• Regulatory, Competitive Challenges Facing Local Prepaid
    Posted: 06/2000 Regulatory, Competitive Challenges Facing Local Prepaid By Glenn S. Richards, Esq., and David S. Konczal, Esq. Prepaid local carriers are growing in scope and number. In many ways, the prepaid local industry represents everything Congress envisioned in ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Industry News - AMS Announces Prepaid Solution
    Posted: 06/2000 AMS Announces Prepaid Solution American Management Systems Inc. (www.amsinc.com), an international business and information technology consulting firm, recently introduced INAdvance, a convergent prepaid solution for the telecommunications industry.Available ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • News Briefs
    Posted: 06/2000 News Briefs * The carrier services division of Global Crossing Ltd. (www.globalcrossing.com) is offering wholesale customers optical wavelengths at OC-48 speeds (2.5 gbps) in major cities throughout the North American Crossing network. The offer matches ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Local - Western Union Unveils 'SwiftPay' Program
    Posted: 06/2000 Western Union Unveils 'SwiftPay' ProgramWestern Union introduced "SwiftPay" earlier this year to take cash payments for local prepaid service, and the money wire company feels the program has immense potential.When a consumer prepays for monthly ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Business News - IDT Latest Entrant in Nickel-Minute Race
    Posted: 06/2000 IDT Latest Entrant in Nickel-Minute Race By Khali HendersonAfter two months of strong in-market results, IDT Corp. (www.idt.com) launched an aggressive multimedia consumer campaign for five-cents-a-minute long-distance phone service, making it the latest to ...More
    June 1, 2000 By Khali Henderson
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  • Long Distance - BGII Signs to Serve as Master Agent for PDS
    Posted: 06/2000 BGII Signs to Serve as Master Agent for PDSBGI Inc. (www.bgicorp.com), a distributor of prepaid, long-distance phone cards and machines that distribute prepaid phone cards, has signed a contract to become an independent master agent for the MaxTel USAOne ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Business News - It's a DSL Life,Forum Campaign Says
    Posted: 06/2000 It's a DSL Life,Forum Campaign SaysDSL Forum (www.adsl.com), a nonprofit organization of more than 300 global telecommunications industry leaders and service and equipment providers, unveiled its Mindshare Awareness Campaign promoting the benefits of DSL ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Wireless - Texas Pacific Group Invests in Gemplus
    Posted: 06/2000 Texas Pacific Group Invests in GemplusTexas Pacific Group, an international private equity firm, will invest between $300 and $500 million in equity into Gemplus (www.gemplus.com), a provider of smart card-based solutions and technologies.Texas Pacific Group ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Wireless - Boston Communications Group Reaches 2 Million Subscribers
    Posted: 06/2000 Boston Communications Group Reaches 2 Million SubscribersBoston Communications Group Inc. (www.bcgi.net), a provider of prepaid services to wireless carriers in North and South America, has doubled its prepaid wireless subscriber base during the past year, ...More
    June 1, 2000
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  • Romancing the Phone
    Posted: 06/2000 Romancing the Phone By Graham SeabrookIt is very easy to underestimate the power and reach of the traditional phone system. We are all familiar with how to connect successfully to just about anyone in the world--finding, keeping and dialing phone numbers; ...More
    June 1, 2000
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