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FW: Sell Me a Class 5 VoIP Switch

—— Forwarded Message From: Ian Andrew Bell Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:30:17 -0700 To: PULVER-RPT [at] LISTSERV.PULVER [dot] COM Subject: Sell Me a Class 5 VoIP Switch Back in 1997, while I was working at Canada’s 2nd Largest local phone company (now...

FW: FYI – article in the National Post

—— Forwarded Message From: “Iain Black” Reply-To: “Iain Black” Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 10:19:21 -0700 To: “Iain J.S. Black” Subject: Fw: FYI – article in the National Post This came to my attention this morning...

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...

A Guy Who Doesn’t Get It…

Buried in this otherwise boring (why was I reading it?) press release is a funny quote: “TELUS has now established a strong and liquid financial base from which to continue executing our national growth strategy in the areas of data, IP and wireless”...

FW: AOL buys IIA

—— Forwarded Message From: dennis Organization: Pigsty Industries Reply-To: dennis [at] chimpz [dot] com Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:22:01 -0700 To: ian [at] ianbell [dot] com Subject: AOL buys IIA One of the best goes to one of the worst . . . America...