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CENTRECOM/ERICSSON TO PROVIDE HIGH-QUALITY IP TELEPHONY.(Company Business and Marketing)
CentreCom, Costa Mesa, Calif., the world's only Virtual Local and Long Distance Service Provider (V-LEC(TM)) has announced a landmark partnership with Ericsson Enterprise Systems to offer advanced V . . .

DSL POSITIONED TO OVERTAKE CABLE.(Company Business and Marketing)
Efficient Networks continued their surge in the DSL customer premise equipment market, once again boasting market share lead in ADSL modems for Q2 2000, according to Cahners In-Stat Group, Scottsdal . . .

PRIME COMPANIES INC. GETS CLEC STATUS IN NEW YORK STATE.(Company Business and Marketing)
Prime Companies, Inc. (OTC BB: PRMC), Yuba City, Calif., has received Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) status in the state of New York. Prime Companies reports that its wholly owned subsi . . .

URBANMEDIA SELECTS SCC COMMUNICATIONS TO MANAGE 9-1-1.(Company Business and Marketing)
SCC Communications Corp. (Nasdaq: SCCX ) has signed an agreement to provide data management services to support 9-1-1 access for clients of UrbanMedia. SCC is the country's leading provider of enhan . . .

ERICSSON/ARIMA SIGN LETTER OF INTENT FOR MOBILE PHONES.(Company Business and Marketing)
Ericsson (Nasdaq:ERICY), Stockholm, Sweden, has signed a letter of intent with the Taiwanese company Arima for development and manufacturing of entry-level mobile phones. The agreement is a part of . . .

NEW EDGE NETWORKS EXPANDS DSL TO MICHIGAN/NORTH DAKOTA.(Company Business and Marketing)
New Edge Networks, Vancouver, Wash., a national wholesale broadband services provider in small, midsize and semi-rural markets, has expanded its digital subscriber line (DSL) service into Michigan a . . .

INNOMEDIA/ASIACABLETV.COM EXPAND INTO CHINESE TELEPHONY.(Company Business and Marketing)
InnoMedia(TM), a leading global provider of Internet telephony products and services, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with AsiaCableTV.com (ACTV) to jointly provide VoIP (Voice- . . .

FUZION WIRELESS EXPANDS ITS BROADBAND NETWORK INTO CANADA.(Company Business and Marketing)
Fuzion Wireless Communications, Inc., Boca Raton, Fla., a provider of fixed wireless broadband services has launched its network into Ontario, Canada. Serving the businesses in Toronto and other loc . . .

MASTEC SELECTED TO BUILD 2,200 FIBER OPTIC MILES.(for Florida Turnpike)(Company Business and Marketing)
MasTec, Inc. (NYSE:MTZ), Miami, Fla., has been selected as the exclusive end-to-end fiber optic network engineering and installation service provider for a fiber optic network along 2,200 miles of F . . .

INNOMEDIA/ASIACABLETV.COM EXPAND INTO CHINESE TELEPHONY.
InnoMedia(TM), a leading global provider of Internet telephony products and services, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with AsiaCableTV.com (ACTV) to jointly provide VoIP (Voice- . . .

FUZION WIRELESS EXPANDS ITS BROADBAND NETWORK INTO CANADA.
Fuzion Wireless Communications, Inc., Boca Raton, Fla., a provider of fixed wireless broadband services has launched its network into Ontario, Canada. Serving the businesses in Toronto and other loc . . .

MASTEC SELECTED TO BUILD 2,200 FIBER OPTIC MILES.
MasTec, Inc. (NYSE:MTZ), Miami, Fla., has been selected as the exclusive end-to-end fiber optic network engineering and installation service provider for a fiber optic network along 2,200 miles of F . . .

COPPER MOUNTAIN SPEEDS MULTI-TENNANT UNIT DSL START-UPS.
Copper Mountain Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq:CMTN), Palo Alto, a leading provider of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) equipment solutions for business and residential users, has introduced a new program to . . .

CLC TELECOM GOES LIVE TO CLEC BASE WITH DIGITAL VIDEO.
VideoTele.com (VT.c), Lake Oswego, Ore., a Tektronix company (NYSE:TEK) and the single source for service providers deploying innovative home entertainment solutions via the broadband Internet, has . . .

IDS TELECOM SELECTS INTEGRIS CUSTOMER CARE/BILLING SYSTEM.(Company Business and Marketing)
Integris, Billerica, Mass., the telecommunications division of Bull, has been selected by IDS Telecom, a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) based in Miami, Fla., for the procurement, installa . . .

MESSAGETALK.COM UNVEILS FREE UNIFIED MESSAGING SERVICE.(Company Business and Marketing)
MessageTalk.com, Wapakoneta, Ohio, has launched a complete unified messaging service combining voicemail, eMail, fax, postal mail and pager text messages into a single free Web-based eMail account. . . .

VERIO PARTNERS WITH CLEARCOMM AS INDAVO V6 LAST MILE PROVIDER.(Product Information)
ClearComm, Inc., Clearwater, Fla, has signed an agreement with Verio Inc. (Nasdaq:VRIO), to become a Verio Applications Solution Partner. This agreement gives ClearComm, Inc. the ability to market V . . .

VIDEOTELE.COM HELPS CLEC DELIVER 100 VIDEO CHANNELS OVER VDSL.(Product Information)
VideoTele.com, Inc.(VT.c), Beaverton, Ore., a Tektronix company (NYSE:TEK) and leading provider of digital encoding, demultiplexing and grooming solutions, has announced that Hutchinson Telecommunic . . .

NETTEL GLOBAL DEBUTS UNLIMITED LONG-DISTANCE FROM US TO CANADA.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nettel Global Communication Corporation, Portland, Ore, has introduced Unlimited Flat Rate Phone to Phone service from USA to Canada. Nettel is the first company in America to offer unlimited long d . . .

USURF OFFERS QUICK-CELL INTERNET ACCESS TO CLEC MARKET.(Product Information)
USURF America, Inc. (AMEX: UAX), Baton Rouge, La., a provider of Fixed-Wireless Internet access products, is offering to license its proprietary "Quick-Cell" wireless Internet access system to the t . . .

PAGOO LAUNCHES COMPREHENSIVE INTERNET PHONE SERVICE.(Company Business and Marketing)
Pagoo, San Francisco, the first real Internet phone company, has launched the Pagoo Internet Phone Number, a service that gives consumers a real phone number and allows them, for the first time, to . . .

NAVIPATH ADDS GEODSL TO BRANDED INTERNET ACCESS.(Company Business and Marketing)
NaviPath, Inc., Andover, Mass., a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc., has added a high-speed access service, GeoDSL (Digital Subscriber Line), to its offering of wholesale access service . . .

NEW MODULE ADDS CAPABILITIES TO FULL SERVICE NODE PLATFORM.(Product Announcement)
Atmosphere Networks, Campbell, Calif., a leader in providing onramps to the high-speed optical network, has introduced a new module that adds significant capabilities to its FSN 1200 Full Service No . . .

NEW SOFTWARE HELPS VISUALLY IMPAIRED USE PHONE.(Product Announcement)
Adaptive Innovations, Toronto, a division of Trango Software Corporation, a product developer and provider of call center solutions, has unveiled BrailleStream-LCD 1.1, the first assistive technolog . . .

E-TEL INTEGRATES H.323 TECHNOLOGY INTO VOIP TELEPHONES.(Product Information)
The e-tel corporation, developer of the industry's first standards-based VoIP telephone, has integrated RADVision's H.323 technology into its line of FreeRide VoIP telephones. "As DSL, cable and w . . .

BROADMEDIA INTRODUCES G-PHONE DLX IP PHONE.(Product Announcement)
Broadmedia Inc. (www.broadmedia.com), Sunnyvale, Calif., has introduced the G-Phone DLX IP-phone, a product combining a standard telephone and an Internet telephone in one. Designed primarily for re . . .

ADC DEBUTS WQLX FOR SONEPLEX SINGLE-FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM.(Product Announcement)
ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT; www.adc.com), Minneapolis, Minn, has introduced the WDM Quad Loop Extender (WQLX) module for the Soneplex system, the most widely deployed intelligent local loop transmission platf . . .

DSL.NET EXPANDS TO MORE FLORIDA CITIES.(Company Business and Marketing)
DSL.net, Inc. (NASDAQ:DSLN) has expanded its area of service in three Florida cities, Orlando, Boca Raton and West Palm Beach, making its high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access sol . . .

QCI MAKES WIRELESS CARRIERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR OUTAGES.(Industry Trend or Event)
QCI, an unbiased telecom consulting and management company based in Louisville, Kentucky, is closely watching the wireless industry. And apparently, no one else is, much to the detriment of increasi . . .

USURF AMERICA ENTERS SOHO MARKET WITH WIRELESS DSL UNDER $40.(Company Business and Marketing)
USURF America, Inc. (AMEX: UAX), a provider of Fixed-Wireless Internet access products, including Quick-Cell, has introduced its Wireless Internet access service that will compete directly against t . . .

QUORTECH ACQUIRES NORTEL NETWORKS' MILLENIUM BUSINESS ASSETS.(Company Business and Marketing)
Gores Technology Group (GTG), Los Angeles, Calif., an international technology acquisition and management company, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, QuorTech Solutions, has acquired ce . . .

CITX/EASYTEL TO PROVIDE COMPUTER TELEPHONY.(Company Business and Marketing)
CitX Corporation, Quakertown, Pa., a four-year-old global Internet technology leader providing secure e-Solutions, Web-based tools, platforms, services, and trusted digital environments, has signed . . .

FUZION DEBUTS HIGH-SPEED BROADBAND NETWORK IN ROCHESTER, N.Y.(Company Business and Marketing)
Fuzion Wireless Communications, Inc., Boca Raton, FL has launched its high-speed wireless broadband network in Rochester, N.Y., providing regional businesses with broadband Internet access that perm . . .

BROADCOM SHIPS 250,000TH VDSL CHIP FOR VOICE/DATA/VIDEO.(Product Announcement)
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM), Irvine, Calif., a provider of integrated circuits enabling broadband communications to and throughout the home and business, has shipped its 250,000th Very High B . . .

ANADIGICS SHIPS AMPLIFIERS FOR ERICSSON'S TDMA T18 HANDSETS.(Company Business and Marketing)
ANADIGICS (NASDAQ:ANAD), a supplier of wireless and broadband communications solutions, has shipped production volumes of multi-band power amplifiers (PAs) for use in Ericsson's T18d dual-band wirel . . .

3COM/SAMSUNG TO DELIVER CDMA2000 HIGH-SPEED WIRELESS NETWORKS.(Company Business and Marketing)
3Com Corporation (Nasdaq:COMS) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. will jointly deliver cdma2000 high-speed wireless networks to service providers worldwide. The two companies have agreed to integra . . .

CONEXANT INTRODUCES MULTIPLE ACCESS CDMA CHIPSETS.(Company Business and Marketing)
Conexant Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT), Newport Beach, Calif. has introduced a family of radio frequency (RF) and mixed- signal integrated devices that provide CDMA phone manufacturers with an easy mig . . .

IENTERTAINMENT LAUNCHES WIRELESS GAMES SUBSIDIARY.(Company Business and Marketing)
iEntertainment Network (Nasdaq: IENT), Research Triangle Park, NC, a provider of online games and communities, has created a subsidiary to focus on the emerging wireless games industry. The wholly . . .

CIENA DEBUTS LOW-COST ENTRY SYSTEM FOR BROADBAND SERVICES.(Product Announcement)
CIENA Corporation (Nasdaq: CIEN), Linthicum, Md., has launched MultiWave Metro One, an intelligent optical transport solution designed to expand the broadband Internet in metropolitan area networks . . .

E-PLUS GMBH IMPLEMENTS SOLECT'S IAF HORIZON FOR IP BILLING.(Solect Technology Group's IP billing and customer service software)(
Solect Technology Group, San Jose, Calif., a leader of IP billing and customer care software, has announced that E-Plus GmbH, one of the leading telecommunication companies in Germany, has chosen So . . .

FUJITSU/JETSTREAM COLLABORATE ON VOICE OVER DSL SOLUTION.(Fujitsu Network Communications SPEEDPORT DSL access multiplexer market
Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., and Jetstream Communications, Inc., have signed a co-marketing agreement that combines Fujitsu's SPEEDPORT digital subscriber line (DSL) access multiplexer with . . .

PRISM LAUNCHES VOICE SERVICE IN NEW YORK.(Prism Communication Services)(Company Business and Marketing)
Prism Communication Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Comdisco, Inc. (NYSE: CDO), has introduced voice services to customers throughout the New York metropolitan area. With RED Voice SM, Prism becomes . . .

TELMAX DEBUTS ADSL RESIDENTIAL/SOHO GATEWAY.(Telmax Communications' Xiad2000 ADSL remote access device)(Product Announcement)
Telmax Communications Corporation, Fremont, Calif., a provider of single-pair Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) access solutions, has introduced the Xiad2000 Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) re . . .

ELEC ACQUIRES NEW JERSEY-BASED CLEC, TELECARRIER SERVICES.(eLEC Communications acquires competitive local exchange carrier)(Comp
eLEC Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:ELEC), Norwalk, Conn., has acquired Telecarrier Services, Inc., a competitive local exchange carrier ("CLEC") that provides local exchange services in four states a . . .

CYBERTEL OFFERS PREPAID VOIP PHONE CARDS.(Cybertel Communications' voice-over-IP phone cards)(Company Business and Marketing)
Cybertel Communications Corp. (OTCBB:CYTP), La Jolla, Calif., has now added prepaid VoIP phone cards to its line of Internet Telephony-based products and services. Cybertel's phone cards are priced . . .

GLOBALSTAR USA INTRODUCES SATELLITE PHONE SERVICE.(Company Business and Marketing)
Globalstar USA, Walnut Creek, Calif., the exclusive provider of Globalstar's satellite-based communications services in the United States, has announced that Globalstar satellite phone service is av . . .

COPPER MOUNTAIN LEADS DSL'S CLASS OF 1999.(Company Business and Marketing)
Copper Mountain Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq:CMTN), Palo Alto, Calif., the market-share leader in business Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) equipment, has announced its cumulative 1999 successes. Shipment . . .

NET2PHONE UNVEILS PHONE-TO-PHONE OVER IP IN U.K.(Company Business and Marketing)
Net2Phone Inc. (NASDAQ: NTOP), Hackensack, N.J, has introduced Net2Phone Direct in the United Kingdom. The phone-to-phone service uses Internet Telephony to place ordinary phone calls around the wor . . .

WORLDWIDE TOLL-FREE SERVICE UNVEILED.(Company Business and Marketing)
TeleSys Communications, Atlanta, has unveiled it's unique WorldWide Toll Free Service (WWTFS) for placing telephone calls and sending faxes to/from absolutely every country, Toll Free to the caller. . . .

BIZBUYER.COM HELPS BUSINESS SAVE ON LONG DISTANCE CALLS.(Company Business and Marketing)
BizBuyer.com (http://www.bizbuyer.com), Santa Monica, Calif., an online business-to-business marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of business products and services, has reported that small a . . .