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Companhia espera crescimento do EBITDA Ajustado de 20 a 25 por cento em 2012

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BROOMFIELD, Colorado, 12 de fevereiro de 2012 /PRNewswire/ —

Destaques do Quarto Trimestre e do Ano de 2011

Excluindo os efeitos da aquisição da Global Crossing em 4 de outubro de 2011, em uma base individual, a Level 3:

• Aumentou a receita dos Serviços Principais de Rede (Core Network Services) em 2,6 por cento sequencialmente e 7,9 por cento em relação ao ano anterior, em base de moeda constante
• Alcançou crescimento de dois dígitos do EBITDA Ajustado Consolidado de 13% para o ano de 2011 comparado com o ano de 2010
• Gerou US$ 103 milhões de Fluxo de Caixa Livre positivo no quarto trimestre de 2011 e US$ 32 milhões negativos para o ano de 2011, excedendo as projeções anuais do Fluxo de Caixa Livre em US$ 83 milhões positivos.
• As despesas de capital foram de US$ 443 milhões para o ano de 2011, aproximadamente 12 por cento da receita total

Para os negócios da Global Crossing em base individual:

• Excluindo a diminuição da receita do Governo do Reino Unido, a receita dos serviços “Investir para Crescer (Invest and Grow)” não sofreu alteração sequencialmente e aumentou três por cento quando comparada com o ano anterior, em base de moeda constante.
• Aumento da receita dos serviços “Investir para Crescer” da GC Impsat em dois por cento sequencialmente e nove por cento em relação ao ano anterior, em base de moeda constante.

Em base consolidada, o prejuízo líquido por ação foi de US$ 0,80 para o quarto trimestre, ou US$ 0,62  excluindo itens especiais consistindo de ganhos de vendas a partir de operações de carvão desativadas, encargos pelo resgate ou recompra de dívidas, imparidade de algumas licenças de espectro sem-fio e custos associados com a transação da Global Crossing, comparado com o prejuízo líquido de US$ 1,75 por ação para ao terceiro trimestre de 2011, ou US$ 1,38 excluindo

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By Erik Kirschbaum

BERLIN |
Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:32am EST

BERLIN (Reuters) – Greek promises on austerity measures are no longer good enough because so many vows have been broken and the country that has been a “bottomless pit” has to dramatically change its ways, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said.

In a hard-hitting interview with the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, Schaeuble also said it is up to Greece whether the country can stay in the euro zone as part of its efforts to restore its competitiveness.

“The promises from Greece aren’t enough for us anymore,” Schaeuble said. “With a new austerity programme they are going to first have to implement parts of the old programme and save.”

Schaeuble pointed out that German opinion polls show a majority of Germans are willing to help Greece.

“But it’s important to say that it cannot be a bottomless pit. That’s why the Greeks have to finally close that pit. And then we can put something in there. At least people are now starting to realize it won’t work with a bottomless pit.”

Schaeuble said Greece would be supported “one way or another” but warned the country needed to do its homework on improving its competitiveness and hinted it might have to leave the euro zone to do that.

“Greece needs to do its own homework to become competitive — whether that happens in conjunction with a new rescue programme or by another route that we actually don’t want to take…”

When asked if that meant Greece would leave the euro zone for that, Schaeuble said:

“That is all in the hands of the Greeks themselves. But even in the event (Greece leaves the euro zone), which almost no one assumes will happen, they will still remain part of Europe.”

Schaeuble said Germany, the euro zone’s paymaster, wants to prevent that.

“We’re happy to help but we shouldn’t give others the feeling that they don’t have work hard themselves. Every country is responsible for itself.”

He said that the rescue efforts for Greece are turning out to be more difficult than efforts associated with German reunification in 1990.

“The reason is the realization that there is a need for change, and change dramatically, still needs to develop further with a lot of people in Greece,” said Schaeuble, who was a key government architect of German reunification.

Schaeuble said there was quite a difference between Greece and other euro zone strugglers.

“The Greeks are a special case…The Portuguese government is doing a decent job,” he said, adding that

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By Harry Papachristou and Matt Robinson

ATHENS |
Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:38am EST

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek lawmakers looked set to endorse a new and deeply unpopular austerity deal on Sunday to secure a multi-billion-euro bailout and avert what Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned would be “economic chaos.”

After days of dire warnings and threats of rebellion, parliament began debating the bill setting out 3.3 billion euros ($4.35 billion) in wage, pension and job cuts as the price of a 130-billion-euro rescue package from the European Union and International Monetary Fund – Greece’s second since 2010.

Greece needs the funds before March 20 to meet debt repayments of 14.5 billion euros.

But the bill has caused turmoil within the ruling coalition and deepened a social crisis among Greeks already hit by a round of cuts and tax hikes to ease the country’s huge debt burden.

During the debate a Communist Party deputy hurled the pages of the bill on the floor of the chamber and in fiery exchanges with lawmakers, Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos warned them: “If the law is not passed, the country will go bankrupt.”

He said the vote in the 300-seat parliament, which began shortly after 2 p.m. (1200 GMT), had to come by midnight “because come Monday morning, banking and financial markets must get the message that Greece can and will survive.”

Euro zone paymaster Germany ratcheted up the pressure on Sunday, saying Europe needed action, not words.

Late on Saturday Papademos had warned that failure to back the bill would mean a disorderly default and “set the country on a disastrous adventure.” Greece was nearing “ground zero,” he said in an address to the nation .

“It would create conditions of uncontrolled economic chaos and social explosion,” Papademos said.

“The country would be drawn into a vortex of recession, instability, unemployment and protracted misery and this would sooner or later lead the country out of the euro,” he said.

The EU and IMF say they have had enough of broken promises and that the funds will be released only with the clear commitment of Greek political leaders that they will implement the reforms whoever wins an election potentially in April.

“The promises from Greece aren’t enough for us any more,” German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview published on Sunday in Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

German opinion polls show a majority of Germans are willing to help, Schaeuble said, “but it’s important to say that it cannot be a bottomless pit.

“That’s why the Greeks have to

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—Multi-year contract provides contract vehicle for agencies to purchase networking solutions from tw telecom

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COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – tw telecom (NASDAQ: TWTC), a global provider of managed services, including Business Ethernet, converged and IP VPN solutions for enterprises and government entities in South Carolina and throughout the U.S., announced today that it was awarded a multi-year contract by the State of South Carolina to offer industry-leading enhanced data transmission and co-location services to the State’s agencies and higher educational institutions.

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“We welcome the opportunity to work with the state of South Carolina and its agencies and are excited to prove how our solutions can help government agencies become more effective,” said Christopher Oberg, Vice President and General Manager of tw telecom in South Carolina.  “We are looking forward to delivering these innovative solutions and our world-class customer care to the State of South Carolina.”

The agreement with the South Carolina Budget and Control Board authorizes state departments, agencies and colleges and universities to obtain Ethernet, co-location and DS1 services from tw telecom to improve data transmission, connectivity and networking performance while minimizing costs. 

tw telecom connects more commercial buildings to its resilient, fiber network than any other competitive communications provider.  It has the third highest market share of retail Ethernet ports in service, maintains its own metro fiber networks and has developed one of the ten most interconnected IP backbones in the world.  tw telecom has the national capability, robust product portfolio and national/local customer care teams to support mission critical enterprise and government agency applications and to deliver the most sought after customer experience in the industry.

About tw telecom
tw telecom holdings inc., a unit of tw telecom inc., headquartered in Littleton, Colo., provides managed network services, specializing in business Ethernet and transport data networking, Internet access, local and long distance voice, VoIP, VPN and security, to enterprise organizations and communications services companies throughout the U.S., and globally.  As a leading provider of integrated and converged network

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