• Wireless - GTIC, ICE Develop Sports Commemorative Prepaid Cards
    Posted: 06/2000 GTIC, ICE Develop Sports Commemorative Prepaid CardsGlobal Telephone Communication Inc. (www.globaltci.com) has recently entered into a joint venture with International Communications Enterprises Ltd. (ICE) of London, to develop and distribute promotional ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Aerie Plans $3.5 Billion Broadband Backbone Challenge
    Posted: 06/2000 Aerie Plans $3.5 Billion Broadband Backbone Challenge By Gail LawyerLevel 3 Communications Inc. (www.level3.com) and Qwest Communications International Inc. (www.qwest.com) better watch out.There's a new company in town, and it plans to build a national ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Overheard ...
    Posted: 06/2000 Overheard ...... discussing the future of local resale ..."I think it is too early to say it will completely go away. But the LECs are slow moving. As different technologies push them, as DSL pushes them, integrated access pushes them on local access, as a ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Cutting-Edge Printing--From Utility to Novelty
    Posted: 06/2000 Cutting-Edge Printing--From Utility to Novelty By Tara SealsWhen prepaid phone cards first appeared in 1993 in the U.S. market, printers greeted the lucrative new trend with offers to laminate cards with four layers of baked plastic. The result was a ...More
    June 1, 2000 By Tara Seals
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  • A Taxing Situation
    Posted: 06/2000 A Taxing Situation IRS, State Collection Methods Become Clearer By Gary T. RhodusWhile clarity is appearing in the application, there is a fundamental lack of appreciation for what the changes mean to the prepaid service provider. The service provider will ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • What's in a Name?
    Posted: 05/2000 What's in a Name? Evolving Industry Demands Modifying Moniker By Khali Henderson The Board of Directors of the Telecommunica-tions Resellers Association (www.tra.org) has proposed changing the name of the eight- year-old group to the Association of ...More
    May 1, 2000 By Khali Henderson
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  • Regulatory News - Bell Atlantic's OSS Problems Spill Out of N.Y.
    Posted:  05/2000 Congress, FCC Move to Opposite Corners on Reorganization BY KIM SUNDERLANDThe debate on Capitol Hill over revamping the FCC (www.fcc.gov) has become relentless. No end is in sight as Congress heads into the waning months prior to the presidential ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • Carrier Channel: News Briefs
    Posted: 05/2000 News BriefsRecent Fiber Deals* US LEC Corp. (www.uslec.com) has completed the installation of its Lucent Technologies Inc. (www.lucent.com) 5ESS AnyMedia digital switch in Baltimore, continuing the company's growth into Bell Atlantic Corp. (www.bell-atl.com) ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • Telecommodities Indices - Bandwidth Indices Revised, Upward Trend Continues
    Posted: 05/2000 Bandwidth Indices Revised, Upward Trend Continuess carriers introduce additional East-West routes, we have revised the Real-Time Bandwidth Exchange*Revealed Price Index (RTBX*RPI) to reflect the changing market. The revisions did not affect the general trend ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • Date Book
    Posted: 06/2000 Date Book JUNE4-8 SUPERCOMM 2000 Atlanta +1 800 278 7372 www.supercomm2000.com5-7 Intele-Card Expo 2000 Miami Beach, Fla. +1 800 883 8353, ext. 127 www.intelecard.com14-16 IBC USA's 3G Mobile Chicago +1 508 616 5550 www.ibcusa.com19-22 VON Europe 2000 ...More
    May 1, 2000
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