{"id":1717,"date":"2009-12-11T15:46:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2009-12-11T15:46:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:46:30","slug":"branson-tech-team-achieves-certification-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2009\/12\/11\/branson-tech-team-achieves-certification-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Branson Tech Team Achieves Certification Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRANSON, Mo. (Dec. 11, 2009) \u2013 Suddenlink announced today that 100 percent of its local broadband technicians and supervisors have earned one or more professional certifications from the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE). <\/p>\n

In addition to Suddenlink\u2019s own comprehensive training program, the company launched an initiative called \u201cCareerlink\u201d last year to help its technical workforce nationwide achieve SCTE certifications, boosting and confirming their knowledge and skills for installation and service of television, Internet and phone. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to maintain the most highly trained and respected group of broadband technicians anywhere in the industry,\u201d said Andy Parrott, Corporate Vice President of Technical Operations, who helped create and oversees the administration of \u201cCareerlink\u201d among other responsibilities. \u201cWe\u2019re convinced that goal is directly related to the progress we have made \u2013 and will continue to make \u2013 in improving customers\u2019 experience with Suddenlink.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suddenlink (www.suddenlink.com) is among the 10 largest cable broadband companies in the United States, supporting the information, communication and entertainment demands of approximately 1.3 million residential customers and thousands of commercial customers in Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia, and elsewhere. Suddenlink simplifies its customers\u2019 lives through one call for support, one connection, and one bill for TV, Internet, phone, and other services.<\/p>\n

The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (www.scte.org) is a professional association that provides technical leadership for the cable telecommunications industry, serving its members for 40 years through professional development, standards, certification, and information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BRANSON, Mo. (Dec. 11, 2009) \u2013 Suddenlink announced today that 100 percent of its local broadband technicians and supervisors have earned one or more professional certifications from the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE). In addition to Suddenlink\u2019s own comprehensive training program, the company launched an initiative called \u201cCareerlink\u201d last year to help its technical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}