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Alteva Cuts Jobs

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Justifying Security Spending

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Targeting Vertical Markets w/ Cable

This Pulse Digital Issue highlights five industry sectors – financial services, health care, hospitality, restaurants and bars, and retail – that are ...read more

The Most Satisfying Cellphone Vendors

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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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