• Regulatory News - IXCs, LECs Plot New Access Charges Course
    Posted: 09/1999 IXCs, LECs Plot New Access Charges Course By Kim Sunderland Two of the nation's largest long distance carriers have joined with four local exchange carriers (LECs) on a plan to revamp the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) access charge rules. The ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Business News - Tellabs To Acquire Netcore Systems
    Posted: 09/1999 Tellabs To Acquire Netcore Systems Lisle, Ill.-based Tellabs and Wilmington, Mass.-based NetCore Systems Inc. have announced an agreement for Tellabs to acquire NetCore in an all-stock deal valued at about $575 million. NetCore is a developer of ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Agency Channel: Agents in Training
    Posted: 09/1999 Agents in Training By Khali Henderson As demand and availability of advanced services--Internet access, frame relay, digital subscriber lines (DSLs), etc.--moves downstream, network services agents are faced with an increasingly complex sale for which most ...More
    September 1, 1999 By Khali Henderson
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  • Business News - Lucent Partners with New England Voice & Data for Network Expansion
    Posted: 09/1999 Lucent Partners with New England Voice & Data for Network Expansion In a move that will expand the network of Marlboro, Mass.-based New England Voice & Data, Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent Technologies Inc. has been awarded a $30 million, three-year ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Business News - Study Finds Sprint, SNET Still No. 1 Among Long Distance Customers
    Posted: 09/1999 Study Finds Sprint, SNET Still No. 1 Among Long Distance Customers By Liz Montalbano In a J.D. Power and Associates' study recently released, Sprint Corp. and Southern New England Telecommunications Inc. (SNET) maintain their dominance for keeping ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Business News - INTELSAT Unveils Plans To Privatize
    Posted: 09/1999 INTELSAT Unveils Plans To Privatize Washington-based INTELSAT, a global communications satellite company, has announced it is privatizing. In an address to the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, INTELSAT ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Prepaid Wireless: Will the InternationalPhenomenon Come Stateside?
    Posted: 09/1999 Prepaid Wireless: Will the International Phenomenon Come Stateside? By Liz Montalbano Like topless sunbathing, Vespa motor scooters and convenient rail travel, prepaid wireless primarily is an international phenomenon. But if industry pundits are correct, ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Business News - Qwest, US WEST Agree To Merge in $34.7 Billion Deal
    Posted: 09/1999 Qwest, US WEST Agree To Merge in $34.7 Billion Deal By Liz Montalbano and Ken Branson In what comes as little surprise and ends more than a monthlong standoff between two of telecom's most significant players--Denver-based Qwest Communications International ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Frontier Wholesale Services To Offer GreaterGlobalization
    Posted: 09/1999 Frontier Wholesale Services To Offer Greater Globalization By Liz Montalbano The wholesale services division of Frontier Corp. will have a stronger international presence now that the Rochester, N.Y.-based carrier will merge with Hamilton, Bermuda-based ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • Business News - Bell Atlantic Mobile To Purchase Frontier's Wireless Properties
    Posted: 09/1999 Bell Atlantic Mobile To Purchase Frontier's Wireless Properties In a move that expands its North American wireless footprint, Bedminster, N.J.-based Bell Atlantic Mobile will purchase Rochester, N.Y.-based Frontier Corp.'s interests in wireless properties, ...More
    September 1, 1999
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