Global TeleVentures, Inc Accepted into the George Mason University Enterprise Center
Release Date: December 1st, 2005
Today, Global TeleVentures, Inc, Powerline Telco’s parent company was accepted into the Mason Enterprise Center’s high technology incubation center. Said Subodh Nayar, President of Global TeleVentures, Inc, “Being offered access to the resources of the University and the MEC will greatly increase the probability of continued business success for GTV.”
About Global TeleVentures, Inc. Global TeleVentures, Inc. specializes in providing the functional expertise to define, create, build and operate communication companies in recently liberalized markets. www.globalteleventures.com
About the Mason Enterprise Center. The Mason Enterprise Center is a university-based economic development enterprise that focuses the energy, skills and intellectual capital of George Mason University on enterprise creation and expansion. Specializing in the areas of government contracting, international business, and technology ventures, the Mason Enterprise Center provides incubates with access to faculty, students, alumni, researchers, information sources, inventions, and other resources required to help them expand their businesses, improve their organizations, and strengthen the regional economy. www.masonenterprisecenter.org
Global TeleVentures, Inc to determine how to extend access to high-speed Internet in Rural Florida
Release Date: September 26th, 2005
Today, the North Florida Business Development Council, Inc., d.b.a. Opportunity Florida, the economic development arm of the eight Counties in NW Florida that are considered rural areas of critical economic concern (RACEC) and therefore receive special economic assistance from the State of Florida appointed Global TeleVentures, Inc to undertake a detailed economic evaluation to measure the contribution always on high-speed Internet access will have on the communities covered by the NW Florida RACEC and that the provision of those services can be successfully achieved on a purely commercial basis by a wireless or wireless hybrid Internet Service Provider (WISP).
About Global TeleVentures, Inc. Global TeleVentures, Inc (GTV) provides consultative services and funding for the creation and operation of telephony companies in poorly served or recently liberalized markets. The Company was incorporated in Virginia in February 2003. Since 2003, the Company has worked in Mongolia, Panama and Brazil. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Powerline Telco, GTV is providing Broadband evaluation services to both the National Rural Electric Association (NRECA) and the National Rural Telephone Cooperative association (NRTC).
About Opportunity Florida. Opportunity Florida is an economic development organization committed to growing the regional economy in NW Florida. NW Florida Rural Areas of critical economic concern are the following Counties - Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty and Washington. www.opportunityflorida.com
Powerline Telco awarded contract to analyze the role Broadband over Powerline could play in rural America
Release Date: February 1st, 2005
Today, the cooperative research network, the research arm of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and the National Rural Telephone Cooperatives Association appointed Powerline Telco a wholly owned subsidiary of Global TeleVentures, Inc to conduct the projects which will test the reliability, latency, Internet data rates and network performance over long distances in low-population areas through distribution lines that are typical in electric distribution cooperatives.
Steve Collier, vice president, Emerging Technologies at NRTC, said, “The purpose of the projects is to provide NRTC and CRN members real data to enable them to evaluate to what extent BPL might be able to provide the necessary bandwidth and network performance to extend broadband Internet service into their service areas.”
“We’re looking for ‘just the facts’ about BPL performance,” said CRN’s Martin Gordon, who manages telecommunications projects for CRN.
About Powerline Telco Powerline Telco (PLT) provides support for the evaluation, deployment, and operation of broadband networks on behalf of electric utilities. PLT has established itself as a leading solution provider in the emerging BPL sector. It provides a turnkey solution for cost effective broadband deployment and profitable operation. For more information, visit www.pltinc.com.
About CRN and the NRECA. CRN is a research program that is dedicated to solving the business challenges of electric cooperatives through the use of technology applications. CRN has a close working relationship with EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute), collaborating nationally on research and advancement activities of that electric industry- wide group. NRECA is the national service organization that represents the nation's more than 900 private, not- for-profit, consumer-owned electric cooperatives, which provide electric service to 37 million people in 47 states. For more information, visit www.nreca.coop.
About the NRTC. NRTC leads and supports more than 1,200 rural electric and telephone utility member organizations by delivering telecommunications solutions to strengthen member businesses, promote economic development and improve the quality of life in rural America. The rural utilities that make up NRTC offer services to more than 30 million rural households in the United States. For more information, visit www.nrtc.coop.
About Global TeleVentures, Inc. Global TeleVentures, Inc. specializes in providing the functional expertise to define, create, build and operate communication companies in recently liberalized markets. www.globalteleventures.com
Global TeleVentures, Inc assumes full ownership of Powerline Telco
Release date: January 1st, 2005
Global TeleVentures today bought out the remaining 75% of the equity of Powerline Telco A company focusing on the 864 electricity distribution cooperatives that serve 12% of the nation’s population and own nearly 43%, of the nation’s electric distribution lines, which cover three quarters of the nation's landmass.
About Powerline Telco Powerline Telco will help cooperatives provide high-speed Internet service to some of the 37 million people in 2,500 of 3,141 counties in the U.S, many of which do not have an affordable high-speed option to access the Internet. http://www.pltinc.com
About Global TeleVentures, Inc. Global TeleVentures, Inc. specializes in providing the functional expertise to define, create, build and operate communication companies in recently liberalized markets. www.globalteleventures.com |
