• Cisco Scales Routing Products to 5 Terabits
    Posted: 02/2000 Cisco Scales Routing Products to 5 Terabits BY CHARLOTTE WOLTER n an effort to provide flexible pipes for what it sees as the coming growth waves in data networking, Cisco Systems Inc. (www.cisco.com) has unveiled a strategy to make its core network routing ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • FCC Order Gives ILECs an Edge over Resellers
    Posted:  02/2000 FCC Order Gives ILECs an Edge over Resellers BY KIM SUNDERLAND In what resellers hail as a major victory for their industry, the FCC (www.fcc.gov) has ordered ILECs to make x digital subscriber line (xDSL)-based advanced services available at wholesale ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Cost-Conscious Carriers Consider Used CO Equipment
    Posted: 02/2000 Cost-Conscious Carriers Consider Used CO Equipment By Ken Branson Let's say you're a new competitive carrier with a bit of a network and a growing customer base. You want to expand your capacity in a given market, but to do this you need some more switching. ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • NEXTLINK and Concentric to Merge in $2.9 BillionStock Swap
    Posted: 03/2000 NEXTLINK and Concentric to Merge in $2.9 Billion Stock Swap NEXTLINK Communications Inc. (www.nextlink.com) and Concentric Network Corp. (www.concentric.com) have agreed to merge in a stock-for-stock deal worth $2.9 billion. Officials of the companies say ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • MCI WorldCom Vows to Compete for'All-Distance' Market in New York
    Posted: 03/2000 MCI WorldCom Vows to Compete for 'All-Distance' Market in New York BY LIZ MONTALBANO Although regulators have not approved the planned merger between MCI WorldCom Inc. (www.wcom.com) and Sprint Corp. (www.sprint.com) yet, the former already pledges the ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Prepaid Wireless
    Posted: 03/2000 Prepaid Wireless CellularPhones.com Offers Prepaid Cellular, Paging on 'Net CellularPhones.com Inc. (CPI, www.cellularphones.com), an e-commerce retailer that offers cellular phone products, accessories and service plans has added new services to its ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • For Whom the Bell InterLATA Tolls
    Posted: 02/2000 For Whom the Bell InterLATA Tolls Undoubtedly the biggest telecom news of 1999 was the FCC's late December OK to let Bell Atlantic (www.bell-atl.com) into in-region long distance in New York state. I can't help thinking that this historic FCC (www.fcc.gov) ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Consumer Disclosure: Next Step for Phone CardMarketers
    Posted: 03/2000 Consumer Disclosure: Next Step for Phone Card Marketers By Howard Segermark Consulting firm ATLANTIC-ACM (www.atlantic-acm.com) predicts that in 2000, approximately $5 billion worth of phone cards will be sold in the United States alone. That's practically ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • No Spectrum, No Deal: Court Puts NextWave Future InDoubt
    Posted: 02/2000 No Spectrum, No Deal: Court Puts NextWave Future In Doubt By Ken Branson What had appeared originally as a boost for financially strapped NextWave Telecom Inc. (www.nextwavetel.com) has turned into a bust. NextWave Telecom's problems began after it paid too ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Prepaid Local
    Posted: 03/2000 Prepaid Local Rent-Way Invests in Prepaid Local Provider By Liz Montalbano Rent-Way Inc. (www.rentway.com), the second-largest operator of rental-purchase stores in the United States, has acquired a 49 percent interest in dPi Teleconnect LLC ...More
    February 1, 2000
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