create the joint venture. Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, would put in about $1 billion, while Time Warner, the second largest cable operator in the country, is willing to pony up $500 million, the Journal said.

Bright House Networks, a smaller cable operator, is also supposedly in the talks and could contribute around $100 million to $200 million. Intel might be contributing $1 billion, and Google could throw in a couple of hundred million too, the article said.

For years now, the cable companies have been competing vigorously with traditional phone companies AT&T and Verizon Communications for customers. Cable operators have been eating away at phone companies' traditional phone businesses, and phone companies are starting to make inroads in certain markets with their TV services. The two groups have competed for high-speed broadband customers, too.

Wireless is the one place where cable hasn't been able to compete so far, but the cable industry has been trying to plug that hole. In late 2005, Comcast, Time Warner, Cox Communications, and Advance/Newhouse Communications announced a joint venture with Sprint Nextel to offer wireless service as part of their bundle of services.

The cable companies had hoped that they could integrate mobility into their offering to add more value to existing services like telephony, TV, and broadband. The companies started offering their bundled wireless service, called Pivot, early last year in certain markets, but by the end of the year demand was so low they stopped marketing it. Part of the problem is that nearly 80 percent of U.S. residents already subscribe to a cell phone service. And the cable operators weren't given much freedom in pricing or packaging the Pivot service to make it enticing enough for people to switch carriers.

New networks on the horizon

Meanwhile, the wireless industry is gearing up to build the next generation of networks. These so-called 4G networks will allow people to connect a wide array of consumer electronic devices to the Internet, including cell phones, PDAs, music players, gaming devices, digital cameras, and more.

AT&T and Verizon Wireless, which is owned by Verizon Communications and Vodafone, have already said they plan to use technology known as LTE (Long Term Evolution) for their 4G network. LTE has been positioned as an alternative to WiMax, but so far the technology is at least a couple of years behind WiMax in terms of development.

Sprint has placed its bet on WiMax. And the mobile operator, which is in third place in the U.S. behind AT&T and Verizon Wireless, hopes WiMax will give it a running start for the next generation of networks.

The problem is that Sprint's core cell phone business is in shambles. The 2005 merger with Nextel, which uses a completely different network technology than Sprint, is largely to blame. And the company has been bleeding customers for several quarters.

For months, analysts have criticized Sprint and its management team for focusing too much on WiMax. As a result, Sprint's new CEO, Dan Hesse, has been looking for ways to spin off Xohm, but still retain some benefit to Sprint's shareholders and to the company in general. A deal with Clearwire, a company started by wireless magnate Craig McCaw that is also building a nationwide WiMax network, seems like a perfect marriage.

Of course, the biggest hurdle is finding the money to fund such a joint venture.

This is where the cable companies come in. Cable needs to make a play in 4G wireless. And Sprint and Clearwire need the money. So it makes perfect sense for the two sides to come together.

Comcast and Time Warner signaled their intent to get into the 4G wireless market during the Federal Communications Commission's Advanced Wireless Service auction in the summer of 2006. Bidding under the name SpectrumCo, the Sprint/cable joint venture, which includes Comcast and Time Warner, agreed to pay $2.4 billion for 137 licenses in cities including New York, Boston, Washington, Detroit, and Atlanta.

The cable companies haven't specified what they plan to do with the spectrum, but like the 2.5 GHz spectrum that Sprint and Clearwire are using to build their WiMax networks, the AWS spectrum, which is in the 1.7GHz to 2.1 GHz band, is well suited for wireless broadband services, which will likely include mobile video.

Cox Communications, which is involved in Spectrum Co., has signaled that it might try to build its own wireless network in its region. In the recent FCC 700 MHz auction, the company spent $305 million on 22 spectrum licenses, mainly in its territory in the South and Southwest.

According to the Journal, Comcast and Time Warner would get equity in the new Sprint/Clearwire company in exchange for funding it. They'd also have the option to buy wholesale access to the network so they can offer their own wireless broadband service.

The Journal article said a deal is expected to be finalized by the end of the week–before Sprint and Clearwire head to Las Vegas for the big CTIA tradeshow. So stay tuned.