• E-Channel: E-Markets Empower Buyers with RFQ Process
    Posted: 11/2000 E-Markets Empower Buyers with RFQ Process By Bruce Christian Having the right to choosewithout being subject to high-pressure, faceless telemarketers or one-on-one meetings with agents desperately seeking salesgives power to the buyer. Empowering buyers with ...More
    November 1, 2000
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  • Agency Channel: Master Agent Streamlines the Henry Ford Museum
    Posted: 11/2000 Master Agent Streamlines the Henry Ford Museum By Tara Seals Master agent and consulting firm Telecom Holdings Inc. (www.phoncheck.com) captured a long-term customer with its all-inclusive, can-do strategy at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. This summer ...More
    November 1, 2000 By Tara Seals
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  • Prepaid VoIP: The Final FrontierPrepaid VoIP: The Final Frontier
    Posted: 11/2000 Prepaid VoIP: The Final Frontier Enhanced Services Bring Prepaid into the Future By Tara Seals Prepaid providers have been chugging along in their earthbound, PSTN-switched way since calling cards emerged in the early 1990s. But things appear ready to ...More
    November 1, 2000 By Tara Seals
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  • Wholesale: Survey: DSL Wholesalers Get Mixed Reviews
    Posted: 11/2000 Survey: DSL Wholesalers Get Mixed Reviews By Judy Reed Smith and Nick Regas DSL. It was a brilliant idea: Widen the bandwidth spectrum over the same copper wire that telephones already use enabling data and voice data to travel simultaneously at high speeds. ...More
    November 1, 2000
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  • VoDSL: Ready For Prime Time
    Posted: 11/2000 VoDSL: Ready For Prime Time By Stefan Knight By Stefan Knight VoDSL is coming of age as carriers are rolling out services throughout the United States. Among the carriers who have entered this growing market are Focal Communications Corp. (www.focal.com) ...More
    November 1, 2000
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  • Trading Desk: News Briefs
    Posted: 11/2000 News Briefs * To guide its expansion in North America, the Asia Capacity Exchange Ltd. (ACE, www.ace-asia.com) has appointed Andrew Lipman to its board of directors. Lipman is vice chairman of Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman LLP (www.swidlaw.com) and senior ...More
    November 1, 2000
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  • Stock Watch
    Posted: 11/2000 Stock Watch Stocks Hammered by High Energy Costs The U.S. market dropped at the end of our trading session (Sept. 15), clobbered by worries that sharply higher oil prices will eat into corporate profits. Europe's weak single currency, the euro, added to ...More
    November 1, 2000
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  • Business News - JD Services Files for Bankruptcy; VoCall CEO to Challenge Bankruptcy Petition
    Posted: 11/2000 JD Services Files for Bankruptcy; VoCall CEO to Challenge Bankruptcy Petition By Josh Long JD Services Inc., a provider of cellular, pre-paid, and long-distance products and services, filed for bankruptcy in September under Chapter 7 in the U.S. Bankruptcy ...More
    November 1, 2000
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  • Wholesale: Empire One Builds New Wholesale Offer
    Posted: 11/2000 Empire One Builds New Wholesale Offer By Khali Henderson Just when many emerging carriers are shrinking or abandoning their wholesale activities, retail carrier Empire One Telecommunications Inc. (www.eot.net) is getting into the game with the mid-September ...More
    November 1, 2000
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  • Agency Channel: News Briefs
    Posted: 11/2000 News Briefs * Excel Communications Inc. (www.excel.com), a subsidiary of Teleglobe Inc. (www. teleglobe.com) has rolled out "MyExcel" Internet access to its agents. MyExcel is bundled with the "ishopExcel" online retail shopping service. ...More
    November 1, 2000
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