• Business News - Eighteen Join Infrastructure Standards Group
    Posted: 10/1999 Eighteen Join Infrastructure Standards Group Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced that 18 technology companies and service providers have signed on to participate in the newly formed SunTone Architectural Council. The group will define ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • Second Phase of Carrier Consolidation Begins
    Posted: 10/1999 Second Phase of Carrier Consolidation Begins By Ken Branson Mergers and acquisitions are always described by the people involved as a "win-win situation" or "the creation of a powerhouse" or some such superlative. However, things get ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • Business News - PNG Signs $36 Million Contract with Qwest
    Posted: 10/1999 PNG Signs $36 Million Contract with Qwest PNG, now doing business as PowerNet Global Communications, Cincinnati, has awarded Denver-based Qwest Communications Inc. a $36 million, multiyear contract for a suite of communications solutions including frame ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • Business News - USATalks.com To Buy Flat-Rate Long Distance Competitor
    Posted: 10/1999 USATalks.com To Buy Flat-Rate Long Distance Competitor Flat-rate long distance provider USATalks.com Inc., San Diego, announced that it has agreed to acquire a Northeast competitor and that it has completed the first phase of its planned voice over Internet ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • Coalition Seeks Fast Action on Access ChargeProposal
    Posted: 10/1999 Coalition Seeks Fast Action on Access Charge Proposal By Kim Sunderland The newly formed Coalition for Affordable Local and Long Distance Service (CALLS), which has filed a compromise proposal with federal regulators to revise the interstate access charge ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • Business News - Long Distance Price Reduction Signifies Industry Change, Not War
    Posted: 10/1999 Long Distance Price Reduction Signifies Industry Change, Not War By Liz Montalbano When Sprint Corp. and then MCI WorldCom Inc. reduced their long distance pricing to 5 cents a minute in service plans contingent on certain calling hours, it was inevitable ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • Pennsylvania PUC Adopts Competitive Rules
    Posted: 10/1999 Pennsylvania PUC Adopts Competitive Rules By Kim Sunderland The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) has adopted new rules aimed at promoting local exchange competition, but Bell Atlantic-Pennsylvania has railed against the decision and plans a court ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • IP Call Control Still Under Construction
    Posted: 10/1999 IP Call Control Still Under Construction By Charlotte Wolter Building the standards for call control in IP networks is an ongoing process, though the effort has reached an important milestone with H.248 Large-scale deployments of Internet protocol (IP) ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • Business News - WorldPort Closes U.S. Headquarters; Suit Filed in Federal Court
    Posted: 10/1999 WorldPort Closes U.S. Headquarters; Suit Filed in Federal Court By Ken Branson Anyone looking for rock bottom, in business terms, might ask the employees and stockholders of WorldPort Communications Inc., Kennesaw, Ga. Their office has been closed, the ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • TAG, You're It
    Posted: 10/1999 TAG, You're It If you've ever taken the time to read PHONE+'s tagline (it's underneath the logo on the cover ... go ahead and take a look), you'll see that it's not only a trade magazine for carriers and resellers, but for agents as well. Uniquely, PHONE+ ...More
    October 1, 1999
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