• Agency Channel: Taking Stock in Equity
    Posted: 08/2000 Taking Stock in Equity By Tara SealsThe unveiling of several landmark equity programs for agents two years ago sparked optimism and frenzied contract signings. But the resellers that pioneered the concept still have not fully executed their business ...More
    August 1, 2000 By Tara Seals
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  • Resale Channel: ATM Added to Wholesale Data Lineup
    Posted: 08/2000 ATM Added to Wholesale Data Lineup By Khali HendersonThe big daddy of the data world, ATM service, is being sold by major network operators on a wholesale basis to carrier customers as a cost-effective backbone-building strategy. With the expanding data ...More
    August 1, 2000 By Khali Henderson
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  • Regulatory News - FCC's 25 Conditions to Ensure Open Competition
    Posted:  08/2000 FCC's 25 Conditions to Ensure Open CompetitionSeparate Affiliate for Advanced Services. Bell Atlantic/GTE will create separate affiliates to provide all advanced services in the combined region. Surrogate Line Sharing Discount. Bell Atlantic/GTE will ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • The Man Who Knows Too Much
    Posted: 08/2000 CASP Powered Carriers Plug Into Private-Branded Enhanced Services By Khali HendersonCommunications services--the enhanced IP-based ones--have not escaped the widening grip of the emerging hosted applications delivery model. Communications ASPs, or CASPs, are ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • Eurocarrier, Excluded
    IN-BOX Eurocarrier, ExcludedAfter reading your article, "If You Build It ... They Will Come: Pan-European Network Growth Accelerates as the Yanks Move In" (PHONE+ International, May 15, page 28), I was surprised, amazed and disappointed that NETs (www.netsgroup.com) was not ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Free Service Torch Continues to Burn
    Posted: 08/2000 Free Service Torch Continues to Burn By Chris GarifoThe free service model continues to grow beyond its ad-supported Internet access roots to include other IP-based services, including PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone long-distance, e-mail and unified messaging ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • Telecommodities Indices - DS-3 Bandwidth Pricing Up 16 Percent From All-Time Low
    Posted: 08/2000 DS-3 Bandwidth Pricing Up 16 Percent From All-Time Low The RTBX*RPI tracks the current weighted average price of coast-to-coast DS-3 pricing. The June 2000 price ($26,858) is 16 percent higher than the January 2000 price ($23,250). The January 2000 price was ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • Agency Channel: Taking Stock in Equity
    Posted: 08/2000 News Briefs * Startup IP service provider Igaea (www.igaea.com) is establishing stateside and international agent programs to bring its services to market. Igaea will offer phone-to-phone IP products and services including long distance, fax over IP, ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • Business News - GRICtalk Puts Carriers in Global PC-to-Phone Business
    Posted: 08/2000 GRICtalk Puts Carriers in Global PC-to-Phone Business By Khali HendersonGRIC Communications Inc. (www.gric.com) unveiled in late June GRICtalk to enable ISPs, Internet telephony service providers (ITSPs) and telecommunications service providers to offer ...More
    August 1, 2000 By Khali Henderson
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  • No Carrier Is an Island
    Posted: 08/2000 No Carrier Is an IslandA n identifiable shift is occurring in the way business is conducted today, EDS (www.eds.com) chairman and CEO Dick Brown said during his keynote address at the June SUPERCOMM 2000 in Atlanta."Communities of companies will triumph over ...More
    August 1, 2000
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