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.
After 31/2 years of legal wrangling, a federal appeals court late Friday upheld a 1996 decision by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ordering long-distance carriers to stop filing tariffs with the government.
Ever since Qwest Communications International Inc. won a bidding war against Global Crossing Ltd. last July to buy US West Inc., Qwest officials have boasted that this is a different kind of telecom merger.
Bolstering its image as a carrier unshackled by legacy systems, Qwest Communications International Inc. this week for the first time will present users a unified set of Web-based tools to manage nearly all their telecom services.
Government agencies may be putting MCI WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. through the wringer on their proposed merger, but the companies are getting support from one group: their shareholders.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has told MCI WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. that it can't move forward on their merger application until they present yet more data on long-distance and Internet market shares.
One of the country's emerging fixed-wireless local-loop carriers is speeding up changes it plans for the way it reaches users because its key investor is buying a Bell carrier.
If we're finally on the cusp of a tremendous leap forward in terms of inexpensive broadband access to WANs and the Internet, how can you take advantage of it?
Behind the scenes of Qwest Communications International Inc.'s pending merger with US West Inc., Qwest officials are expecting big operational and marketing headaches when they spin off their long-distance business in the US West territory.
International telecommunications prices may be falling, but the U.S. government is not satisfied that all its trading partners are doing all they can to spur voice and data competition.
Multinational corporations with locations in countries other than the ones usually targeted by global carriers now have a new frame relay option from international carrier Equant.
Can there be too many telecom competitors and not enough telecom competition? A reader raises this paradoxical but valid possibility.
All right, all you frame relay users who have been sneaking voice traffic onto the network. It's safe to come out now and show your faces - the carriers know you're doing it. Here in 2000, some of them will even help you at it. Your challenge, now that voice over frame relay is well established, is to know where the carrier's help is needed and where it's not. Some experts say the appearance of "priority" permanent virtual circuits (PVC), which provide a red-carpet ride for voice across the frame relay net, is just a marketing gimmick that defeats the whole purpose of interweaving voice and data traffic.
Carriers who aren't really ready to serve customers in a particular geographic area will no longer be able to reserve blocks of telephone numbers, according to new government rules just released.
MCI WorldCom Inc. this week jumped into the hosted e-mail applications business with the help of Critical Path Inc., a major messaging vendor in San Francisco.