XO Communications (www.xo.com), a telecommunications carrier, announced on September 27, 2004 that the recent re-launch of its Concentric hosting brand (www.concentric.com) demonstrated better results than the company has expected and XO looked forward to continue growing. The company said that it has added several features into the Concentric set of hosting services since its start such as junk e-mail filtering, PayPal payment services and a site builder tool, created to allow customers to build their own websites easily. XO added that according to its data, 75 percent of its customers were using the integrated junk e-mail filtering, 71 percent of accounts also bought a domain name and 9 percent of accounts were using the integrated Web Builder tool.
Barbara Branaman, vice president and general manager of XO’s hosting business unit, said that the company was extremely pleased with its launch results. She noted that since re-launching of the concentric brand XO has been focused on delivering reliable and cost effective hosting solutions to today’s growing businesses. Branaman added that XO was continually learning from its customers to ensure that the company was servicing their unique needs now and in the future.
