Aug, 2001 : Bandwidth Market Claims World's Biggest Telecom Site

📅 August 13, 2001 - Bandwidth Market, Ltd., a leading telecommunications services broker, has now released to the public its huge collection of telecommunication resources and information.

Company officials claim BandwidthMarket.com is now the biggest and the best telecommunications web site in the world. Bandwidth Market helps companies buy and sell private lines, Internet access, co-location services, dark optical fiber, and long-distance minutes.
Bandwidth Market has hundreds of thousands of products listed in 500 U.S.cities and 40 countries - the most telecom listings on the Internet.
In the past three weeks, Bandwidth Market has expanded its web site'scontent more than ten times. "We measured the AT&T web site with 300megabytes of information," said Howard Holme, president of Bandwidth Market,Ltd. from Denver, Colorado. "Our site now makes publicly available more than100 times as much information. Without any charge, users can searchBandwidth Market to find Securities and Exchange Commission filings of morethan 500 telecom companies, over 80,000 patents, hundreds oftelecommunications and antitrust-related court cases, white papers,speeches, articles, presentations, and links to thousands of telecom-relatedcompanies and resources. We are also using excellent search engines thatmake finding specific information much easier."
Leah Pearlman, company spokesperson, said: "Our goal was to consolidate thepublic telecom-related information on the Internet on one fast andeasy-to-use website. One major source of information is governmentinformation, from 50 foreign countries, several federal government agencies,50 states, and many cities."
Google ranks Bandwidth Market fifteenth among U.S. Communications Providersin its PageRank order.
"We hope and expect to rise yet higher in the respected Google ranking.Since the new BandwidthMarket.com site's release over the past three weeks,many additional users and search engines have found our expanded site. Wehave seen a four-fold increase in the number of daily hits and uniquevisitors," said John McCullough, CTO of Bandwidth Market.
In April of 2001, Frost and Sullivan awarded Bandwidth Market, Ltd. with the2001 Internet Marketing Strategy Leadership Award, and concluded that"BandwidthMarket.com's web site provides a wealth of information to itsservice provider sellers, and corporate and carrier buyers, and iseffectively using the Internet as a key marketing strategy that willcontinue to drive company growth."
The Federal Communications Commission and 50 state public utilitiescommissions published telecommunications carriers' tariffs, butimplementation of a detariffing rule will eliminate much of that informationfrom those or other sources. Bandwidth Market will keep the tariffs on itsweb site, along with the 418 documents found in 0.13 seconds, discussing"detariffing."
Buyers and sellers of telecom services can find maps, real-time reports,industry standards, and company presentations about a specific product.Then, without leaving BandwidthMarket.com, buyers can make an informedbuying decision. Bandwidth Market thus attracts buyers to its site, andadditional sellers to join the more than 50 major carriers listed ascustomers of the company.