• Regulatory News - Consumers Dazed & Confused About Long Distance
    Posted:  09/2000 Consumers Dazed & Confused About Long Distance By Kim SunderlandA 28-state investigation has determined a sharp rise in consumer long-distance complaints is due largely to confusing telephone bills, state regulators say.Specifically, consumer ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Net2Phone, Microsoft Collaborate on Free Long Distance
    Posted: 09/2000 Net2Phone, Microsoft Collaborate on Free Long DistanceNet2Phone Inc.'s (www.net2phone.com) PC-based client software has been integrated into the latest version Microsoft Corp.'s MSN (www.msn.com) Messenger Service 3.0, released July 21, allowing users to ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Florida Contract Creates Wholesaler Network
    Posted: 09/2000 Florida Contract Creates Wholesaler Network By Kim SunderlandFlorida Fiber Networks Inc. (www.ffn.cc), a newly developed dark fiber company in the Orlando area, signed a contract with the Florida Department of Transportation (www.dot.state.fl.us), in ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Intellectual Capital
    Posted: 09/2000 Intellectual Capital Evslin Owes Success to 'Smart Lucky' By Ken Branson Vital Stats Name: Tom Evslin Title: Chairman, Founder and CEO Company: ITXC Corp. Air Miles Logged: 200K+ annually Pleasures: Travel, Reading, Scuba Philosophy: The reasonable man sees ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Telecommodities Indices - Bandwidth Price Remains Stable
    Posted: 08/2000 Bandwidth Price Remains Stable The July 2000 price for DS-3 bandwidth, $26,858, did not change from the June price. In fact, since April, the price fluctuation has been stable, ranging from $27,265 to $26,858.The difference between the high and low during ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Regulatory News - Appeals Court Remands Wireless Rate Order
    Posted:  09/2000 Appeals Court Remands Wireless Rate Order By Kim SunderlandThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (www.cadc.uscourts.gov) wants the FCC (www.fcc.gov) to take another look at requiring wireless carriers to integrate their rates and charge the ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Adds, Moves & Changes
    Posted: 09/2000 Adds, Moves & Changes* Pathnet (www.pathnet.net), a Virginia-based carrier's carrier, has appointed Ken Rowen as vice president of sales focusing on CLECs. Previously, Rowen had been with Citizens Communications (www.citizenscommunications.com), a ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Bigredwire's Revenue Model Questioned
    Posted: 09/2000 Bigredwire's Revenue Model Questioned By Chris GarifoSanta Barbara, Calif.-based bigredwire.com Pty. Ltd. (www.bigredwire.com) has launched free interstate and international circuit-switched phone-to-phone long-distance service in the United States, but the ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Resale Channel: News Briefs
    Posted: 09/2000 News Briefs Broadwing Communications, a subsidiary of Broadwing Inc. (www.broadwing.com), is the first communications carrier to provide its carrier customers 10gbps optical wavelength services. Broadwing's 17,000-mile fiber network is made up of optical ...More
    September 1, 2000
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  • Agency Channel: News Briefs
    Posted: 09/2000 News Briefs * Telegroup Inc., a Primus Company (www.telegroup.com), launched in August a new agent web portal, Telegroupbiz.com, which offers ASP solutions to help agents sell Telegroup's bundled services online. The portal offers agent-branded ASP platforms ...More
    September 1, 2000
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