• Sprint Takes ASP Route, Too
    Posted: 12/1999 Sprint Takes ASP Route, Too By Ken Branson Like its competitors--namely Qwest Communications International Inc., Denver--Sprint Corp. soon will become an applications service provider (ASP). It has formed an alliance with Deloitte Consulting, New York, to ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Telecommodities Indices
    Posted: 12/1999 Continued Bandwidth Rate Leveling RateXchange's index methodology for U.S. east-west bandwidth rates reinforces the market's conclusion that prices are stabilizing. This is a repeat trend identified in the past two issues of PHONE+, as traded contracts on ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Vendors Extend iNOW! to PCs, Cell Phones
    Posted: 12/1999 Vendors Extend iNOW! to PCs, Cell Phones Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif., is partnering with Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif.; ITXC Corp., Princeton, N.J.; and Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, N.J., to extend the iNOW! H.323 specifications to ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • New Agent Programs Launched
    Posted: 12/1999 New Agent Programs Launched By Jill Collins Pacific Gateway Exchange (PGE), Burlingame, Calif., unveiled its first agent program at the PHONE+ AgENt Conference & Expo in Philadelphia in late September. PGE was not alone among the providers that used this ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Is Local Victor After Long Distance's Fallout
    Posted: 12/1999 Is Local Victor After Long Distance's Fallout? Part One of Two By Jill Collins As agents diversify into local services to compensate for shrinking margins in long distance, they are finding this market is not an easy nut to crack. A steep learning curve and ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Wilkens Wins TRA-PHONE+ TelecommunicationsCompetition Award
    Posted: 12/1999 Wilkens Wins TRA-PHONE+ Telecommunications Competition Award Wholesale Pioneer Fitting Recipient of First Honor By Ken Branson Roy A. Wilkens Roy A. Wilkens, who turned a collection of gas pipeline rights of way into the fourth largest fiber optic ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Telecom Companies Make Inc. 500 List
    Posted: 12/1999 Telecom Companies Make Inc. 500 List By Liz Montalbano Five percent of the companies named to this year's Inc. 500 list, the magazine's guide to America's fastest-growing private companies, are in the telecom industry. While the companies vary in composition ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • The Case for Next-Gen Local Loop
    Posted: 12/1999 The Case for Next-Gen Local Loop By Kumar Shah Until the emergence of the packetized local loop, there has been no cost-effective way to deliver the full spectrum of broadband services businesses need by leveraging existing copper loops. Driven by new ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Hypercom, Inter-Tel Form IP Carrier Solutions Company
    Posted: 12/1999 Hypercom, Inter-Tel Form IP Carrier Solutions Company Hypercom Network Systems and Inter-Tel Inc., both Phoenix-based, have formed a joint-venture company targeting the voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) gateway equipment market. The new company, Cirillium ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Bell Atlantic Looks Good to Go
    Posted: 12/1999 Bell Atlantic Looks Good to Go By Kim Sunderland In what should clear the runway for Bell Atlantic-New York's (BANY's) next takeoff, New York's top telecom regulator says the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) has met federal competitive conditions in ...More
    December 1, 1999
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