• Business News - Network One, BellSouth Sign UNE-P Deal
    Posted: 12/1999 Network One, BellSouth Sign UNE-P Deal By Khali Henderson Network One, Atlanta, has made a deal with BellSouth Interconnection Services, Atlanta, for unbundled network element (UNE) combinations and associated intelligent network and operator services under ...More
    December 1, 1999 By Khali Henderson
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  • Wireless Data Gets Personal
    Posted: 12/1999 Wireless Data Gets Personal New Technologies Make Data Mobile By James R. Dukart Smart phones, personal digital assistants and other Internet devices are boosting the market for wireless data over existing narrowband networks. FlashPoint Technology's ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • It's On the House ... Sort of
    Posted: 12/1999 It's On the House ... Sort of By Liz Montalbano Though a free lunch still may be hard to come by, a host of companies are making free communications services accessible to anyone who knows where to find them. Services ranging from long distance calling to ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Frontier Spins Off Voyant Technologies
    Posted: 12/1999 Frontier Spins Off Voyant Technologies Voyant Technologies Inc., a new company providing a platform for intelligent voice applications, has emerged from Frontier ConferTech, the conferencing unit of Frontier Communications, Rochester, N.Y., which now is a ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Reality Check
    Posted: 12/1999 Reality Check It May Be Time for a Regulatory Audit By Neil S. Ende If your company is like many telecommunications services re-sellers, it has not fully considered regulatory issues in structuring the business, nor in budgeting or planning timelines. Don't ...More
    December 1, 1999 By Neil Ende
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  • Act III: Working It Out
    Posted: 12/1999 Act III: Working It Out By Kim Sunderland The Telecommunications Act of 1996 turned 3 years old this year amid a lot of hype over whether the federal agency charged with overseeing its implementation was actually doing its job. As the national law roars up ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Business News - Newbridge Acquires TimeStep, Northchurch
    Posted: 12/1999 Newbridge Acquires TimeStep, Northchurch Newbridge Networks Corp., Kanata, Ontario, a provider of wide area networking (WAN) solutions, announced it has closed the acquisitions of both TimeStep Corp., Kanata, Ontario, and Northchurch Communications Inc., ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Competitors Hang Tough in 1999's RegulatoryFight Club
    Posted: 12/1999 Competitors Hang Tough in 1999's Regulatory Fight Club By Kim Sunderland A new millennium stretches out before the telecommunications industry, beckoning like a bright light on a stormy night, drawing the long distance wholesale competitors and resellers ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • Santa's Not Real
    Posted: 12/1999 Santa's Not Real When my kids ask me if Santa Claus is real, I'm afraid I'll be able to say, "No," and without reservation. It seems the roly-poly, red velvet-clad, bearded icon of my youth has left physical comforts of the North Pole for good to ...More
    December 1, 1999
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  • FCC 1999 Telecom Rulings
    Posted: 12/1999 FCC 1999 Telecom Rulings Proceeding Ruling Month of Decision Bell Atlantic-New York's In-Region Long Distance Application Approved with major backsliding provisions designed to ensure the Bell company sticks to its competitive promises. December (?) SBC ...More
    December 1, 1999
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