• Ports for Rent
    Posted: 07/1999 Ports for Rent By Ken Branson "I use the word 'incubator,' because to me, [switch partitioning] is a product, not a business. We used it to get started ourselves. We're a carrier; we understand carriers."--Mike Hosley, director of business ...More
    July 1, 1999
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  • CHARGING AHEAD
    Posted: 07/1999 CHARGING AHEAD LEC Billing Remains Viable in Convergent Market By Susan Helen Moran CEO Joe Lynam says he has been spending a lot of time pondering corporate strategy. He knows his local exchange carrier (LEC)-based billing services company, Integretel Inc., ...More
    July 1, 1999
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  • Business News - Teleglobe Announces Worldwide Integrated Services Network
    Posted: 07/1999 Teleglobe Announces Worldwide Integrated Services Network By Charlene O'Hanlon Take an existing carrier-focused global voice and data network; add in some fiber, optical and packet technology; and throw in a hefty amount of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) ...More
    July 1, 1999 By Charlene O'Hanlon
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  • Carrera Communications Selects Highland Lakes'Billing System
    Posted: 07/1999 Carrera Communications Selects Highland Lakes' Billing System Highland Lakes Software Inc., Austin, Texas, announces it will supply in-house billing software for Carrera Communications, San Antonio, a facilities-based reseller of voice over Internet protocol ...More
    July 1, 1999
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  • Local Resale Shows Signs of Life
    Posted: 07/1999 Local Resale Shows Signs of Life By Ken Branson Like Mark Twain reading his own obituary, there are those who believe that reports of local resale's death are greatly exaggerated. When PHONE+ reported in May that local resale was dying--and not much missed ...More
    July 1, 1999
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  • 3G Wireless Holds Opportunities, Threats for WirelineOperators
    Posted: 07/1999 3G Wireless Holds Opportunities, Threats for Wireline Operators By Keith Shank Third-generation wireless technology (3G) is on its way, and wireline operators need to be ready. If you've been thinking of 3G as simply high-speed wireless data, you're going to ...More
    July 1, 1999
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  • New Optimism Prevails as TRA 'Rides the Wave'
    Posted: 07/1999 New Optimism Prevails as TRA 'Rides the Wave' By Ken Branson Last year, it was a little survivalist," says Telecommunications Resellers Association (TRA) President Ernie Kelly, referring to the mood at the TRA gathering in Orlando, Fla., last fall. ...More
    July 1, 1999
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  • ITXC Device Eliminates Backhaul for InternationalCarriers, Resellers
    Posted: 07/1999 ITXC Device Eliminates Backhaul for International Carriers, Resellers By Khali Henderson Enabling speedy market entry and eliminating backhaul costs for Internet telephony service providers (ITSPs), ITXC Corp., Princeton, N.J., has developed the SNARC, a ...More
    July 1, 1999 By Khali Henderson
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  • Debate on Access Charges Heads Back to FCC
    Posted: 07/1999 Debate on Access Charges Heads Back to FCC By Kim Sunderland Just as several interexchange carriers (IXCs) and incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) attempt to help the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revise its access charge rules, the U.S. ...More
    July 1, 1999
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  • Group Forms SoftSwitch Consortium
    Posted: 07/1999 Group Forms SoftSwitch Consortium A group of telecommunications companies has formed the SoftSwitch Consortium, which will promote open standards and protocols and new application development for a distributed set of hardware and software platforms to ...More
    July 1, 1999
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