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Telephone excise tax abolished, millions in refunds expected, 06/05/06
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.
Opinion: Half a tax is better than one, 06/05/06
Great news! You probably heard that the 3% phone tax is finally history — sort of. I’m talking about the Federal Excise Tax, which was enacted in 1898 to pay for the Spanish-American War, and has been charged to telecom users pretty much ever since ( …
Think tank offers ‘Net neutrality compromise, 06/01/06
A new Washington, D.C., think tank has offered a “third way” for Congress to deal with a controversial debate on whether laws should prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against Internet services from competitors.
Infosys develops OSS for BT’s broadband rollout, 06/01/06
Indian software outsourcer Infosys Thursday announced that it has developed an operations support system for British Telecommunications’ deployment in the U.K. of rate-adaptive broadband.
BellSouth expands small business services with data backup and remote access, 06/01/06
BellSouth this week announced that it is offering data file backup and remote access applications for small businesses.
Sycamore faces criminal probe on options, 05/31/06
Telecommunications equipment maker Sycamore Networks disclosed Wednesday that its stock-option woes are growing deeper, with a federal grand jury subpoena coming on top of an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) probe.
Equant name goes away, 05/31/06
France Telecom announced Wednesday that it is changing the name of its multinational service provider Equant to Orange Business Services.
ADC to buy wireless gear maker Andrew Corp. for $2 billion, 05/31/06
ADC this week said it will acquire and Andrew Corp. in a $2 billion stock deal.
Home broadband increase boosts Net user content, 05/30/06
Broadband access in U.S. homes is rising fast, fueling the amount of content users are posting online, such as blogs, videos, photos and Web pages, a new study has found.
Uphill climb for VPLS, 05/30/06
The Securities Industry Automation Corp. was looking for a way to securely multicast market data between exchanges and other financial institutions after the 9/11 …
Opinion: Telco bashing: It’s just their turn, 05/29/06
Some days it seems everything’s conspiring against the big telecommunications providers – even themselves.
Layer 2 VPN services not ready to fly solo, 05/29/06
There’s plenty of buzz about Layer 2 VPN services, especially those that boast the familiarity of Ethernet and the scalability of MPLS. But enterprises at last week’s MPLScon 2006 conference said Layer 2 services aren’t yet mature enough to support …
