Road Runner Eyes Telecommuting
By Karen Brown -- Multichannel News, 2/11/2003 4:27:00 AM
Time Warner Cable's Road Runner business unit has kicked off a new initiative to help business employees get to work via the high-speed Internet.
Prompted by the U.S. Congress' call to encourage telecommuting, the Road Runner "Business Class Internet Service" will team up with Teletrips Inc., an emissions-reduction tracker, to make it more attractive for workers to get the job done at home. Businesses, in turn, gain emission credits that they can cash in.
The program allows Road Runner business customers to record how many times they avoided a trip into the office on the teletrips.com Web site (www.teletrips.com ). Teletrips then calculates total emission credits for the company and finds the best price on the U.S. stationary-emissions-trading market.
"We've put together a strategic partnership that makes telecommuting more attractive for business than ever," said Ken Fitzpatrick, senior vice president for commercial services at Road Runner, in a release.
"Road Runner provides the entire range of secure, high-speed broadband services that corporations need for telework programs, including file sharing, and videoconferencing, while Teletrips provides the facility for measuring, validating and profiting from the resulting emission reductions," he added.
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