• Wholesale: Deals Energize Carrier's Carriers
    Posted: 10/2000 Deals Energize Carrier's Carriers By Khali Henderson With extensive rights of way and fiber networks, energy companies are not new to the carrier's carrier business, but deals announced in August will supercharge several players' wholesale telecommunications ...More
    October 1, 2000 By Khali Henderson
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  • Wholesale: DSL Provider Stays Course
    Posted: 10/2000 DSL Provider Stays Course By Khali Henderson and Ken Branson Following the merger of its wholesale DSL business with that of megacarrier Verizon Communications (www.verizon.com), NorthPoint Communications Group Inc. (www.northpoint.net) expects to bolster ...More
    October 1, 2000 By Khali Henderson
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  • Opcenter: Diagnosis: Advanced Billing Disease
    Posted: 10/2000 Diagnosis: Advanced Billing Disease By Chris GarifoThe good news is your company has runaway subscriber growth, and it's days away from rolling out a suite of advanced services. The bad news is its billing system is on the verge of reaching its maximum ...More
    October 1, 2000
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  • Trading Desk: News Briefs
    Posted: 10/2000 News Briefs *TFS Energy LLC, the result of the recent merger between Tradition Financial Services Inc. (www.tfsbrokers.com) and the former New York energy group of Sakura Dellsher Inc., has announced the formation of TFS Telecom, a division of TFS Energy ...More
    October 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Adds, Moves & Changes
    Posted: 10/2000 Adds, Moves & Changes* Paul B. Domorski has been appointed president and CEO of RSL Communications Ltd. (www.rslcom.com), succeeding Itzhak Fisher, who remains as a consultant to the company's board of directors.Domorski had been president of British ...More
    October 1, 2000
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  • Not Necessarily News
    Posted: 10/2000 Overheard ... ... at an industry slamming implementation forum at the FCC..."You have keys to your own jail. You will make it harder if you slam--easier if you don't. I think of this as an opportunity for the carriers and state and federal regulators to act ...More
    October 1, 2000
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  • David Huber: The Joy of Seeing the Vision Through
    Posted: 10/2000 David Huber: The Joy of Seeing the Vision Through By Ken Branson The vision of an all-optical network, unaided and unencumbered by electronics, did not originate with David Huber. But he's held on to it for an awfully long time--since he finished graduate ...More
    October 1, 2000
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  • Regulatory News - Florida Regulators, Industry Spread Broadband Plan
    Posted: 10/2000 Florida Regulators, Industry Spread Broadband Plan Kim SunderlandFlorida Fiber Networks Inc. (www.ffn.cc), a newly developed dark-fiber company in the Orlando area, is a company the FCC (www.fcc.gov) loves to love.FFN signed a contract this summer with ...More
    October 1, 2000
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  • Wholesale: Personal ASPs Seek Telco Distributors
    Posted: 10/2000 Personal ASPs Seek Telco Distributors By Khali HendersonApplications hosting is not just for enterprises--at least that's what a handful of startups would have you believe. These so-called "personal ASPs" and their backers are banking consumers will ...More
    October 1, 2000 By Khali Henderson
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  • Wholesale: Deals Energize Carrier's Carriers
    Posted: 10/2000 Evolution Networks Bets on Wholesale Demand By Ken BransonEric Ensor thinks a lot about places like Albany, N.Y., and Valdosta, Ga., these days. Cities like those--not necessarily those cities--are where Ensor and his colleagues expect to lead Evolution ...More
    October 1, 2000
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