• Detariffing
    Posted: 09/2000 Detariffing New Rules Pave the Way for Customer Contracts By Neil S. EndeOver the last 20 years, a feeling has grown that tariffs are antiquated and do more harm than good. The FCC's new regulatory regime eases this feeling by requiring customer contracts ...More
    September 1, 2000 By Neil Ende
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  • End-to-End IP Vision Comes Into Focus
    Posted: 09/2000 End-to-End IP Vision Comes Into Focus By Charlotte Wolter A carrier's carrier that takes traffic nationwide from customer premises to customer premises, all on the same network?That would be a rare prize today, but a number of new carriers and established ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Bottom Line: Don't Get Caught Web of Taxation
    Posted: 09/2000 Don't Get Caught Web of Taxation By A. Dale Currie Jr. and Bob GeppertWhen Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott wrote, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave," it was a philosophical thought regarding people's deceptive practices during the early 1800s.Of ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Agency Channel: Agents Work the Web
    Posted: 09/2000 Agents Work the Web By Tara SealsThe digital age has arrived with great fanfare. The resulting shift to data-centric carrier strategies has given network services agents a wide array of Internet-related products and services to sell into the small and ...More
    September 1, 2000 By Tara Seals
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  • The Pitch: New Tricks of the 10-10-XXX Trade
    Posted: 09/2000 New Tricks of the 10-10-XXX Trade By Khali HendersonWith day parts, fees and free tie-ins, marketing consumer long-distance services could be considered somewhat of a black art--exemplified in no small measure by dial-around services. Almost magically, ...More
    September 1, 2000 By Khali Henderson
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  • Regulatory News - FCC's Payphone Payment Plan Stands
    Posted:  09/2000 FCC's Payphone Payment Plan Stands By Kim SunderlandThe United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (www.ca11.uscourts.gov) has upheld the FCC's (www.fcc.gov) "Per Call Compensation Plan" rate calculation of 24 cents per call.The ruling ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Florida Contract Creates Wholesaler Network
    Posted: 09/2000 Florida Contract Creates Wholesaler Network By Kim SunderlandFlorida Fiber Networks Inc. (www.ffn.cc), a newly developed dark fiber company in the Orlando area, signed a contract with the Florida Department of Transportation (www.dot.state.fl.us), in ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Carriers, Corvis Achieve Optical Networking Milestones
    Posted: 09/2000 Carriers, Corvis Achieve Optical Networking MilestonesWith news reports appearing that say particle physicists claim they have broken the speed of light by accelerating light pulses 300 times their normal velocity, the applications of such a breakthrough are ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Regulatory News - Consumers Dazed & Confused About Long Distance
    Posted:  09/2000 Consumers Dazed & Confused About Long Distance By Kim SunderlandA 28-state investigation has determined a sharp rise in consumer long-distance complaints is due largely to confusing telephone bills, state regulators say.Specifically, consumer ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Intellectual Capital
    Posted: 09/2000 Intellectual Capital Evslin Owes Success to 'Smart Lucky' By Ken Branson Vital Stats Name: Tom Evslin Title: Chairman, Founder and CEO Company: ITXC Corp. Air Miles Logged: 200K+ annually Pleasures: Travel, Reading, Scuba Philosophy: The reasonable man sees ...More
    September 1, 2000
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