• PHONE+ Goes Prepaid
    Posted: 03/2000 PHONE+ Goes Prepaid It goes without saying that prepayment is a grand idea from service providers' points of view. No bad debt. No float. No wonder prepayment is becoming a more prevalent billing scheme in the telecommunications industry. Prepayment made its ...More
    March 1, 2000
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  • Identity Crisis
    Posted: 03/2000 Driven by regulation, emerging competition and strong bandwidth demand, U.S. long-distance carriers have significantly expanded their fiber optic networks over the past three years. As carriers complete national networks in 2001, building will shift to ...More
    March 1, 2000
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  • Resale Channel: News Briefs
    Posted: 03/2000 News Briefs * UniDial Communications Inc. (www.unidial.com) has awarded Focal Communications Corp. (www.focal.com) a three-year, $18 million service agreement. UniDial will resell Focal's local dial-tone services within the major metro areas it serves. In ...More
    March 1, 2000
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  • Wholesale Market Caught in Cyclone of Innovation
    Posted: 03/2000 Wholesale Market Caught in Cyclone of Innovation By David Laughland The next few years will be driven by a cyclone of innovation and a surge of new business models that will fundamentally transform the telecom wholesale market. The Internet protocol (IP) ...More
    March 1, 2000
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  • The Pitch: Lampooned Telemarketing Still Effective
    Posted: 04/2000 Unifying the Newly Merged Sales Force By Kevin Davisor a recently merged organization to achieve its growth goals, it must analyze its sales force's skills to determine what it lacks. Then it can create a unified sales force by installing a common selling ...More
    March 1, 2000
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  • U.S. East-West Bandwidth Price StabilizationContinues
    Posted: 03/2000 U.S. East-West Bandwidth Price Stabilization Continues The Real-Time Bandwidth Exchange*Revealed Price Index (RTBX*RPI), which tracks the current weighted average price of coast-to-coast DS-3 pricing, shows prices have stabilized over the past several ...More
    March 1, 2000
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  • Cha-Ching!
    Posted: 03/2000 Cha-Ching! PoS Activation Cuts Risk, Expands Marketing Options for Prepaid Communications Vendors Prepaid calling card vendors say the prepaid calling card market in general and PoSA systems in particular are booming. By James R. Dukart When teleconsumers ...More
    March 1, 2000
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  • Competitors urge FCC to approve Internet changes
    Posted:  03/2000 Competitors urge FCC to approve Internet changes KIM SUNDERLAND Although it has been a dormant issue for several months, competitors have renewed their efforts to push the FCC into permitting customer requests to change a carrier over the Internet. ...More
    March 1, 2000
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  • Lampooned Telemarketing Still Effective
    Posted: 03/2000 Lampooned Telemarketing Still Effective By Liz Montelbano Just the word "telemarketing" is enough to make anyone who's ever been disturbed by a phone solicitor on a Saturday morning or over his dinner plate recoil in horror. For telecom companies, ...More
    March 1, 2000
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  • IdentityCrisis:
    Walled In: Why IP Voice Is Held Captive (And, What Carriers, Vendors Are Doing to Set it Free) By Charlotte Wolter IP voice carriers face towering barriers between their networks, but a few chinks may be starting to appear in those walls. Identity Crisis: Should You Be A ...More
    March 1, 2000
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