• Local - Western Union Unveils 'SwiftPay' Program
    Posted: 06/2000 Western Union Unveils 'SwiftPay' ProgramWestern Union introduced "SwiftPay" earlier this year to take cash payments for local prepaid service, and the money wire company feels the program has immense potential.When a consumer prepays for monthly ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Wireless - Texas Pacific Group Invests in Gemplus
    Posted: 06/2000 Texas Pacific Group Invests in GemplusTexas Pacific Group, an international private equity firm, will invest between $300 and $500 million in equity into Gemplus (www.gemplus.com), a provider of smart card-based solutions and technologies.Texas Pacific Group ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Business News - It's a DSL Life,Forum Campaign Says
    Posted: 06/2000 It's a DSL Life,Forum Campaign SaysDSL Forum (www.adsl.com), a nonprofit organization of more than 300 global telecommunications industry leaders and service and equipment providers, unveiled its Mindshare Awareness Campaign promoting the benefits of DSL ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • News Briefs
    Posted: 06/2000 News Briefs * The carrier services division of Global Crossing Ltd. (www.globalcrossing.com) is offering wholesale customers optical wavelengths at OC-48 speeds (2.5 gbps) in major cities throughout the North American Crossing network. The offer matches ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Long Distance - IDT Opens Debit Center in Dublin
    Posted: 06/2000 IDT Opens Debit Center in DublinIDT Corp. (www.idt.net) has opened its debit operations center in Dublin to oversee the design, manufacture and printing of IDT Europe's prepaid calling and debit cards for its growing European clientele base.The Dublin staff ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Industry News - AMS Announces Prepaid Solution
    Posted: 06/2000 AMS Announces Prepaid Solution American Management Systems Inc. (www.amsinc.com), an international business and information technology consulting firm, recently introduced INAdvance, a convergent prepaid solution for the telecommunications industry.Available ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Regulatory, Competitive Challenges Facing Local Prepaid
    Posted: 06/2000 Regulatory, Competitive Challenges Facing Local Prepaid By Glenn S. Richards, Esq., and David S. Konczal, Esq. Prepaid local carriers are growing in scope and number. In many ways, the prepaid local industry represents everything Congress envisioned in ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Stock Watch - Market Battered on High Inflation Numbers
    Posted: 06/2000 Market Battered on High Inflation NumbersCash flew out of Wall Street at the end of our trading session after the government's Consumer Price Index's core rate jumped by 0.4 percent, double what economists had expected. It also was the largest gain in five ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Local - 1-800-RECONEX Offers Wholesale Program
    Posted: 06/2000 1-800-RECONEX Offers Wholesale Program1-800-RECONEX launched a wholesale program earlier this year for companies that want to get into the prepaid local dial tone business but don't have the expertise or the resources to do it effectively.As a prepaid ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Carrier Channel: News Briefs
    Posted: 06/2000 News Briefs* BTI Telecom Corp. (www.btitele.com), an ISP in the southeastern United States, has activated its Atlanta-to-Nashville segment of its planned 3,700-mile network of continuous long-haul fiber.BTI also has expanded its fiber network with an ...More
    June 1, 2000
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