BellSouth demands retraction of NSA spying story

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May 19, 20061 min

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BellSouth demands retraction of NSA spying story, 05/19/06

BellSouth is demanding that USA Today retract a story claiming it and two other carriers were under contract to the National Security Agency to surrender call records for a domestic anti-terrorism surveillance program.

Qwest acquires metro Ethernet provider OnFiber, 05/22/06

Qwest this week said it will acquire privately held OnFiber Communications, a provider of managed metropolitan Ethernet and wide-area network services, for $107 million.

Opinion: NSA-linked carriers face tough issues, 05/22/06

Is the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping, as alleged by the government, necessary in the fight against terrorism? I’ve no idea, but consider this: On Sept. 10, 2001, the NSA had in its possession an Al Qaeda message that read “Tomorrow is zero hour” – but …

Sprint Nextel officially spins off local division, 05/18/06

Sprint Nextel officially spun off its local division Thursday.

WAN Newsletter: Designing MPLS networks with Cisco routers, 05/16/06

In a recent newsletter entitled “Beware of MPLS service agreements” we commented that we had reviewed the service-level agreements of some of the …