COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- As more consumers turn their
backs on traditional landline telephone service, analysts see Internet
telephony going mainstream in the next two years. Projections indicate
there will be 32 million Internet phone lines while traditional
residential landlines will fall from about 114 million last year to
about 88 million by 2009, according to Gartner Research.
Ohio-based Slane Telcom is capitalizing on this trend by acquiring
Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) and deploying Motorola's
Canopy wireless broadband technology to deliver high-speed Internet and
Internet telephony services across the U.S. Slane's 2006 acquisition of
a partial ownership stake in Plannet Group of Columbus, Ohio positioned
the companies to offer Ohio's first completely wireless transport system
offering Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Services. The company
intends to replicate this model in all planned acquisitions.
As part of Slane Telcom's aggressive growth path, it has signed a master
agreement with American Tower, which provides access to 24,000 towers
across the country. O'Connor has successfully completed four
acquisitions of fixed wireless providers in the past two years including
eSedona, the largest ISP in Sedona, Arizona. He projects three more
deals will be completed in 2007.
With more than 4,000 subscribers, Slane is quickly becoming one of the
largest WISPs in the U.S.
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