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House panel approves ‘Net neutrality bill, 05/25/06
A House of Representatives committee has approved a bill that would prohibit broadband providers from blocking or impairing their customers’ access to Web content offered by competitors.
Sprint sues IBM over failed outsourcing deal, 05/25/06
Sprint signed on with IBM in 2004 with a five-year contract that Sprint expected to save $550 million in customer-service cost reductions over three years. Now Sprint says the deal cost the company, and claims IBM owes it at least $6.4 million for 119,000 hours of uncompleted work.
AT&T offering managed RFID service, 05/25/06
AT&T is rolling out a fully managed service that supports RFID from end to end by joining a handful of vendors.
India targets 500 million telephones by 2010, 05/25/06
The Indian government is targeting 250 million telephone connections in the country by next year, and plans to step up to 500 million connections by 2010, the country’s minister for communications and information technology, Dayanidhi Maran announced …
Telephone excise tax abolished, millions in refunds expected, 05/25/06
Score one for the little guy – and the not-so-little guy. The U.S. Treasury Department abolished a tax law Thursday, which will likely result in multimillion-dollar refunds for business users.
Hope for lower prices dims with Eircom buy, 05/23/06
The buyer of Irish telecommunications operator Eircom Group has abandoned plans to split the group into separate wholesale and retail entities, dashing hopes of increased competition and lower prices for business users.
WAN Newsletter: The good and bad about tactical ROI, 05/23/06
For several years, we’ve been talking about ROI as a key component in business decision-making, and in particular, as a prerequisite for making changes in …
View from the Edge Newsletter: Is your phone company spying on you?, 05/23/06
Is your telephone company engaging in spy activity? More specifically, spy activity on you?
Verizon speeds enterprise apps, 05/23/06
Verizon Business this week launched a suite of services designed to help companies improve the performance of the applications on their Web sites.
Backspin: ICANN, crashed in the cranium, 05/22/06
What should concern us is that it is impossible for ICANN not to be the center of a storm of politics, yet the board apparently doesn’t understand it has to rise above that. Without transparency and evenhandedness, the board dooms ICANN and America’s …
