Nortel to Acquire Epicon
Nortel Networks Corp. Wednesday announced an agreement to acquire software developer Epicon for US$275 million in stock.
Nortel Networks Corp. Wednesday announced an agreement to acquire software developer Epicon for US$275 million in stock.
International carrier Global One Communications Inc. and domestic U.S. carrier Intermedia Communications Inc. Tuesday hooked up in a marketing and network-interconnection alliance.
Can more fiber to more of your network locations ever be a bad thing?
AT&T Corp. late yesterday dropped a planned increase in basic consumer long-distance rates, ending a bitter 36-hour verbal battle with two members of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Don't look for any of the annoying surcharges on your company's telephone bill to go away anytime soon, despite a widely publicized order by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reduce users' costs.
For several years, the marketing geniuses of the telecommunications industry have promoted the largely unchallenged notion that what users want is something called "bundled services."
Because of a quirk in U.S. telecom law, a potentially confusing shuffle of certain users among carriers involved in mergers is about to begin, even though the mergers haven't yet closed.
Because of an odd quirk in U.S. telecom law, a potentially confusing shuffle of certain users among carriers involved in mergers is about to begin, even though the mergers haven't yet closed.
New DSL, cable modem and fixed-wireless services are growing in availability at residential and remote-office locations. But a widespread, low-cost replacement for corporate T-1 access lines still seems to be beyond the horizon.
It was IP virtual private network (VPN) announcement time for several long-distance carriers at last week's NetWorld+ Interop 2000.
Qwest Communications International Inc. has sued an emerging provider of secure IP remote-access services over a recent wholesale defection of employees from Qwest's Southeast regional sales headquarters.
AT&T Corp. this week is expected to announce general availability of a multiservice telecom contract that provides new levels of consolidated account management, unified billing and flexibility in moving traffic to new technologies.
Next-generation phone system vendor Sphere Communications Inc. says it's time for enterprises of up to 15,000 end users to begin thinking about throwing out their PBXs.
After 31/2 years of legal wrangling, a federal appeals court late last month upheld a 1996 decision by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ordering long-distance carriers to stop filing tariffs with the government.
Whoever said legacy carriers are beholden to legacy vendors in their infrastructures hasn't been to MCI WorldCom Inc.'s Broadband Data Engineering lab in Richardson.