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Alteva Cuts Jobs

The cuts come amid some other significant, recent changes for the UC provider. ...read more

Justifying Security Spending

This Business Value Toolbox video offers a number of tips to help businesses get a return on their security investment. ...read more

Targeting Vertical Markets w/ Cable

This Pulse Digital Issue highlights five industry sectors – financial services, health care, hospitality, restaurants and bars, and retail – that are ...read more

The Most Satisfying Cellphone Vendors

Are consumers finally turning against Apple? The maker of the iconic iPhone watched its customer-satisfaction score – according to the American ...read more

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Dear Sir, In your experience, what are the most reliable and trusted Internet marketing methods which would best serve to bring in qualified business leads to our independent communications consultancy? We have direct and reseller contracts with many major vendors, but ...More
June 1, 2004
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Level 3 Set to Offers Turnkey Partner Services Level 3 Communications Inc. is gearing up to offer turnkey partner support services in third quarter for its (3)Tone Business VoIP services. The turnkey services are an expansion of the company's Level(3)Enabled partner program ...More
June 1, 2004 By Khali Henderson
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AT&T Corp. is offering consumer broadband service in 11 additional states for a total of 25 states in which the No. 1 long-distance provider offers DSL as part of a package of residential services. The new states are Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, ...More
June 1, 2004
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Game Over for UNE-P?

To say that CLECs have had a difficult time would be an understatement by anyone's standards. Following meteoric rises in valuation on the heels of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, stock market declines and restricted market penetration led to a shakeout that ultimately ...More
June 1, 2004
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- MCI marked a fresh start as it emerged April 20 from the biggest bankruptcy case in U.S. history. The No. 2 longdistance phone company declared bankruptcy two years ago, disclosing about $11 billion in accounting fraud. The company has replaced its board of directors and ...More
June 1, 2004
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IP VPNs Ready for Take Off

IP virtual private networks (VPN) are the Lear Jets of the networking world: They make sure offices, departments, telecommuters or employees on the road with broadband access can travel safely across the public Internet by using secure, encrypted tunnels to open up private ...More
June 1, 2004 By Tara Seals
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All 4 One: Master Agencies Merge

Three master agencies - UteleSys, Communications Industries and Telelink Communications - have come together to form X4 Communications LLC, consolidating carrier commitments and back offices to improve commissions and efficiencies for their subagents. The new company ...More
June 1, 2004
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Lending Voice to Ethernet

The LAN protocol Ethernet long ago infiltrated the metro as service providers sought to provide seamless data networks to their enterprise customers. Now, those same networks are being updated to handle the QoS requirements of voice and video. BellSouth Interconnection ...More
June 1, 2004 By Khali Henderson
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Net Tax Ban Nears

The U.S. Senate has voted 93-3 to extend a ban on state and local taxation of Internet access, including cable-modem service and DSL for four years, but the bill does not prevent local governments from taxing Internet-based phone service. The Senate must work out ...More
June 1, 2004
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- LDMI Telecommunications is launching ConnecT, the company's new allinclusive, low-priced Internet service, available to authorized LDMI agents. ConnecT will provide dedicated Internet access at speeds of up to 1.536Mbps, up to five IP addresses and 20 e-mail accounts as ...More
June 1, 2004
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