• Trading Desk: Band-X Acquires German Exchange
    Posted: 02/2001 Band-X Acquires German Exchange Band-X Ltd. (www.band-x.com), the London-based virtual market for international telecom wholesale capacity, has acquired Hanse-X (www.hanse-x.com), a switched minute traffic exchange in Germany. Hanse-X, which offers a ...More
    February 1, 2001
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  • Stock Watch
    Posted: 02/2001 Stock Watch Markets Shed Buoyancy Stocks tanked on the last day of our trading session (Dec. 15), as software giant Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) caused some jitters with an earnings warning. A report from the U.S. Department of Labor (www.dol.gov) ...More
    February 1, 2001
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  • Self-Directed Solutions
    Posted: 02/2001 Self-Directed Solutions Customer Service Ills Hinder Telecom Online Buying By Becky Bracken Telecommunications service providers haven't mastered selling services online, even though customers want to move purchasing and service management to the Internet. ...More
    February 1, 2001
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  • Kai Eng Drives Intelligent Packets to Break the Bottleneck
    Posted: 02/2001 Kai Eng Drives Intelligent Packets to Break the Bottleneck By Bruce Christian Vital Stats Name: Kai Y. Eng Title: Founder, president and CEO Company: Village Networks Inc. Hobbies: Skiing, running, swimming and bridge. Management Philosophy: Integrity. ...More
    February 1, 2001
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  • Wholesale: BLECs Cautioned: Know Your Tenants Before Playing with Fiber
    Posted: 02/2001 BLECs Cautioned: Know Your Tenants Before Playing with Fiber By Josh Long In a nation where copper and incumbents reign, unlighted fiber can satiate in-building carriers starving for savvy applications and the flexibility to layer enhanced services in the ...More
    February 1, 2001
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  • E-Channel: News Briefs
    Posted: 02/2001 News Briefs * Boston Communications Group Inc. (www.bcgi.net), a provider of prepaid services to wireless carriers in the United States, announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate its transaction processing platform with iATMglobal's ...More
    February 1, 2001
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  • Wholesale: Level 3 Tops $2 Billion in Dark Fiber Sales
    Posted: 02/2001 Level 3 Tops $2 Billion in Dark Fiber Sales By Josh Long In a cash-parched market, Level 3 Communications Inc. (www.level3.com) complemented its $5 billion portfolio of available cash through year 2000 sales of dark fiber and related services valued at more ...More
    February 1, 2001
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  • Regulatory News - Competitors Jam BellSouth's, Verizon's Foward Movement
    Posted: 02/2001 Competitors Jam BellSouth's, Verizon's Foward Movement By Kim Sunderland East Coast Bell operating companies BellSouth Corp. (www.bellsouth.com) and Verizon Communications (www.verizon.com) remain snarled in competitive jams that are holding up their ...More
    February 1, 2001
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  • Regulatory News - Qwest Views Opening Markets as Business Opportunity
    Posted: 02/2001 Qwest Views Opening Markets as Business Opportunity By Amy Trautman The battle lines were set for local telecommunications service competition, when President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The bill was packaged with promises of more ...More
    February 1, 2001
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  • Preying on Service Providers
    Posted: 02/2001 Preying on Service Providers Packet Pushers Eager for Carrier Migration to IP By Bruce Christian The migratory habits of legacy carriers and other service providers are being studied closely by vendors who increasingly are eager to prey on the industry's ...More
    February 1, 2001
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