Telecommunications
Dept. of Information & Innovation
State of Vermont
133 State St, 5th Floor
Montpelier VT 05633-0210
Last year, we entered into a contract with Level 3 Communications to provide telephone and voice mail services to the State of Vermont and we began a planning process to migrate the existing SOV accounts from Verizon (now Fairpoint) to Level 3. Since that time there have been a number of changes that have raised the level of risk associated with making this transition. Based on the increase in risk associated with this migration, we have decided to terminate the contract with Level 3 Communications, effective June 30, 2008.
Fairpoint Communications, which took over from Verizon earlier this year, has agreed to extend the contract they acquired from Verizon until the end of August, 2009. We will go back out to bid for telephone and voice mail services in January 2009.
This decision has no effect on existing contracts with any provider for data circuits. Level 3 Communications continues to be one of the primary providers in the data arena for the State of Vermont.
If you have any questions, please address them to Deputy Commissioner David Tucker, david.tucker@state.vt.us or Telecommunications Manager Ruthann Sullivan, ruthann.sullivan@state.vt.us.
Click here to view the Level (3) voice mail user guide.
If you have questions or would like more information, please contact DII Telecommunications: (802) 828-3400
