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Editor’s Note: We’d like to let you know of some changes affecting this newsletter. From Nov. 8, this newsletter will become Network World’s WAN News Alert. We will continue to bring you the week’s service provider and carrier headlines, but we will also link you to news and analysis of issues surrounding the wide area. As the focus of this newsletter widens to embrace the WAN, we will be sending you this newsletter twice a week – on Wednesdays and Fridays. We hope you will continue to enjoy the newsletter and we thank you for reading.
FCC delays decision on AT&T-Bellsouth merger again, 11/03/06
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has once again delayed its decision on AT&T Corp.’s proposed acquisition of BellSouth.
FCC lumps broadband over power lines with DSL, cable modem services, 11/03/06
The FCC reclassified broadband over power lines (BPL) as an information service at its open meeting Friday.
“Friday Night Lights” beamed live to Iraq, 11/02/06
Soldiers based at Camp Al Asad in Iraq will be getting a little taste of home beamed live to them on Friday when the Tigers of Snyder High School take on the Mighty Golden Tornadoes of neighboring Lamesa in a classic west Texas football match-up under …
FCC expected to classify BPL services, 11/01/06
The FCC is expected to make a ruling on Friday that will classify broadband over power line services.
Businesses turn to telecom expense management outsourcing, 10/31/06
More businesses are expected to outsource their telecom expense management (TEM) needs over the next two years, according to a report by consulting firm Gartner.
IPv6: Behind the hype, 10/30/06
IPv6 backers have touted the next-generation Internet technology for years, warning U.S. service providers and enterprises that if they don’t upgrade soon they’ll fall hopelessly behind their Asian and European competitors. These worrywarts may …
Opinion: Nix the national broadband plan, 10/27/06
Do you think we need a national broadband Internet policy? If you’re like a lot of readers, the answer is yes.
Q&A: Expand CTO sees WAN optimization getting smarter, more secure, 10/27/06
WAN optimization is topping minds of enterprise IT managers as they look to centralize operations and consolidate data centers. Expand CTO Efi Gatmor recently discussed his take on the current market and how Expand will pump up its technology to meet …
Verizon completes IMS interoperability testing, 10/26/06
Verizon this week said it successfully completed its part of a four-nation, two week interoperability test of IP Multimedia Subsystem network equipment, which was orchestrated by the industry association MultiService Forum.
