Windstream, a communications company with an office in Rochester, has been named a Platinum Level Polycom Choice Partner by Polycom Inc. The designation allows organizations seeking to invest and implement world-class unified communications and collaboration solutions to turn to Windstream. ...

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Windstream, a provider of advanced network communications, has added three team members to its new Rochester office in the recently renovated Seneca Building. Jon Providence has been promoted to regional sales director and he has hired Cindi Crowley as regional ...

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About 70 Windstream employees have already moved into the telecom company’s new offices just across the way from the skeleton of the Midtown Tower. And by the end of October, all of the approximately 335 employees will call two floors ...

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State and local officials, along with area business leaders, gathered at the Midtown site Monday to celebrate the start of construction on Windstream’s new facility at the former Seneca Building. The project is the first private development to take hold ...

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The Federal Communications Commission approved the PAETEC-Windstream merger Tuesday. With the New York Public Service Commission giving its approval last week, the most significant regulatory hurdles to the acquisition have been cleared. Rochester Mayor Thomas Richards said in a release ...

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Now that Windstream Corp. has committed to bring hundreds of jobs to the Midtown site, Sen. Charles E. Schumer is urging the Public Services Commission and Federal Communications Commission to act swiftly on the pending review of Windstream’s purchase of ...

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Windstream Corp. is bringing a breath of fresh air to downtown Rochester — it will open an office next year at the former Midtown Plaza site where PAETEC was going to build its world headquarters. The corporation, an S&P 500 ...

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The merger between PAETEC Holding Corp. and Windstream Communications is moving forward with the approval of stockholders. At a special meeting Thursday in Manhattan, approximately 99 percent of the shares voting were in favor of adopting the merger agreement, according to a release.

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PAETEC Holding Corp. has announced that Institutional Shareholder Services, an independent proxy advisory firm, supports the PAETEC acquisition by Windstream Corp. and recommends that PAETEC stockholders vote in favor.

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More federal money is on the way to help redevelop the former Midtown plaza site where PAETEC was going to build its world headquarters. Sen. Charles E. Schumer announced Wednesday a $2 million grant from the Economic Development Administration.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Voice and data services provider Windstream says it's reached a deal to buy Paetec Holding for about $891 million in stock. Little Rock, Ark.-based Windstream Corp. says the addition of Paetec Holding Corp.

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