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AOL tests Instant Messaging with Lotus..

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/cn/20010814/tc/aol_gets_ready_to_chat_with_ib m_s_lotus_1.html Tuesday August 14 08:00 PM EDT AOL gets ready to chat with IBM’s Lotus By Jim Hu CNET News.com AOL Time Warner announced an agreement Tuesday with IBM’s Lotus...

Re: VoDSL Poised for Comeback?

Oops. I need a Glossary when I speak Telco: – UNE (Unbundled Network Elements) — wholesale features present on switches like callerID, Call Waiting, Call Forwarding, etc. – RBOC — Regional Bell Operating Company(ies) like Pacific Bell, Verizon...

VoDSL Poised for Comeback?

…maybe. But it’ll still have to compete with a host of newly-available products. AT&T for example seems to be rolling out consumer services using UNEs (Unbundled Network Elements — reselling features wholesaled from RBOCs) which are all of a...

The Whole Sordid Tale…

…as told to Fucked Company: Another Idealab Company going under? eVoice Rumor has it that eVoice is going out of business. We’re in a similar business and one of our busdev guys heard this from one of our competitors. The folks at eVoice are / were so...

Local Phone Companies Enter Long-Distance..

Us Canadians take it for granted that the incumbent local carriers (TELUS, Bell Canada, Sasktel, et al) offer Long-Distance services to their customers and are the default carriers. Not so in the US, where the big breakup in 1981 meant that the entire LD pie went to...