• Resale Channel: Resellers View Opportunity in Document Conferencing
    Posted: 09/2000 Resellers View Opportunity in Document Conferencing By Josh MartinWholesale document conferencing is about to take off. As more companies link audio and visual conferencing, the demands for data and document sharing are growing. For wholesalers, this ...More
    September 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles
  • Business News - Global Crossing Issues GlobalCenter Tracking Stock
    Posted: 09/2000 Global Crossing Issues GlobalCenter Tracking Stock By Ken BransonGlobal Crossing Ltd. (www.globalcrossing.com) has filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov) in preparation for issuing a tracking stock for its GlobalCenter ...More
    September 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles
  • Stocks Seesaw on Interest Rate Woes
    Posted: 09/2000 Economy Slows May Spell End to Rate HikesSigns the economy is slowing heartened Wall Street at the end of our session (July 15), as an unexpected drop in the government's Producer Price Index (PPI) renewed hope the Fed may be done with rate hikes for the ...More
    September 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles
  • Business News - High Payphone Costs Rock the Big House
    Posted: 09/2000 High Payphone Costs Rock the Big House By Kim SunderlandClass action lawsuits filed in seven states allege that high prison payphone and collect calling rates are robbing blind the people prisoners are calling.In a classic story reminiscent of "robbing Peter ...More
    September 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles
  • Business News - RBOCs Lose Their Jitters, Sign On With ITXC
    Posted: 09/2000 RBOCs Lose Their Jitters, Sign On With ITXC By Bruce ChristianThe jitters are gone, and with them ITXC Corp. (www.itxc.com), a wholesale Internet telephony carrier, has announced it now is completing RBOC-originated international phone-to-phone calls via the ...More
    September 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles
  • Business News - News Briefs
    Posted: 09/2000 News Briefs FirstWorld Faces Federal Class Action SuitA class action lawsuit filed July 18 in the U.S. District Court in Denver accuses FirstWorld Communications Inc. (www.firstworld.com) and some of its officers and directors of selling 10 million shares of ...More
    September 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles
  • Regulatory News - FCC Views Nationwide Broadband Deployment Cautiously
    Posted:  09/2000 FCC Views Nationwide Broadband Deployment Cautiously By Kim SunderlandWhile the nationwide deployment of advanced services has improved, the FCC still is concerned about pockets of communities at risk for not receiving the bounties of broadband. ...More
    September 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles
  • Business News - Long-Distance Resale Margins Up
    Posted: 09/2000 Long-Distance Resale Margins UpOperating margins are climbing for resellers of long distance, according to a survey released today by Boston-based telecommunications strategy and research firm ATLANTIC-ACM Inc. (www.atlantic-acm.com).Speaking of the ninth ...More
    September 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles
  • Carrier Channel: News Briefs
    Posted: 09/2000 News Briefs Integrated communications provider BTI Telecom Corp. (www.btitele.com) and TollBridge Technologies Inc. (www.tollbridgetech.com) have formed a partnership that will let BTI offer voice over DSL (VoDSL) services. BTI will deploy the TB200 ...More
    September 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles
  • Regulatory News - FCC's Section 271 Approval Stands on Appeal
    Posted:  09/2000 FCC's Section 271 Approval Stands on Appeal By Kim SunderlandA federal appeals court ruled the FCC (www.fcc.gov) acted within the confines of the Telecommunications Act of  1996 when it approved in December the nation's first in-region ...More
    September 1, 2000
    Posted in Articles