• Regulatory News - Access Charge Reform Benefits Almost All
    Posted:  08/2000 Access Charge Reform Benefits Almost All By Kim Sunderland "We are disappointed that the commission's order did not address key issues facing resale carriers and their customers."Ernest B. Kelly III, president, Association of Communications Enterprises ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • Business News - ADDS, MOVES & CHANGES
    Posted: 08/2000 ADDS, MOVES & CHANGESSprint PCS president and COO Andrew Sukawaty has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Ronald T. LeMay, president and COO of Sprint Corp. (www.sprint.com), will replace him on an interim basis. Sukawaty, 44, acted as a ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • Opcenter: Collocators Do Carriers' Cyberlifting
    Posted: 08/2000 Collocators Do Carriers' Cyberlifting By Ken BransonIf, as the conventional industry wisdom holds, you can't have too much bandwidth, then a corollary is this: You can't have too much collocation space.Collocation used to be a simple matter of putting a ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • Regulatory News - Billions Needed to Put Broadband into Rural Areas
    Posted:  08/2000 Billions Needed to Put Broadband into Rural Areas By Kim SunderlandIt will cost $10.9 billion to deploy broadband facilities to rural areas throughout the United States, according to a new marketing study the National Exchange Carrier Association Inc. ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • News Briefs
    Posted: 08/2000 News Briefs * Williams Communications (www.williamscommunications.com) will provide switched-voice services on its nationwide fiber optic network to Norstar Communications (www.norstarcom.com), a privately held long-distance voice and Internet service ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • Whole New Ball Game
    Posted: 08/2000 Whole New Ball Game By James R. Dukart Today's prepaid services are about a lot more than phone cards for voice calls.Gone are the days when prepaid telephony was a matter of buying access, printing phone cards and calculating time and distance usage against ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • Opcenter: Competitors Seek Building Access
    Posted: 08/2000 Competitors Seek Building Access By Kim SunderlandCompetitors have unleashed a revised effort to quell problems they encounter in gaining access into commercial and multitenant buildings by asking federal regulators to adopt laws that would require building ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • The Pitch: Targeting Callers with e-Mail Marketing
    Posted: 08/2000 Targeting Callers with e-Mail Marketing By Tara Seals International Data Corp. (www.idc.com) estimates there are 400 million online mailboxes worldwide--all potential destinations for an e-mail marketing message. But experts say getting results is not as ...More
    August 1, 2000 By Tara Seals
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  • Bottom Line: Moving to Zero-Burden Tax Regime
    Posted: 08/2000 Moving to Zero-Burden Tax Regime By George Abi-EsberTelecom services are generally subject to a multitude of transactional taxes as well as complex and burdensome sales and use tax administration systems. In addition to the 45 states (and the District of ...More
    August 1, 2000
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  • SBC Long Distance Boot Scoots into Texas
    Posted: 08/2000 SBC Long Distance Boot Scoots into Texas Competition Gets All Bundled Up By Kim SunderlandBy Kim SunderlandThere's a new kid in the long-distance business in Texas and she ain't foolin' around. SBC Communications Inc. (www.sbc.com) landed approval this ...More
    August 1, 2000
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