• 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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  • IPLs in Demand; U.S. Bandwidth Pricing Declines
    Posted: 10/1999 IPLs in Demand; U.S. Bandwidth Pricing Declines RateXchange's bandwidth market was moderately active last month. Much of the supply was in U.S. domestic private lines while most of the trading was in international private lines (IPLs). Tier 3 wholesale ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • Business News - WinStar, VoCall Sign $150 Million Contract
    Posted: 10/1999 WinStar, VoCall Sign $150 Million Contract New York-based WinStar Communications has announced it has been awarded a five-year, $150 million contract from VoCall Communications Corp., Mountainside, N.J. Under the terms of the deal, WinStar--together with ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • Occupational Hazard
    Posted: 10/1999 Occupational Hazard Telecom Careers Headed for Detour By John McMorrow The telecommunications industry is changing and so are its jobs. Industry and occupational boundaries will begin to blur. Changes in consumer demand, markets, technology and business ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • Nineteen Form IP Billing-Standard Group
    Posted: 10/1999 Nineteen Form IP Billing-Standard Group By Liz Montalbano Nineteen billing companies, network service providers, telecommunications carriers and equipment providers--including AT&T Corp., Amdocs, Andersen Consulting LLP, Convergys Corp., Hewlett-Packard ...More
    October 1, 1999
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