• Business News - MSF Reports Strong Progress on VoATM and VoIP
    Posted: 10/1999 MSF Reports Strong Progress on VoATM and VoIP The Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) says it has surpassed its goals for organizational growth and progress toward defining an architecture that will allow one network--based on Internet protocol (IP) and ...More
    October 1, 1999
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  • Business News - ADDS, MOVES, CHANGES
    Posted: 09/1999 ADDS, MOVES, CHANGES Bringing more than 15 years of telecommunications industry and distribution experience, Brian R. Friedt has joined Telcorp, Hewlett, N.Y., as vice president, alternate sales channel markets. He will be working to attract telecom agents ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Business News - Linx, PCS Telecom Team Up in San Francisco
    Posted: 09/1999 Linx, PCS Telecom Team Up in San Francisco Newton, Mass.-based Linx Communications has partnered with PCS Telecom, Hayward, Calif., to resell Linx's enhanced services. Under the terms of the agreement, PCS will resell Linx services, including its LinxConnect ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Business News - TFC Acquires RFC Capital
    Posted: 09/1999 TFC Acquires RFC Capital Providence, R.I.-based Textron Financial Corp. (TFC), a subsidiary of Textron Inc., has acquired Columbus, Ohio-based RFC Capital Corp., a finance company serving commercial customers in the telecommunications industry. RFC Capital, ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Business News - CBI To Buy IXC; Carrier Turns from Wholesale Roots
    Posted: 09/1999 CBI To Buy IXC; Carrier Turns from Wholesale Roots By Ken Branson John Zrno, president and CEO of IXC Communications Inc., Austin, Texas, already has begun turning the carrier away from its wholesale business, a process he expects will accelerate when IXC's ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Regulatory News - IXC Slamming Plan Won't Work, States Say
    Posted: 09/1999 IXC Slamming Plan Won't Work, States Say By Kim Sunderland An industry-sponsored proposal calling for an independent third-party administrator (TPA) to handle slamming complaints just isn't feasible, according to state regulators. Companies that slam, or ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Opcenter: When the Phones Won't Stop Ringing
    Posted: 09/1999 When the Phones Won't Stop Ringing By James R. Dukart Ironically, one of the worst things that can happen to a small or medium-sized competitive carrier is that its phones start ringing off the hook. Ringing off the hook, that is, because a flood of new ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Moving Corporate Solutions Into the Cloud
    Posted: 09/1999 Moving Corporate Solutions Into the Cloud By Pamela Thompson Enhanced services typically have been structured as independent service offerings by separate business units within a single service provider. In a PTT, for instance, it is common for the wireless, ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Business News - ICG, Qwest Sign Multiple Long-Term Network Agreements
    Posted: 09/1999 ICG, Qwest Sign Multiple Long-Term Network Agreements Englewood, Colo.-based ICG Communications Inc. has announced that Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc. will purchase in excess of 100,000 ports of ICG's Remote Access Service (RAS). Under ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Business News - Lucent Unveils Optics Minus Fiber
    Posted: 09/1999 Lucent Unveils Optics Minus Fiber By Peter Lambert Telecommunications carriers soon may be able to take the fiber out of local fiber optic economics, thanks to WaveStar OpticAir, an over-the-air optical laser technology introduced by Lucent Technologies Inc. ...More
    September 1, 1999
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