• 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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  • Rights-of-Way Rifts Sidetrack Long DistanceCarriers
    Posted: 09/1999 Rights-of-Way Rifts Sidetrack Long Distance Carriers By Kim Sunderland Abandoned railroad right-of-way property has put the nation's largest long distance carriers on a fast track to the courthouse steps in an issue that's gaining speed and notoriety ...More
    September 1, 1999
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  • SONET Turns Data-Friendly
    Posted: 09/1999 SONET Turns Data-Friendly By Charlotte Wolter and Peter Lambert Optical transport technologies rapidly are becoming more friendly to emerging data services, and new data-optimized optical equipment emerging this year also is proving interoperable across ...More
    September 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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