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Access One Deploys Softswitch in Chicago LATA 358

Access One Inc. (Booth 604) announced the deployment of its inaugural softswitch in Chicago LATA 358. The company said the new network provides complete end-to-end solutions. The product suite includes local PRI, analog and digital T1, standard and digital integrated circuits, metro private line, DIA, switched and dedicated long-distance and toll-free services. These facilities enable […]

Telegration Signs Multiple Distribution Agreements

Telegration Inc. (Booth 112) has signed distribution agreements with seven service providers in the first half of 2006. The company has become an Authorized AT&T Solution Provider and will sell AT&T services in the former SBC 13-state territory as well as AT&Ts MPLS, integrated access and data services nationwide. Telegration also has become a master […]

Level 3 Expands Wholesale VoIP Services

Level 3 Communications Inc. now offers an expanded portfolio of wholesale voice services, thanks to its WilTel acquisition, the company said today at VON. The addition of WilTel’s Feature Group D traditional voice network gives customers access to nationwide toll-free services, end-to-end switched services and expanded international termination capabilities, Level 3 said. The expansion also […]

TNCI Deploys Carrier ID Code

Channel Partners show sponsor TNCI (Booth 515) has deployed its own Carrier Identification Code (CIC) to manage traffic seamlessly to ensure agents and customers of the most competitive rates in all equal access areas across the country. A CIC is the designation used by local phone companies to route traffic to the customers preferred long-distance […]

Internap Relies on FiberNet Services

Internap is using FiberNet Telecom Group Inc. to provide low-latency metro Ethernet transport services throughout New York, New Jersey and Los Angeles. Internap deploys applications over the Web for businesses worldwide and needed a data services provider with a diverse network that could accommodate its scalability demands. FiberNet designed a suite of services for Internap […]

Switched Voice Market Gets a Makeover

The U.S. long-distance industrys switched voice segment is undergoing a significant transformation. New or preferred technologies, regulatory developments and competitive pressures are conspiring factors collectively driving compounded shrinkage in excess of nine percent, nearly halving switched voice revenue by 2010 (see figure below). Beyond top-line shrinkage, however, is a reshuffling of market share within the […]

AireSpring Expands Order-Tracking System

AireSpring (Booths 313-315) announced a major upgrade to Agent S.T.A.R., its customer ordertracking system for agents. Agent S.T.A.R. supports AireSpring agents at each step of the sales cycle, including provisioning, while offering them fast, automated quotes and proposal generation. Agents also now have direct access to dedicated and switched account provisioning activity including local PRI/T1 […]

Fraud Lessons

Fraud, the art of earning money through the unauthorized and often unlawful use of a system, is well known in the circuit- switched telephony business. Traditional telcos have invested heavily to detect and prevent fraud - and for the most part they have been successful. In the nascent era of VoIP, many carriers are relearning old […]

Broadwing, Focal Highlight Merger

Broadwing Inc. and Focal Communications (Booth 611) plan on giving Channel Partners Expo attendees a glimpse of what the combined company will look like following their expected merger. Broadwing and Focal agents will represent all Broadwing and Focal voice and data product lines, such as dedicated Internet access, frame relay, switched and dedicated long distance […]

Corrections

Posted: 8/2003 Corrections The following entries in the annual PHONE+ Industry Directory were incorrect. This is the correct information. Communication Connection P.O. Box 670 483 Port Leon Drive St. Marks, FL 32355 +1 850 925 1100 Fax: +1 850 925 0170 Toll Free: +1 800 798 5616 Contact: Ron McKaye, President E-mail: payphones@commconnection.com Web Site: […]

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