PAETEC Holding Corp.

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"PAETEC" redirects here. For the soccer stadium formerly known as PAETEC Park, see Sahlen's Stadium.
PAETEC Holding Corporation
Public
Traded as NASDAQ: PAET
Industry Business voice and data telecommunications
Fate acquired by Windstream Communications
Founded Rochester, New York May 1998 (1998-05)
Defunct December 2011
Headquarters Perinton, New York
Area served
 California, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia
Key people
 Arunas A. Chesonis, CEO, Chairman, & Founder of PAETEC
Richard T. Aab, Vice Chairman & Co-Founder of US LEC
Services Voice services
Data services
Software solutions
Customer premises equipment leasing
Managed services
Revenue Increase US$1624 million (2010)[1]
Decrease US$45 million (2010)[1]
Decrease US$(58 million) (2010)[1]
Total assets Increase US$2008 million (2010)[1]
Total equity Decrease US$137 million (2010)[1]
Number of employees
 Increase 4639 (2010)[1]
Subsidiaries 47 total (2010)[2]
Website www.paetec.com

PAETEC Holding Corporation was a FORTUNE 1000 telecommunications company headquartered in Perinton, New York, USA.[3] It was founded as the private company PaeTec Communications, Inc. in 1998 by Arunas A. Chesonis. In 2007 it merged with US LEC and became a publicly traded company, and in 2011 it was acquired by Windstream Communications.

PAETEC provided local and long-distance voice services, data and Internet services, and software applications, among others. PAETEC provided service to medium and large businesses, colleges and universities, hospitals, hotels, governmental organizations and other institutions within its service area.

Awards and recognition

PAETEC was the recipient of various local and national business awards.

  • 2010 Frost & Sullivan Customer Value Enhancement Award for VoIP and SIP Trunking Products
  • 2010 Named to FORTUNE 1000 list of America's largest companies
  • 2009 #9 Best Large Company to Work for in New York
  • 2008 #10 Best Large Company to Work for in New York
  • 2006 Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) Best-in-Class Service Partner Award from telecom researchers Atlantic-ACM
  • 2006 philanthropy award for Outstanding Corporation from the Genesee Valley Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (Rochester, NY)
  • 2005 American Business Ethics Award for a mid-sized company
  • Ranked #2 on the 2003 Deloitte Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America. Rankings were based on average percentage revenue growth over five years, from 1998 - 2002. PAETEC grew 192% percent during this period.

Mergers and acquisitions

  • September 9, 1999 - Purchased CAMPUSLINK Communications Systems, a privately owned telecommunications company based in Ann Arbor, Mich.
  • August 19, 2004 - Purchased Covista North East Call Zone (Covista Still Privately owned company, also operating as Total Tel)
  • January 4, 2005 - Purchased American Long Lines, a privately owned telecommunications company.
  • February 28, 2007 - Acquired Charlotte, NC based telecommunications company US LEC, becoming the publicly traded PAETEC Holding Corp
  • October 12, 2007 - Acquired Allworx Corp
  • February 8, 2008 - Acquired McLeodUSA
  • December 6, 2010 - Acquired Cavalier Telephone Corporation
  • December 28, 2010 - Acquired FTS Ltd. subsidiary, Leap RevChain
  • May 31, 2011 - Acquired XETA Technologies, Inc.
  • December 1, 2011 - Acquired by Windstream Communications

PAETEC owned the naming rights to PAETEC Park, a soccer-specific stadium in nearby Rochester, New York, from its opening in 2006 to 2008.

Name origin

Former headquarters in Perinton, New York, now a Windstream regional office

The name PAETEC was derived from the initials of the first names of its founder's wife Pam and four children Adam, Erik, Tessa and Emma. In earlier days, the name was displayed as PaeTec Communications, Inc. After the acquisition of US LEC, the new merged entity became PAETEC Holding Corp., however, the company is simply referred to as PAETEC.

Other

References

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