Media Kit - Company Overview
PROFILE
Smart City is a full-service family of telecommunications companies,
based in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Known internationally as a leader in
convention services, Smart City also offers solutions for Business,
Hospitality and Master-Planned Communities in Central Florida.
Through its various operating companies, including the mpiNET
Internet service in Maitland, Smart City provides five-star
voice/data, Internet, WiFi, DSL, co-location, Web hosting and
managed network services to more than 10,000 businesses and
residences in Central Florida, including the Orange County
Convention Center and several major theme parks, resorts and hotels.
- Smart City Telecom, based in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., is a
full-service telecommunications company with more than 30 years
experience as the Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) – the
local phone company - for Walt Disney World, the master-planned
community of Celebration and the mixed-use development around Little
Lake Bryan. The company also provides Internet, Web-hosting, data
network and co-location services for business through its mpiNET
subsidiary in Maitland, Fla. Smart City’s network utilizes fiber,
copper and wireless transport that can deliver virtually all the
bandwidth needed for any application.
- Smart City Solutions, a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC)
based in Lake Buena Vista, manages voice and data services under
contract to the Orange County Convention Center.
- Smart City Networks, based in Las Vegas, is the nation’s leading
provider of convention and meeting communication services with more
than 18 million square feet of meeting space under contract,
including the Orange County Convention Center.
HISTORY
When Walt Disney masterminded his Florida theme parks in the 1960s,
that vision included state-of-the-art telecommunications. That’s how
Walt Disney World came to have its own independent telephone
company, Vista-United Telecommunications. This Florida partnership,
owned by Vista Communications, Inc. (an indirect wholly owned
subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company) and United Telephone Company
of Florida (a wholly owned subsidiary of Sprint Corporation) became
the Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier for the Walt Disney World
resort, the planned community of Celebration and the
residential and commercial development around Little Lake Bryan
Smart City was founded as Centel Facilities Communications in 1984 as
a partnership between the Houston Astros and Centel to provide
telephone services to the Astrodome and the nearby Astrohall meeting
facility. The company expanded its service to major convention
centers in Anaheim, Houston and Los Angeles and by the mid-1990s,
under the new name of Facilities Communications International, was
providing complete telecommunications service for many of the
nation’s largest and most technologically challenging tradeshows In March 2001,
Smart City acquired Vista-United Telecommunications.
Its service area consists of 27,000 acres, or 42 square miles,
located 15 miles southwest of Orlando. It also owns and operates
more than 1,800 payphones in Central Florida, Nevada and Southern
California. In 2002, Smart City purchased mpiNET, which maintains a 24-hour
Network Operations Center in Maitland. SERVICES
Hospitality: Smart City has more than 10,000 rooms under management
in Central Florida. Services include: voice, data, High-Speed
Internet Access – wired or wireless, and infrastructure consulting.
The company has also catered to presidents and kings, providing
secure point-to-point connections for visiting dignitaries.Business: Offered through mpiNET, a
Smart City company. Services
include: co-location, managed services, web-hosting and Internet
connectivity. Convention & Meetings: As one of the world’s largest providers with
more than 18 million square feet under contract, Smart City designs,
consults and installs world-class convention communications systems.
It has handled event telecommunications for virtually every Fortune
500 company and worked with venues from Hong Kong to Houston,
including the Orange County Convention Center. Planned Communities: As the voice, data and Internet provider
to the planned community of Celebration, Smart City knows the
unique challenges developers face in providing for the
ever-expanding communications needs of tomorrow’s urban centers.
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