• Business News - New Carriers Ranked Among Top 5 IXCs, FCC 1998 Statistics Show
    Posted: 08/1999 New Carriers Ranked Among Top 5 IXCs, FCC 1998 Statistics Show Williams Communications Inc. and Qwest Communications Services both were listed as top-five interexchange carriers (IXCs) according to the 1998 edition of the Federal Communications Commission ...More
    August 1, 1999
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  • Recapturing Lost Value
    Posted: 08/1999 Recapturing Lost Value By Casey Freymuth Industry forecasts rarely provide third-, fourth- and fifth-tier long distance service providers with much to smile about. Shrinking margins, bundling woes (such as anemic local and wireless resale markets) and the ...More
    August 1, 1999
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  • Lessons Learned from the State "271"Process
    Posted: 08/1999 Lessons Learned from the State "271" Process By Andrew O. Isar Few things are as easy as they first seem, or so the adage goes. More than three years after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 became law, no regional Bell operating company (RBOC) has ...More
    August 1, 1999
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  • The Big Picture of Bell Long Distance Entry
    Posted: 08/1999 The Big Picture of Bell Long Distance Entry By Kim Sunderland The Bell companies' plans to get into the long distance marketplace don't include just in-region provision, according to analysts with the Strategis Group, Washington, who say the Bells will hook ...More
    August 1, 1999
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  • Regulatory News - FCC, Bells Agree on Merger Conditions
    Posted: 08/1999 FCC, Bells Agree on Merger Conditions By Kim Sunderland Federal Communications Commission (FCC) staff has reached agreement with SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, and Ameritech Corp., Hoffman Estates, Ill., that 28 conditions be placed on the Bell ...More
    August 1, 1999
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  • ATM Key to Bringing Intelligence to Edge
    Posted: 08/1999 ATM Key to Bringing Intelligence to Edge By Peter Lambert and Paula Bernier Intelligent access now may be winning as the service provider networking buzzphrase of the 1990s, judging by the new products--and the emerging new classes of products--touted during ...More
    August 1, 1999 By Paula Bernier
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  • Business News - Lucent Softswitch Wins Level 3's Vote, Envy of Like-Minded Peers
    Posted: 08/1999 Lucent Softswitch Wins Level 3's Vote, Envy of Like-Minded Peers By Ken Branson Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, N.J., has scored a coup with its $250 million licensing agreement for its Softswitch software system with Level 3 Communications Inc., ...More
    August 1, 1999
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  • Push 0+ for Profit
    Posted: 08/1999 Push 0+ for Profit By Jay Lewis Many agents have overlooked selling operator services--a service that can still generate high commissions in the days of falling long distance rates. Operator services are not just for hotels and hospitals; they can be sold to ...More
    August 1, 1999
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  • The Trouble with UIFN
    Posted: 08/1999 The Trouble with UIFN By Liz Montalbano Not only are some of the service providers listed on the ITU website not actual providers of UIFN, information for certain companies is woefully out of date. In 1997 the International Tele-communications Union (ITU) ...More
    August 1, 1999
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  • Utility Subsidiaries Link Networks To ProvideHigh-Bandwidth Services
    Posted: 08/1999 Utility Subsidiaries Link Networks To Provide High-Bandwidth Services By Liz Montalbano Four utility affiliates in the Northeast and Midwest have interconnected their fiber optic networks in an effort to serve rural communities with high-bandwidth, ...More
    August 1, 1999
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