NuVox job losses fewer than 60

By John Boyanoski  

FEBRUARY 11, 2010 4:27 p.m. (0)

NuVox employees learned this week that less than 60 people will lose their jobs as part of the telecommunications company’s sale to Arkansas-based Windstream.

The jobs will be spread through various sectors of the company and will take place over the next few weeks, said Brent Whittington, Windstream’s chief operating officer.

Not all of the 60 jobs will come in Greenville, he said. Some will be in other parts of NuVox’s locations. NuVox has 700 people in Greenville and 1,700 across the Southeast.

However, Whittington said he foresees future job growth for the company as Windstream moves all of its business service customers to the Greenville offices.

Windstream purchased the Greenville-based NuVox this week for $647 million. It will soon rebrand the downtown offices, which are split between 90,000 square feet of space at the corner of Main Street and McBee Avenue and 85,000 square feet of space on four floors in the Landmark Building, as Windstream.

He does not foresee the company moving into one large office space downtown.

Windstream started courting NuVox officials, who were not looking to sell, during the summer as a way to grow its business service sector, Whittington said. NuVox did roughly $565 million in revenue last year and has 90,000 customers in 16 states.

Many telecommunications companies prefer to purchase existing businesses as opposed to battling them for potential clients because of the capital investment of starting a business in a new region.

In NuVox’s offices in the Landmark offices, there are banks and banks of computer processors, hundreds of employees in a call center and a mission control center where staff monitor network lines 24 hours a day.

A company couldn’t build that kind of network over night, so it makes more financial sense to acquire an existing firm, Whittington said.

Windstream is an S&P 500 company with about $3.7 billion in annual revenues. Windstream provides phone, high-speed Internet and high-definition digital TV services to customers in 21 states.

NuVox was started in 1998 as TriVergent and provides telephone and IP networks for businesses. By 2004 it was known New South and merged with NuVox, which was then based in St. Louis.

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