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Yellow Pages is Last Respite for Ailing Telecom Companies.

—— http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20020825/ ap_on_hi_te/telecom_phone_directories_2 Struggling Telecoms Sell Phone Books Sun Aug 25, 1:52 PM ET By CATHERINE TSAI, AP Business Writer DENVER (AP) – The latest savior for a...

The End of Ma Bell as We Know It..

…and I feel fine. This is actually pretty funny, for those FOIB subscribers who remember some of the saber rattling that these two were doing against each other only a couple of months ago. This would have very interesting permutations for the telecom biz. -Ian....

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...

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...

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...