• Regulatory News - Bell Atlantic's OSS Problems Spill Out of N.Y.
    Posted:  05/2000 It's a Broadband Bonanza By Kim SunderlandIn the telecommunications world, maybe Capitol Hill should be referred to as Broadband Hill.With five pending pro-Bell broadband bills seeking resolution, the issue continues to simmer as the ILECs hold fast to ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • Pay Phone Market Embraces Initiatives to Spark Rebirth
    Posted: 05/2000 Pay Phone Market Embraces Initiatives to Spark Rebirth An Endangered Species? By John S. BainSome major events may be in the offing for the pay phone industry, which, if successful, would send a message to practitioners and investors not to write this ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • Agency Channel: Agents Need to Seek, Sell the Best, Brightest
    Posted: 05/2000 Agents Need to Seek, Sell the Best, Brightest By Kathy KatcherIn my business, I need to ask every day whether the telecommunications products we showcase are the best and the brightest in our industry.Obviously, if they're not, no one will want to sell them. ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Power Companies Form New Carrier; Look for a CEO and Other Pros
    Posted: 05/2000 Power Companies Form New Carrier; Look for a CEO and Other Pros By Ken BransonTake 4,200 route miles of optical fiber, two small telecom companies and six power companies, and what do you have? According to those companies, you have the makings of a regional ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • A Friend in Need or a Friend in Greed?
    Posted: 05/2000 A Friend in Need or a Friend in Greed?A friend, I am told, is worth more than pure gold.Popeye, "Popeye the Sailor Man"In a recent coincidence, Popeye's reference to pure gold could be interpreted to mean shares of stock at exactly the right time.Reported ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Bell Atlantic Offers Gateway Services to Internet Carriers
    Posted: 05/2000 Bell Atlantic Offers Gateway Services to Internet Carriers By Stacy Lane LinkmeyerBell Atlantic Corp. (www.bell-atl.com) has announced a gateway service that provides completion of phone calls made via IP data networks."The platform will serve multiple ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Industry Leaders Create First Telecom ASP Portal
    Posted: 05/2000 Industry Leaders Create First Telecom ASP PortalIpx Inc. (www.ipx-inc.com), a VoIP clearinghouse, has introduced T-Portal, a group of international telecommunications companies committed to advance new technologies."We are creating the first Applications ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • Overheard ...
    Posted: 05/2000 Overheard ...... at the AgENt Conference & Expo, March 26-28 in Las Vegas... "For agents affiliate marketing is the hottest, greatest thing on the web today. The two most powerful words that must be on your website: 'CLICK HERE'" --Len Bailey is vice ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • Business News - BUSINESS NEWS
    Posted: 05/2000 BUSINESS NEWSTeleCon, InformationView Enter Teaming AgreementTeleCon LLC (www.teleconllc.com) and InformationView Corp. (www.informationview.com) have signed an agreement for TeleConSB, a division of TeleCon LLC, to use InformationView's applications as one ...More
    May 1, 2000
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  • What's in a Name?
    Posted: 05/2000 Growing Wireless Appetite Following the Land of Pasta, Pizza, Pesto and Prepaid?The land of pasta, pizza and pesto is full of prepaid wireless subscribers. Some 15.2 million Italians--74 percent of all Italian wireless subscribers--prepay their wireless ...More
    May 1, 2000
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