Because they can offer around-the-clock monitoring of network performance, improved application performance, and predictable service levels, managed service providers are in a unique position to expand their business in an effort to address the growth of this market. The most significant driver may well be the growth in the number of business locations or endpoints that connect to each other across a WAN. When you compare the growth of establishments to the growth of managed network connections, the increasing need for managed services is unmistakable. |
Being a phone company has been a nightmare over the past few years. |
Bell Atlantic is probably right now going through its Rolodex of as many BellSouth contacts as it has to start the dance, ... It's inevitable. |
Bell Atlantic is probably right now going through its Rolodex of as many BellSouth contacts as it has to start the dance. It's inevitable. |
For a call to a developed country, an extra 25 cents a minute certainly seems onerous. |
I'm not sure this was the intent of the Telecommunications Act [of 1996], ... The intent was not to rebuild the Bell system. With this merger you would have SBC or Ameritech west of the Mississippi, and Bell Atlantic, assuming it makes a deal with BellSouth, on the Eastern seaboard. I don't know that is good for the American public at large. |
I'm not sure this was the intent of the Telecommunications Act [of 1996]. The intent was not to rebuild the Bell system. With this merger you would have SBC or Ameritech west of the Mississippi, and Bell Atlantic, assuming it makes a deal with BellSouth, on the Eastern seaboard. I don't know that is good for the American public at large. |
In the current investment climate, it is apparent that NGN deployment cycles are going to be pushed out several years, which means the gateway approach is a viable means to 'sweat' additional Internet-related service revenues from the PSTN. While unit shipments of gateways will increase at a healthy rate over the forecast period, worldwide sales revenue is showing only modest growth as competition beats down prices and IMS-compliant gear begins to grab a foothold by simplifying interoperability requirements and thereby reducing the need for gateways. |
It will be many years before you see a phone company in that position. |
it's been going fairly smoothly this morning. |
Maybe it would have been a murder conviction instead of a capital murder conviction if this had been disclosed. |
My impression is they would not slow down. The momentum, it seems to me, is clearly on the side of the phone companies. |
Our conclusion is that it is not a reasonable exercise of business judgment to go forward with an executive compensation plan one week before a motion (to abrogate collective bargaining) dealing with one of the main issues of this case, which is labor peace. |
People should be vigilant about such extraneous charges. But this will probably be only a one-time shocker for most people. It won't be repeated because you'll be watching for it. |
The dynamic is unmistakable: fixed lines for phones have been declining at a three-percent rate for the last several years, while the number of Americans opting for cell phone calling keeps increasing. If you are a fixed line provider this trend means trouble. Many of the fixed mobile convergence strategies under consideration end up utilizing a smart phone or dual-mode VoWLAN/Cellular phone that works like a landline phone in the local area and then converts to cell phone calling. |